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AP Credit Search — what your scores are worth at 2,089 colleges
Every college sets its own AP credit policy. Search by school to see the minimum score it wants for each exam, the credits it awards and the course it replaces — or start from an exam and your score to find every school that will take it.
Published policies
86,668
AP exams
46
Source
College Board database
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What does this college give for my AP scores?
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How to read a policy
Minimum score
The floor for that row's outcome. Score below it and that row doesn't apply — check whether a lower row (elective credit, placement) still does.
Credit vs placement
Credit adds hours toward your degree. Placement only lets you skip the intro course — valuable, but it doesn't shorten your degree by itself.
Course equivalent
The actual class the AP score replaces (like PSY 201). This is the row to compare against your degree plan — general elective credit helps least.
The honest limit of this data: these are each school's general published policies. Individual colleges and majors inside a university sometimes set different rules ("Engineering requires a 5"), and policies are revised yearly. Results link to the school's own policy page — confirm there before making decisions. Where we have hand-verified a school's department-level exceptions, the result says so.
Questions students ask
Where does this credit data come from?
From the College Board's official AP Credit Policy Search database — the same data colleges report about their own policies — exported in November 2026. Every school result links to the school's own policy page so you can confirm before relying on it.
What does "minimum score" mean?
It is the lowest AP score that earns the listed outcome (credit, placement, or a course equivalent) at that school for that exam. Many schools list several rows for the same exam: a 3 might earn elective credit while a 4 or 5 earns the actual course.
Why do some schools show no credits for a row?
That usually means the outcome is placement (skipping the intro course) rather than credit hours, or the school awards credit without a fixed hour value. Rows marked "placement only" never add credits toward your degree total.
Can I rely on this for enrollment decisions?
Use it to shortlist and compare — then confirm on the school's own policy page (linked in every result) before you drop a course or count credits toward graduation. Policies change yearly, and individual departments sometimes have exceptions the general policy doesn't show. Digging into those department-level exceptions school by school is exactly what our school-by-school verification is building next.