Advanced Placement (AP): Display Equivalencies in Transferology
Institutions may choose to grant students academic credit based on scores received on Advanced Placement (AP) examinations. This document provides best practices that institutions can use to display equivalencies in Transferology®.
In this article:
Getting Equivalencies into Transferology®
Institutions new to Transferology have multiple options for uploading existing transfer equivalencies. See Getting Equivalencies into Transferology for more information.
When importing Advanced Placement equivalencies via a flat file, use the following formatting:
| SendInstitutionCode | 99999997 |
| SendInstitutionName | The College Board |
| SendInstitutionCity | New York |
| SendInstitutionState | NY |
| SendInstitutionCountry | United States |
SendCourseCode1 SendCourseCode2 etc. |
AP (exam name) Example: AP Psychology (Input exam name as shown in TES; see Data Mapping (below)) |
TES Data Sets
Institutions that source equivalencies through TES create these equivalencies from The College Board AP/CLEP data sets. The first College Board AP/CLEP data set in TES is from 2012. See Data Mapping (below) for a list of all Advanced Placement examinations within TES.
uAchieve® Table Setup
It is recommended that institutions that source equivalencies from uAchieve create Advanced Placement Institutional Reference (IREF) and Transfer Articulation (TA) Tables as follows.
It is recognized that some institutions may have business processes that result in deviation from the standards below.
- Contact Transferology through the Help & Feedback button in Transferology® Lab with questions regarding the impact of different standards on the information displayed in Transferology®.
- Where different conventions are utilized, colleges can use the Crosswalk Mappings functionality in Transferology Lab to help display equivalencies.
Institutional Reference (IREF) Table
When creating the Institutional Reference (IREF) Table, use the following conventions:
| Field | Input |
| Source ID | AP |
| Name | Advanced Placement |
| FYT | 0000 00 |
| Lyt | 9999 99 |
The Department Begin and Department End reflect the positions where the two-letter Advanced Placement abbreviation (AP) falls within the institution's transfer or source course encoding. The Course Begin, and Course End reflect the positions where two-digit Advanced Placement codes fall within the institution's transfer or source course encoding.
In the example below:
- The Department Begin is set to 1.
- The Department End is set to 2.
- The Course Begin is set to 3.
- The Course End is set to 4.
There are no blank spaces between AP and the exam number, which means there should be no spaces between these in the transfer articulation rule.
| Field | Input |
| Mask | AA99 A = Alphabetic entry 9 = Numeric entry |
| Department Begin | 1 |
| Department End | 2 |
| Course Begin | 3 |
| Course End | 4 |
Transfer Articulation (TA) Table
When creating the Transfer Articulation (TA) Table, use the following conventions:
| Field | Input |
| Source ID | AP |
| Name | Advanced Placement |
| FYT | 0000 00 |
| Lyt | 9999 99 |
Use the following structure when creating rules:
- See the Transfer Articulation Best Practices Guide for a more thorough explanation of the recommended best practice for transfer articulation.
Segment AP |
Source APxx (use course_num from Data Mapping, below) |
Title Examination title (use course_title from Data Mapping, below) |
Data Mapping
The chart below illustrates the data elements needed to encode Advanced Placement equivalencies in uAchieve® for display in Transferology®. The TES course title is additionally provided for reference for:
- Institutions sourcing equivalencies through uAchieve, who are additionally using TES® to evaluate these examinations.
- Institutions sourcing equivalencies to Transferology from TES (see TES Data Sets above).
The course_fyt represents the first year and month the examination is available in Transferology. The course_lyt represents the last year and month it is available.
uAchieve institutions may use different term codes than those noted below; if so, translate accordingly:
- Example:
- 201609 = 2016 September
In June 2024, the Transferology codes originally used for AP African American Studies (AP94) and Precalculus (AP95) were retroactively assigned a course_lyt of 202312. To align codes with those used by the College Board, new codes of AP10 were assigned to AP African American Studies and AP65 to Precalculus with a course_fyt of 202401.
| course_ dept | course_dept_ title | course_ num | course_fyt | course_lyt | course_title | TES Course Title |
| AP | Advanced Placement | 07 | 000000 | 999999 | United States History | AP United States History |
| AP | Advanced Placement | 10 | 202401 | 999999 | African American Studies | AP African American Studies |
| AP | Advanced Placement | 13 | 000000 | 999999 | Art History | AP Art History |
| AP | Advanced Placement | 14 | 000000 | 999999 | Studio Art: Drawing Portfolio | AP Drawing |
| AP | Advanced Placement | 15 | 000000 | 999999 | Studio Art: 2-D Design Portfolio | AP 2-D Art and Design |
| AP | Advanced Placement | 16 | 000000 | 999999 | Studio Art: 3-D Design Portfolio | AP 3-D Art and Design |
| AP | Advanced Placement | 20 | 000000 | 999999 | Biology | AP Biology |
| AP | Advanced Placement | 22 | 000000 | 999999 | Seminar | AP Seminar |
| AP | Advanced Placement | 23 | 000000 | 999999 | Research | AP Research |
| AP | Advanced Placement | 25 | 000000 | 999999 | Chemistry | AP Chemistry |
| AP | Advanced Placement | 28 | 000000 | 999999 | Chinese Language & Culture | AP Chinese Language and Culture |
| AP | Advanced Placement | 31 | 000000 | 999999 | Computer Science A | AP Computer Science A |
| AP | Advanced Placement | 32 | 201609 | 999999 | Computer Science Principles | AP Computer Science Principles |
| AP | Advanced Placement | 33 | 000000 | 200906 | Computer Science AB | N/A |
| AP | Advanced Placement | 34 | 000000 | 999999 | Microeconomics | AP Microeconomics |
| AP | Advanced Placement | 35 | 000000 | 999999 | Macroeconomics | AP Macroeconomics |
| AP | Advanced Placement | 36 | 000000 | 999999 | English Language & Composition | AP English Language and Composition |
| AP | Advanced Placement | 37 | 000000 | 999999 | English Literature & Composition | AP English Literature and Composition |
| AP | Advanced Placement | 40 | 000000 | 999999 | Environmental Science | AP Environmental Science |
| AP | Advanced Placement | 43 | 000000 | 999999 | European History | AP European History |
| AP | Advanced Placement | 48 | 000000 | 999999 | French Language & Culture | AP French Language and Culture |
| AP | Advanced Placement | 51 | 000000 | 200906 | French Literature | N/A |
| AP | Advanced Placement | 53 | 000000 | 999999 | Human Geography | AP Human Geography |
| AP | Advanced Placement | 55 | 000000 | 999999 | German Language & Culture | AP German Language and Culture |
| AP | Advanced Placement | 57 | 000000 | 999999 | United States Government & Politics | AP United States Government and Politics |
| AP | Advanced Placement | 58 | 000000 | 999999 | Comparative Government & Politics | AP Comparative Government and Politics |
| AP | Advanced Placement | 59 | 000000 | 200606 | International English Languag | N/A |
| AP | Advanced Placement | 60 | 000000 | 999999 | Latin | AP Latin |
| AP | Advanced Placement | 61 | 000000 | 200906 | Latin: Literature | N/A |
| AP | Advanced Placement | 62 | 000000 | 999999 | Italian Language & Culture | AP Italian Language and Culture |
| AP | Advanced Placement | 64 | 000000 | 999999 | Japanese Language & Culture | AP Japanese Language and Culture |
| AP | Advanced Placement | 65 | 202401 | 999999 | Precalculus | AP Precalculus |
| AP | Advanced Placement | 66 | 000000 | 999999 | Calculus AB | AP Calculus AB |
| AP | Advanced Placement | 68 | 000000 | 999999 | Calculus BC | AP Calculus BC |
| AP | Advanced Placement | 75 | 000000 | 999999 | Music Theory | AP Music Theory |
| AP | Advanced Placement | 76 | 000000 | 999999 | Music Aural Subscore | N/A |
| AP | Advanced Placement | 77 | 000000 | 999999 | Music Non-Aural Subscore | N/A |
| AP | Advanced Placement | 78 | 000000 | 201406 | Physics B | AP Physics B |
| AP | Advanced Placement | 80 | 000000 | 999999 | Physics C: Mechanics | AP Physics C: Mechanics |
| AP | Advanced Placement | 82 | 000000 | 999999 | Physics C: Electricity & Magnetism | AP Physics C: Electricity and Magnetism |
| AP | Advanced Placement | 83 | 000000 | 999999 | Physics 1 | AP Physics 1: Algebra-Based |
| AP | Advanced Placement | 84 | 000000 | 999999 | Physics 2 | AP Physics 2: Algebra-Based |
| AP | Advanced Placement | 85 | 000000 | 999999 | Psychology | AP Psychology |
| AP | Advanced Placement | 87 | 000000 | 999999 | Spanish Language & Culture | AP Spanish Language and Culture |
| AP | Advanced Placement | 89 | 000000 | 999999 | Spanish Literature & Culture | AP Spanish Literature and Culture |
| AP | Advanced Placement | 90 | 000000 | 999999 | Statistics | AP Statistics |
| AP | Advanced Placement | 93 | 000000 | 201912 | World History | AP World History |
| AP | Advanced Placement | 93 | 202001 | 999999 | World History: Modern | AP World History: Modern |
| AP | Advanced Placement | 94 | 202301 | 202312 | African American Studies | AP African American Studies (2024-2024) |
| AP | Advanced Placement | 95 | 202301 | 202312 | Precalculus | AP Precalculus |