Admissions Information

General Admissions Requirements

To apply for undergraduate admittance to Neumont College of Computer Science, a potential student must submit the following documents for review:

  • Application for Admission
  • High school or college transcripts
  • Additional academic performance records such as standardized tests (ACT or SAT), military credits, certificate of completion, if applicable

All students can expect to take courses or portions of courses online. All students, including both online and residential, will be required to complete an online readiness assessment during the admissions process. 

Applicants are evaluated for their academic potential, technical knowledge, and level of motivation. Students may apply for admittance during all published admission periods. Applicants are informed of their application status after all information has been received and reviewed.

Official proof of graduation from an accredited high school or recognized equivalency must be received to enroll and attend new student orientation.

Foreign Transcripts

Non-English transcripts and documents must be submitted in their original form, accompanied by a certified English translation. If the institution attended was not a U.S. institution, the transcript must be evaluated by a credential-evaluation service that is a member of NACES at the applicant’s own expense. For a complete list of NACES credential evaluation services visit www.naces.org.

Transfer Students

Neumont may award transfer credit from an institution accredited by an agency recognized by the U.S. Department of Education for courses that meet our evaluation criteria. Courses taken at a foreign institution are accepted based on the report of a credential evaluation service. Credit may be accepted only for specific general education college-level courses in which a grade of  C or higher was earned, upon receipt of an official transcript. The number of credits awarded for a course will not exceed the number of credits offered for the related Neumont course.

Transfer Credit Policy

Transfer credit for a Neumont course must be comparable to the Neumont course for content and general outcome requirements. The registrar will review the transcript. A course description from the original institution’s catalog or class syllabus for the time period the course was taken may be requested. The school may accept transfer credits to meet course requirements as long as the course is in a subject area offered at Neumont.

For information regarding transfer credits, see the Student Handbook.

Credit by Examination

For credit by examination of equivalent Neumont degree courses, students may request to take a competency test for that specific course; more information is available in the Student Handbook. You must contact the Office of the Registrar for a current list of available competency tests.

Advanced Placement and International Baccalaureate Acceptance Policy

Neumont may award credit for Advanced Placement (AP) and International Baccalaureate (IB) examinations. For detailed information, please see the Student Handbook.

Military Credit

Neumont evaluates military experience for college credit, based upon the Joint Services Transcript (JST) and Air Force transcripts.

The JST has replaced the Coast Guard Institute Transcript, the Army/American Council on Education Registry Transcript System (AARTS) and the Sailor/Marine American Council on Education Registry Transcript (SMART). JST is an academically accepted document approved by the American Council on Education (ACE) to validate a service member's military occupational experience and training along with the corresponding ACE college credit recommendations. ACE supplies data that populates the JST and performs quality checks on the transcript.

Only courses, training or military experience that fulfill Neumont's general education requirement categories are evaluated from official JST or Air Force transcripts. Neumont follows the ACE recommendations for military transfer credits.

For detailed information, please see the Student Handbook.