ANU DoCK Program
American National University is redefining how students engage with higher education through their high-tech, high-touch philosophy. Rather than relying solely on traditional brick-and-mortar classrooms, ANU brings the learning experience directly to students—wherever they are.
In our ongoing commitment to student success both inside and outside the classroom, ANU is piloting a new opportunity for high school students to earn college credit through challenge exams. This innovative program offers a flexible, alternative to traditional credit-earning methods, similar in concept to the CLEP exam, but with a key difference: piloting students incur no costs—only their time is required to take the exam.
DoCK Program Overview
- Innovative pathway to earn college credit
- College-level challenge exams offered to high school students after taking traditional high school courses
- Similar to CLEP, but accredited and designed by ANU
- Computer-based, proctored exams
Key Benefits
- Students take a computer-based challenge exam
- Most general education courses at ANU have a challenge exam (over 40 classes).
- Exams will be administered in a proctored environment to ensure academic integrity.
- Students who pass the challenge exam will be awarded college credit for the course.
- This program is neither Dual Credit nor Dual Enrollment, as high school students are not college students when taking the challenge exam.
- There is no cost for the student to take the challenge exam.
- Students must register for the DOCK program at ANU in order for credit to be officially recorded. Upon passing the exam, the earned credits will be added to the student’s official university transcript.
Please Note:
College credits earned at ANU are not guaranteed to transfer to another university toward a degree or certificate requirements. Acceptance of transfer credits is determined by each institution at its discretion.
The next exams will be:
To Be Announced