Special Programs: INTERNATIONAL BACCALAUREATE EXAMINATIONS


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The International Baccalaureate (IB) Program, sponsored by a Swiss foundation, offers a curriculum covering either the last two years of secondary education or the twelfth and thirteenth grades in a thirteen-grade system. Successful completion of the program is based on the completion of course work and passage of internationally prepared examinations. The examinations are written at two levels of study: High Level, administered after a minimum of 240 hours of teaching time in a subject; and Subsidiary Level, administered after a minimum of 160 hours of teaching time in a subject.

The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign will award proficiency credit to new, continuing, and transfer students on the basis of scores from several International Baccalaureate examinations: anthropology, biology, chemistry, classics (Latin and Greek), economics, French, German, history, and philosophy. University departments establish policies for awarding proficiency credit and advanced placement for each score on the IB scale of 1 to 7. Those wishing to have such examination scores evaluated should request that official score transcripts be sent to the Division of Measurement and Evaluation, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 247 Armory Building, c/o 182 Armory Building, 505 East Armory Avenue, Champaign, IL 61820.

The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign may accept, for transfer purposes, IB credit awarded by another institution if the transfer student meets two requirements: (1) the student must have earned at least 12 semester hours of graded college-level classroom credit at that same institution or campus, and (2) the student must have earned classroom credit for a more advanced course in the same subject area at that same institution. The advanced course must be fully acceptable under University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign transfer credit policies. Transfer students who have not met these requirements may request that official copies of their scores be sent to the Division of Measurement and Evaluation. Such scores will be evaluated using the same standards applied to the scores of continuing students at the University.

The specific credit and placement policies for International Baccalaureate examinations recognized by this campus are given below. This information is subject to change upon annual review by each department concerned.


Anthropology

High and Subsidiary Levels: Scores of 7 and 6 receive credit for Anthropology 103 (4 semester hours).


Biology

High Level: Scores of 7 and 6 receive credit for BIOL 120 and 121 (10 semester hours).

Subsidiary Level: Scores of 7 and 6 receive credit for BIOL 104 (4 semester hours).


Chemistry

High Level: Scores of 7 and 6 receive credit for CHEM 101 and either Chemistry 102B or CHEM 102P (8 semester hours).

Subsidiary Level: No credit is granted.


Classics--Latin

High Level: Scores of 7 and 6 receive credit for LAT 103, 104, and 201 (11 semester hours).

Subsidiary Level: Scores of 7 and 6 receive credit for LAT 103 and 104 (8 semester hours).


Classics--Greek

High Level: Scores of 7 and 6 receive credit for GRK 101, 102, and 201 (12 semester hours).

Subsidiary Level: Scores of 7 and 6 receive credit for GRK 101 and 102 (8 semester hours).


Economics

High and Subsidiary Levels: Scores of 7 and 6 receive credit for ECON 102 and 103 (6 semester hours).


French

High and Subsidiary Levels: Scores of 7 and 6 receive credit for FR 207 and 210 (6 semester hours); scores of 5 receive credit for FR 210 (3 semester hours).


German

High and Subsidiary Levels: Scores of 7 and 6 receive credit for GER 211 and 231 (6 semester hours).


History

High Level: Scores of 7 and 6 receive credit for HIST 112 and 152 (6 semester hours).

Subsidiary Level: No credit is granted.


Philosophy

High and Subsidiary Levels: Scores of 7 and 6 receive credit for PHIL 101 (3 semester hours).


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