Statistics for college credit: AP, DSST or a course

No. CLEP's math exams are Calculus, College Algebra, College Mathematics and Precalculus. College Mathematics, written for nonmathematics majors, gives 15% of its questions to data analysis and statistics, so it is a general math exam, not a statistics course; ask your college before counting it as statistics.

Cheaper than a single course, yes, when your college takes it. The DSST fee is $100 per exam, plus any fee the test site charges, and ACE recommends 3 semester hours for a score of 400. You sit it at an authorized test center, mostly on college campuses: 100 questions in two hours. A course costs more but teaches the subject, with lessons and practice before the final.

College Board describes it as the equivalent of “a one-semester, introductory, non-calculus-based college course in statistics”, with a first-year algebra course recommended first. AP scores run 1 to 5, and College Board says many U.S. colleges grant credit or placement for 3 and above, but each college decides. It is taken in high school, with exams in May.

Principles of Statistics (Statistics 101) is a self-paced online course that covers statistics for business: data and graphs, probability, distributions, confidence intervals, hypothesis tests and regression.

NCCRS recommends 3 semester hours, lower division, in Mathematics among other subjects; ACE recommends 3 (ACE ID UPIS-0003).

Its syllabus has 14 chapters and 67 instructional hours. It is self-paced, so you finish as fast or as slow as you want.

100 multiple-choice questions, counting for 50% of the grade.

Quizzes 20%, the assignment 30%, the final exam 50%. A pass is 70 or more.

The syllabus lists Illowsky, Barbara, and Susan Dean, editors. Introductory Statistics 2e. OpenStax, 2023, with other references.

Principles of Statistics: yes, ACE ID UPIS-0003, 3 semester hours. ACE listings run three years and UPI Study renews them as they end; credit you have earned stays valid for 10 years.

Once Principles of Statistics shows 100% complete in your dashboard. Assignments take about 48 hours to be checked, so allow about two days after your last submission; then request the transcript and UPI Study emails it to your college.

70 or more passes Principles of Statistics. Your transcript's grading scale shows the letter grade 70 maps to, which most colleges read as a C.

ACE and NCCRS have over 2,100 cooperating colleges that will consider accepting credits; the final decision is with the universities. For DSST or AP, ask your registrar which score it takes and for which course. Search your school in Find My College. It helps to name the subject: NCCRS recommends Principles of Statistics in Mathematics.