I had to go through this a couple years ago . Basically , the universities position is that they ' re not going to want to accept anything . You can challenge that though , it was covered in the previous replies . First show them your course syllabi , and if necessary some course work must be stuff you did in class , not side projects using the material . If that doesn ' t work , or they have some doubts you can try to test out of the course . Testing out of courses is pretty difficult though because different schools will vary wildly and what they test you on might not be the material you learned . I don ' t think the test route is very practical myself . If the classes don ' t transfer I would just take them as elective credit and take what you need to take .