High School Credit Transfer Agreements
STI has articulation agreements with high schools in South Dakota, Minnesota, and Iowa. Articulation agreements make it possible for students to receive credit for STI courses, if they have successfully completed certain high school course work. Students who articulate course work pay only a small transcripting fee per credit. The majority of articulation agreements also allow students to bypass a particular course at STI to take higher-level course work. High school and post-secondary instructors work together to develop articulation agreements.
They develop the criteria for granting credit. Credit is awarded based on the competencies the student has mastered in high school courses, academic performance, portfolio review, or the results of a written examination or skill test. STI’s staff will make every effort to inform students about articulation agreements; however, it is the student’s responsibility to request advanced standing credit. Below are South Dakota’s Secondary to Post-secondary Articulation Guidelines.
- All students enrolled under the articulation agreement shall meet the admissions standards as established by the post- secondary institute for that particular program.
- To receive articulated credit, the student must have completed the high school course within the last three years.
- For a student to articulate courses after the three (3) year time limit, an assessment of skill mastery will be required.
- A minimum of "B" average (3.0) in the course(s) to be articulated is required.
- No grade will be assigned for articulated credit. These courses will not be counted in determining the student’s post-secondary grade point average.
- Credits articulated will count toward the total number needed for graduation from the program.
- Tuition is not charged for articulated credits.
- Articulation agreements will be reviewed on an annual basis as well as during the program review cycle at the post-secondary level.
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Articulated courses may be honored by all South Dakota technical institutes for those course(s) that have common numbers and titles.
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All articulation agreements between secondary schools and the technical institutes reflect only the transferability of credit between these agencies and not necessarily with state universities. Transferable general education courses must meet CLEP, dual credit or advanced placement requirements in order to be articulated to the technical institutes.