Exemptions Regulation

Exemptions with credit

Where a student has completed a course equivalent to a required course and credit is given for the required course. Credit Exemption eliminates the need for the student to sit the required course or any other make up course.

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Exemptions without credit

Where a student has completed a course eqivalent to a required course and no credit is given for the required course. Exemptions Only eliminates the need to register for the required course, however, no credits will be given for the course.  To gain credits, another course, at the same level or above, must be done.

The guidelines for granting exemption with and without credit are:

  1. From UWI Certificates (CPA, CSS, CBA)

A student who, prior to taking the Certificate, has:

  •  normal-level matriculation will receive exemption with credit for all degree courses.
  •  Lower-level matriculation will receive exemption with credit for 5 courses or 15 credits*
  •  no matriculation will receive exemption with credit for 4 courses or 12 credits*

*A student may receive exemption without credit for any other degree courses passed.

  1. From Caribbean Advance Proficiency Examination (CAPE)

A student who has obtained Grades I-IV in the following CAPE subjects may receive exemption without credit (Exemption only) for the corresponding UWI Level courses.

CAPE Subjects

UWI Level I Courses  
Accounting Unit 1   ACCT1005
Accounting Unit 2  ACCT1003
Economics [Units 1 & 2]  ECON1000 and/or ECON1012
Statistical Analysis    SOCI1005 & ECON1005
Applied Mathematics Unit 1 SOCI1005 & ECON1005
Sociology Unit 1    SOCI1002
Pure Mathematics Units 1 & 2 ECON1003

Application for exemptions must be made on the Automated Student Request System via SAS.  

 3.  From Other Universities[1]

A student transferring from another university to read for a UWI degree will have to do a minimum of two years of full-time study or 60 credits.

  • Course outlines are to be submitted for departmental assessment, except in cases where the departments already have a record of the particular courses. Any course approved by departments will earn students exemption with credit from UWI equivalent courses up to the limit indicated by 1above.
  •  Exemption without credit may be granted for course(s) in excess of limit indicated.

 4.  From Three Year Associate Degree Programme at Accredited Tertiary Learning Institutions (TLI)

Credit exemption will be granted for all courses that have been assessed by UWI (in 1998) for equivalency with specific UWI courses if a minimum B grade (TLI grading) has been achieved.

[1]It should be noted that first year (Level I) courses in the American Four Year Undergraduate Programme will NOT usually warrant any exemption from UWI courses.