Nuclear Program College Course Equivalencies

[BPW]

So, I'm attending Penn State for Nuclear Engineering, just started yesterday, and they've identified 90 credits from my Navy experience as an ETN. Now they've waived quite a few Geneds, and a single English course for some reason, but I have a bunch of Chem and Phys credits that are just collecting dust because they don't have a course equivalent. I'm going to go see the Engineering department soon to plead my case, hopefully getting some more courses waived, but I need as much fire power as I can get.

TLDR: Does the Navy Nuclear Program provide any sort of suggested/recommended college course equivalencies for these transfer credits, I feel that if I came to them with something straight from DoD then it'd help me knock out more courses. I haven't been able to find anything, so I'm not sure it exists.

[hamsamich]

Look up on Google - Joint Services Transcript (JST), American Council on Education (ACE).  They've probably heard your spiel a hundred times though, plenty of navy nukes including at least one guy off my boat went that route; I don't know what he got exactly but it wasn't much, EM2.  A school like Penn State probably won't care as much about what the DOD says, they will go with what they've been doing until something drastically changes to make them change their minds.  But hey, worth a try!  I would think NNP stuff would only get you some electives and basic classes with a school like Penn State.  They are a much higher caliber of degree than say a Thomas Edison nuclear technology degree in more ways than one.