AP Credit
AP Statistics Credit by College
Of 143 colleges whose AP charts name AP Statistics, 75 give credit or placement for a 3, 125 for a 4, and 138 for a 5.
| College | Lowest score | What it earns | With a 5 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arizona | 3 | 3 units, MATH 163 | 3 units, MATH 263 |
| Arizona State University Campus Immersion | 3 | 3 hours, STP 226 (score 5, 4 or 3) | Same |
| Arkansas | 3 | Credit for MATH 21003 (at most 3 hours) | Credit for MATH 21003 or STAT 28233 (at most 3 hours) |
| Auburn University | 3 | 3 hours, STAT 2510 | Same |
| Binghamton | 3 | 4 credits, MATH 147A or MATH 1ST | Same |
| Buffalo | 3 | 4 credits, general exam credit | 4 credits, STA 119 |
| California State University-Long Beach | 3 | 3 units, STAT 108 | 3 units, STAT 118 |
| Cincinnati | 3 | 3 credits, STAT 1034 | 6 credits, STAT 1034 and STAT 1035 |
| Clemson | 3 | 3 credits, STAT 2300 | Same |
| Colorado State University-Fort Collins | 3 | 3 credits, STAT1++1B (general credit) | 3 credits, STAT 201 |
| CU Boulder | 3 | 3 lower-division Arts and Sciences credits | 3 credits, MATH 2510 |
| Delaware | 3 | 3 credits, UNIV 166DE (University general elective) | 3 credits, STAT 200 |
| DePaul University | 3 | 4 credits, MAT 242/SOC 279 | Same |
| Florida | 3 | STA 2023 (3 credits) | Same |
| Florida Atlantic University | 3 | 3 credits, STA 2023 | Same |
| Florida International University | 3 | 3 credits, STA 2023 | Same |
| Florida State University | 3 | STA 2023 (3) | Same |
| George Mason | 3 | 3 credits, STAT 105T | 3 credits, STAT 250 (STAT 260 for majors) |
| Hofstra | 3 | 3 credits, MATH 8 or BAN 1 | Same |
| Houston | 3 | 3 hours, MATH 1342 | Same |
| Indiana University-Bloomington | 3 | 3 credit hours, STAT-UN 100 (undistributed) | 4 credit hours, STAT-S 300 |
| Iowa State | 3 | 4 credits, Statistics 1010 | 4 credits, Statistics 2010 |
| James Madison | 3 | 3 credits, MATH 220 or ISAT 251 | Same |
| Kansas | 3 | 3 hours, MATH 112 | Same |
| Kentucky | 3 | 3 credit hours, 200-level general elective | 6 credit hours, STA 210 and STA 296 |
| Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College | 3 | 4 hours, EXST 2201 or ISDS 2000 | Same |
| Miami University-Oxford | 3 | 4 hours, STA 261 | Same |
| Mississippi State University | 3 | 3 hours, ST 2113 | Same |
| NC State | 3 | 3 hours, ST 311 | Same |
| New Hampshire | 3 | 4 credits, Quantitative Reasoning (QR) credit; consult with advisor | Same |
| North Texas | 3 | 3 hours, MATH 1680 | Same |
| Ohio State | 3 | Statistics 1450 (3) | Statistics 2450 (3) (score 4+) |
| Ole Miss | 3 | 3 hours, MATH 1150 | Same |
| Oregon State University | 3 | 4 credits, ST 243Z | Same |
| Penn State | 3 | Statistics 100 (3 credits) | Statistics 200 (4 credits) (grade of four or five) |
| Purdue | 3 | STAT 1XXXX (undistributed credit) | STAT 30100 (score 4 or 5) |
| San Diego State | 3 | 3 units, STAT 250 | Same |
| San Jose State University | 3 | 3 units, STAT 95 or SOCI 15 or PH 67 | Same |
| Stony Brook | 3 | 3 credits, AMS 102 | Same |
| Syracuse University | 3 | 3 or 4 credits, MAT 221 | Same |
| Temple | 3 | 3 credits, Statistics 2101 | Same |
| Texas A&M University-College Station | 3 | STAT 201, 3 credit hours | Same |
| Texas Christian University | 3 | 3 hours, MATH 10043 | Same |
| Texas Tech | 3 | 3 hours, MATH 2300 | Same |
| The University of Alabama | 3 | 3 credits, ST 260 | Same |
| The University of Texas at Dallas | 3 | 3 hours, STAT lower-level transfer elective | 3 hours, STAT 1342 |
| UC Berkeley | 3 | 2.6 semester units; satisfies L&S Quantitative Reasoning requirement | Same |
| UC Davis | 3 | 4 quarter units, no course equivalent | 4 quarter units, STA 013 |
| UC Irvine | 3 | 4 units, Statistics 7 or 8, Management 7, Social Ecology 13 or Education 15 | Same |
| UC San Diego | 3 | 4 units; no UC San Diego course exemption ("None") | Same |
| UC Santa Barbara | 3 | 4 units; one Science, Mathematics, and Technology GE course; satisfies Quantitative Relationships requirement | Same |
| UC Santa Cruz | 3 | 4 units, no course equivalent | 4 units, STAT 5, PSYC 2, SOCY 3B |
| UCLA | 3 | 4.0 units, STATS Unassigned; satisfies Quantitative Reasoning requirement | Same |
| UGA | 3 | STAT 2000 (4 credit hours) | Same |
| UIC | 3 | 4 hours, STAT 101 (IDS 270 for College of Business Administration) | Same |
| UIUC | 3 | STAT 1-- (elective credit), 3 credit hours | STAT 100, 3 credit hours (score 4 or 5) |
| UNC Chapel Hill | 3 | STOR 151, 3 credit hours | STOR 155, 3 credit hours (minimum score 4) |
| University at Albany | 3 | 3 credits, AMAT 108 | Same |
| University of California-Merced | 3 | 2.6 semester units | Exempts Economics 10, Political Science 10, or Sociology 10 |
| University of California-Riverside | 3 | STAT 4 | STAT 8 |
| University of Central Florida | 3 | STA 2023 | Same |
| University of Maryland-College Park | 3 | 3 credits, Lower Level Elective | 3 credits, STAT 100 (score 4 or 5) |
| University of Missouri-Columbia | 3 | 3 credits, Statistics 2500 | Same |
| University of Nebraska-Lincoln | 3 | 3 credits, STAT 218 | Same |
| University of Oklahoma-Norman Campus | 3 | PSY 2003 | ECON 2843 |
| University of South Carolina-Columbia | 3 | STAT 110 | STAT 110 and STAT 206 |
| University of South Florida | 3 | 3 credits, STA 2023 | Same |
| UT Austin | 3 | EDP 308; or SDS 301; or STA 309 (score 3-5) | Same |
| Utah | 3 | 3 hours, MATH 1070 | Same |
| UW | 3 | STAT 290, 5 credits (score 3, 4, 5) | Same |
| UW-Madison | 3 | STAT X10, 3 credits | STAT 301, 3 credits (score 4-5) |
| Virginia Commonwealth University | 3 | 3 credits, STAT 210 | 3 credits, STAT 210 or STAT 212 |
| Virginia Tech | 3 | STAT 2004, 3 credits (score 3 or 4) | STAT 3604, 3 credits |
| Washington State University | 3 | 4 credits, Statistics 212 | Same |
| West Virginia | 3 | 3 credit hours, STAT 211 | Same |
| Bates | 4 | Math 101 | Same |
| Baylor | 4 | Statistics 1380 (or QBA 2302 for BBA students) | Same |
| Boston University | 4 | 4 credits, CAS MA 115 | Same |
| Brandeis | 4 | 4 credits, MATH 8a | Same |
| Carleton | 4 | 6 credits (do not apply to the Statistics major) | Same |
| Colby College | 4 | 3 credits, SC110 | Same |
| Colgate | 4 | 1 course credit, MATH 105 | Same |
| College of William & Mary | 4 | 3 credits, MATH 106 | Same |
| Cornell | 4 | 4 credits (excluding Engineering, Nolan School and Brooks School students); placement out of introductory statistics courses such as STSCI 2100 | Same |
| Dartmouth | 4 | Math 10 credit | Same |
| Davidson | 4 | Credit for MAT 104 | Same |
| Denver | 4 | 4 credits, INFO 1020 | Same |
| Drexel | 4 | 4 credits, STAT 201 (HSCI 345 or MATH 107 for certain programs) | Same |
| Emory | 4 | 3 credit hours; Emory awards elective credit that does not count towards the major | Same |
| George Washington | 4 | 3 credits, STAT 1051 | Same |
| Gonzaga | 4 | 3 credits, Math 121 | Same |
| Grinnell College | 4 | 4 credits as SST-115 | Same |
| Hamilton | 4 | Placement into MATH 254; credit for MATH 152 after MATH 254 with a grade of C- or better | Same |
| Howard | 4 | 4 credits, MATH 009 | Same |
| Iowa | 4 | 4 s.h., duplicates STAT:1010, STAT:1020 and STAT:1030 | Same |
| Johns Hopkins | 4 | 4 credits, EN.553.111 | Same |
| Lehigh | 4 | 4 credits, MATH 012 | Same |
| Loyola Chicago | 4 | 3 hours, STAT 103 | Same |
| Marquette | 4 | 3 credits, MATH 1700 | Same |
| Michigan | 4 | Stats 180, 3 credit hours (score 4 or 5) | Same |
| Michigan State | 4 | 4 credits, STT 200 | Same |
| Northeastern | 4 | 4 SH, MATH2280 (Statistics and Software) | Same |
| Northwestern | 4 | 1 unit (STAT 210-0) | Same |
| NYU | 4 | 4 credits, PSYCH-UA 10 | Same |
| Pitt | 4 | 3 credits, STAT 0800 | Same |
| Rice | 4 | 4 credit hours, STAT 180 | Same |
| Rochester | 4 | Credit for STAT 180 | Same |
| RPI | 4 | 4 credits, MGMT 2100 | Same |
| Rutgers University-New Brunswick | 4 | 01:960:211, 3 credits (score 4 or 5) | Same |
| Santa Clara | 4 | 4 quarter units, MATH 8 or OMIS 40 depending on school | Same |
| Seton Hall University | 4 | 3 credits, MATH 1101 | Same |
| Southern Methodist University | 4 | 3 hours, STAT 2331 | Same |
| Swarthmore | 4 | 1 credit, equals STAT 011 | Same |
| The University of Tennessee-Knoxville | 4 | STAT 201 | Same |
| Tufts | 4 | 3 credits, MATH 0021 | Same |
| Tulane | 4 | 3 credit hours, MATH 1010 | Same |
| UConn | 4 | 4 credits, STAT 1100Q | Same |
| University of Massachusetts-Amherst | 4 | 4 credits, Stats 240 | Same |
| University of Minnesota-Twin Cities | 4 | 4 credits, Statistics 1001 | Same |
| USC | 4 | 4 semester units of elective credit; satisfies GE-F: Quantitative Reasoning | Same |
| UVA | 4 | 3 credits for STAT 1120 (College) | 4 credits for STAT 2120 (College) |
| Vanderbilt | 4 | 3 credit hours, MATH 1010: Probability and Statistical Inference (no credit awarded for engineering students) | Same |
| Vermont | 4 | 3 credits, STAT 1110 | 3 credits, STAT 1410 |
| Villanova | 4 | 3 credits, STAT 1230 or CSC 2300 | Same |
| Wake Forest | 4 | 3 hours, STA 111 | Same |
| Barnard College | 5 | 3 points; exemption from STAT W1111/UN1101 | Same |
| Boston College | 5 | 3 advanced placement units; fulfills Business Statistics Requirement for CSOM | Same |
| Carnegie Mellon University | 5 | 9 units, 36-200, Reasoning with Data | Same |
| Case Western | 5 | 3 credit hours, STAT 201 | Same |
| Columbia | 5 | 3 points of credit | Same |
| Duke | 5 | STA 20 | Same |
| Georgetown University | 5 | four credits for MATH 1040 (Probability and Statistics) (CAS, SFS, and SOH students) | Same |
| Notre Dame | 5 | 3 credits, ACMS 10140 (appears on transcript as ACMS 10091) | Same |
| Penn | 5 | STAT 1010 waiver or STAT 1110 waiver (NURS 2300 (1 c.u.), for Nursing students only) | Same |
| Princeton | 5 | Course exemption: Economics 202 (no course credit) | Same |
| University of Chicago | 5 | STAT 22000 | Same |
| WashU | 5 | 3 units of credit for SDS 2020 | Same |
| Wellesley | 5 | 1 unit, QR 150 / STAT 150 | Same |
| Bowdoin | None | No credit; used for course placement only | |
| Brown | None | No credit | |
| Georgia Tech | None | No credit | |
| MIT | None | No credit | |
| Stanford University | None | No credit |
Frequently asked questions
Do colleges give credit for a 3 on AP Statistics?
75 of the 143 colleges listed here do. 125 accept a 4, and 138 accept a 5. 5 give nothing for this exam at any score.
Does a 5 on AP Statistics earn more than a 4?
At some colleges, yes. The last column of the table shows where a 5 earns more credit or a higher course than the minimum score does.
Each row was read from the college’s own registrar, catalog, or admissions page and last checked 2026-10-08. Colleges whose pages do not name this exam are left out. Confirm with the college before you plan around it.
