Dual Enrollment Program
Would you like to see what a college course is all about? Take an Introduction to Forensics? Or maybe General Psychology? Our Dual Enrollment Program is for you!
Nicholls State University invites you to live the Nicholls Experience during your junior or senior year in High School.
The Louisiana Board of Regents has a program that will pay for the cost of $300 per course taken that the student is eligible to enroll. This course must be on the Board of Regents’ Statewide General Education Course Articulation Matrix and MUST count for high school credit. This does not include the cost of a parking decal.
Private/parochial high school students are eligible to participate in dual enrollment courses, but will receive a scholarship for $50 per credit hour, up to $150 per three hour course.
Requirements:
1) Student must be currently enrolled in the 11th or 12th grade at a public Louisiana high school.
2) Student must be on track for completing the Regents/TOPS high school core.
3) Student must have taken either the PLAN or ACT assessment and those scores are on file at the high school.
4) Student must be in good standing as defined by the high school.
5) Student must have permission from the high school to participate.
6) Student must be enrolled in a course for which both college and high school credit is available.
7) To continue enrollment in subsequent semesters/terms through this funding opportunity, student must have successfully completed prior Dual Enrollment Program courses. If the student resigns or withdraws from a course, the student must receive permission from both the high school and college to continue enrollment in subsequent semesters/terms.
8 ) The course must be on the Board of Regents’ Statewide General Education Course Articulation Matrix.
9) Student must have a PLAN or ACT Composite score of at least 17.
10) To be eligible to take English 101, the student must have at least a PLAN or ACT English subscore of at least an 18.
11) To be eligible to take entry level mathematics, the student must have at least a PLAN or ACT math subscore of at least an 18.
NOTE : Students may take college coursework and not have it count for high school credit, however must pay for the $150 per course, including the cost of the parking decal.
Applications are available in the Office of Admissions and also the Guidance Office of your high school.
For more information on the Dual Enrollment Program, please contact the Office of Admissions at 985-448-4507 or email our office at nicholls@nicholls.edu