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If your rank is Warrant Officer and your specialty is Operations Systems or Information System Management, you may be able to apply as many as 21 credits toward a Bachelor of Science in Cybersecurity Management and Policy. If your specialty is Finance and Supply, you may be able to apply as many as 18 credits toward a Bachelor of Science in Management Studies. 

If you are a non-commissioned officer, choose UMGC as your home college and receive credit through the College of the American Soldier based on the Non-Commissioned Officer Education System courses and other training you've completed. You may be able to apply your credits toward an Associate of Arts in General Studies. CAS is accepted and supported by ACE.

If you want to learn how you can earn 15 of the 64 credits you need for a Community College of the Air Force associate's degree at UMGC, explore our General Education Mobile program.

If you are an airman completing any Community College of the Air Force Associate of Applied Science degree, many of your credits will transfer to a bachelor's degree program at UMGC. Plus if your program is part of the Air University Associate-to-Baccalaureate Cooperative, you can now link your degree to a UMGC bachelor's degree, maximize the number of credits you receive, and make a seamless transition to your bachelor's degree. 

If you are a current or former Defense Acquisition University student, you can earn a wide range of bachelor’s degrees and undergraduate certificates at UMGC to help meet DAU workforce requirements. You can receive credit for study completed with DAU based on ACE recommendations. 

The program includes UMGC's undergraduate certificates and the following bachelor's degrees:

• Accounting
• Business Administration and Management
• Computer Science
• Human Resource Management
• Information Systems Management
• Marketing

If you have successfully completed DAU coursework, you may be eligible to transfer credit toward one of the following master’s programs:

• Acquisition & Contract Management
• Management: Project Management

DAU Course Mapping for Acquisition & Contract Management

UMGC will apply DAU courses to the MS in Acquisition and Contract Management—totaling 3 courses (9 credits). All combinations possible under this agreement are listed below.*

Take the following DAU courses to earn credit for Fundamentals of Acquisition Planning and Costs Price Analysis(6 Credits, ACM 610):

• ACQ 1010 and INT 1110 and INT 1120 and ACQ 1300

  OR

• ACQ 120 and ACQ 1300 and ACQ 1010

  OR

• ACQ 2551 and ACQ 1650 and ACQ 1010

Take the following DAU courses to earn credit for Sourcing Decisions and Legal Considerations in Contracting(6 Credits, ACM 620):

• ACQ 1700
• ACQ 2020

• ACQ 2030

  OR

• CON 1100V
• CON 1200V
• CON 1300V
• CON 1400V

Take the following DAU courses to earn credit for Strategic Supplier Relations in Sustainable Supply Environments(6 Credits, ACM 630):

• ACQ 230V
• ACQ 265

• ACQ 315

  OR

• LOG 0580
• LOG 2040
• LOG 2150

Take the following DAU courses to earn credit for Performance Based Logistics and Asset Management(6 Credits, ACM 640):

• LOG 211V pair with LOG 3400 or LOG 3500

DAU Course Mapping for Management: Project Management

UMGC will apply DAU courses to the MS in Management concentration in Project Management—totaling 3 courses (9 credits).*

All combinations possible under this agreement are listed below. Take the following set of DAU courses to earn credit for Foundations of Project Management(3 Credits, PMAN 634):

• PMT 0120, PMT 0130, PMT 0140

Take the following DAU course to earn credit for Project Uncertainty: Risks, Ambiguity, and Complexity(3 Credits, PMAN 637):

• PMT 0170, PMT 3400, PMT 3500

*Transfer credit must have been completed within three years of your first term of enrollment in a graduate degree or certificate program at UMGC.

If you have graduated from the Public Affairs Officer Course at the Defense Information School, you may be eligible to transfer 3–9 graduate credits toward the following program:

• Management: Marketing

If you've taken classes through Defense Threat Reduction University, you may be able to apply your credits to an undergraduate degree program at UMGC.

If you have graduated from National Defense University's College of Information and Cyberspace with a certificate, you may be eligible to transfer as many as 18 graduate credits toward a graduate degree in cybersecurity, project management, or information technology.