NAIA regulations clearly indicate credit-hour requirements for institutions that use basic semester (two terms per academic year) or quarter (three terms per academic) credit systems. There are a growing number of schools, including NAIA institutions, which use a three-term semester model. As the number of institutions which use this system grows, you are increasingly likely to encounter a student who transfers to your institution from such an institution. As current NAIA regulations do not provide guidance to you in evaluating such transcripts, the NEC has reviewed these academic systems as they relate to NAIA academic eligibility rules.
