US Dept of Veterans Affairs

Credit for Prior Training and Experience

If you receive Veterans educational assistance, you are required by law (38 U.S.C., 1775 and 1776) to provide official transcripts of prior education, training and experience at the time you enroll. To assist in pre-registration and assessment of advanced standing, please submit this information on application for admission.

An evaluation of your prior education and training will be undertaken to determine if any subjects you completed at other schools or awarded to you as a result of your military service can be applied to your proposed degree program and therefore decrease your course duration. The evaluation will include training and experience received while you were on active duty and for course(s) taken at an approved educational institution even if the training/course(s) were not paid for by DVA.

Certification of Prior Military Training

Veterans or currently serving personnel are required to provide official transcripts of prior education and training. To assist in pre-registration and assessment of advanced standing, please submit this information at application for admission or as soon as possible after application. Sailor/Marine/American Council on Education Registry Transcript (SMART) or Army/American Council on Education Registry Transcript (AARTS) are an easy way for your service and occupations to be evaluated. These transcripts detail military courses and occupations with suggested ACE evaluations on the amount of university credit you may receive. Similar in format and design to university transcripts SMART or AARTS transcripts are fully automated documents, available at no charge to the service member.

SMART
Service members eligible to receive SMART transcripts are available to Navy and Marines on active duty, Reserve Sailors and Marines, Navy veterans who have separated or retired after January 1975 and Marines who separated or retired on or after June 1999.

Service personnel with service dates earlier than the above should contact the SMART Operations Centre for additional eligibility information.

The SMART website may be viewed at http://www.smart.cnet.nay.mil.

Service personnel wishing to contact SMART directly can utilize the following methods:

AARTS
Enlisted members of the regular Army, Army National Guard, and the Army Reserve may receive AATRS transcripts. Since the Army has removed the restriction limiting AARTS transcripts to soldiers with Basic Active Service Duty (BASD) dates on or after October 1, 1981.

Soldiers with service dates before this may be eligible to obtain an AARTS transcript and are advised to contact the AARTS Operation Centre.

The AARTS website may be viewed at http://www.aarts.army.mil.

Service personnel wishing to contact AARTS directly can utilize the following methods:

Veterans who do not currently possess this document are strongly encouraged to obtain a copy, together with other in-service training records from:

National Personnel Records Centre
Military Personnel Records
9700 Page Avenue
St. Lois MO 63103 – 5100

Murdoch University will review all appropriate records which have been supplied by you and grant any applicable credit toward meeting graduation requirements in your selected degree program. Credit granted will be identified on your official academic transcript.

Credit points requirements:

Status	Semester	Trimester (1 Year Prog)	Trimester (2 Year Prog)
Full-time	12	16	12
3/4 time	9-11	12-15	9-11
1/2 time	6-8	8-12	6-8
Less than 1/2 time	1-5	1-7	1-5

Chapter 30 and 1606 Monthly Enrollment Verifications:

Students are required to verify their monthly enrollment beginning on the last day of the current month.

If your status is full-time, state you are enrolled for 12 credits. You have two methods of doing this: Web Automated Verification of Enrollment (WAVE) click here or through the Interactive Voice Response (IVR): http://www.gibill.va.gov or by calling 1-877-823-2378