Placement Tests

Placement tests play a key role in determining your course placement, ensuring you stay on track academically while avoiding unnecessary coursework. Requirements depend on your Test-Optional status, SAT/ACT scores, transfer credits, and declared major.

Placement tests are required for:

• Certain Majors – Click on the individual placement test options below for more details.
• Test-Optional Students – Mandatory for all test-optional applicants; SAT/ACT scores cannot be submitted later to bypass the placement testing requirement.
• First-Year Students: Your academic advisor will create your first-semester schedule; however, it cannot be finalized until your placement test scores are received.
• Transfer Students: To finalize your course schedule, your official transcript must be electronically received by the Registrar's Office.
• International Students: Duolingo, TOEFL, or IELTS scores cannot waive placement test requirements.

Enrollment Deadline for Placement Testing

• Placement tests should be completed within 30 days of confirming your offer of admission. Your placement testing completion unlocks your registration and schedule.

Retake Information

• Retake Fee: $20 per exam.
• Retake Format: All retakes must be completed in-person.
• Unable to Come In Person?
  • First, schedule an in-person retake appointment in the Testing Services scheduling system.
  • Then, email testingservices@rowan.edu to request a new remote voucher from Accuplacer.
• Voucher Process:
  • Once Testing Services confirms your retake fee payment, we will initiate a new voucher request with Accuplacer.

Important: Testing Services does not waive placement testing requirements. Exemptions require official transcripts or score reports sent to Rowan University Admissions and/or to Rowan University Registrar's Office.

Please Note: Testing Services only administers and proctors the Accuplacer placement tests. The First-Year Writing and Chemistry placement tests are completed at home by clicking the blue hyperlink in your New Student Checklist and self-enrolling in the corresponding Canvas course. For details and instructions, please visit the First-Year Writing and Chemistry placement testing webpages provided by those departments.

To view your required placement tests, please refer to your New Student Checklist located in your Applicant Status Portal.