Welcome to Portland State University's Challenge Program
***The Challenge Program office staff is working remotly in response to the coronavirus but we are still contactable via the emails listed in the "Contact Us" menu***.
COVID-19 Policy UPDATES FOR PARENTS AND STUDENTS
Challenge is a nationally accredited dual credit program, that started in 1976, for accelerated students (minimum 3.0 cumulative GPA) to take PSU courses at their high schools, earning both high school and PSU credit.
Challenge’s mission is equivalency of experience to the campus course, academically and culturally. To this end:
- Instructors meet PSU department adjunct credentials.
- Instructors have more academic freedom than those for which college credit is dependent on an exam score, and students are not sidelined by weeks of test-taking preparation
- Courses are catalog-listed and in advance of regular high school courses, which facilitate credit transfer and credits that "count."
- Faculty members partner with instructors, visiting their classrooms and coming together for departmental workshops that build a community of support and shared information.
- Class visits to campus familiarize students with a large college campus and student resources such as the library, smoothing the transition to college.
- National accreditation provides evidence of the quality of our program which helps in the transfer of credit nationally.
Registration Form: REGISTER
Spring Registration Deadline is May 15th, 2020
The drop deadline has been changed to May 18th for all in progress Challenge classes.
Challenge Program 2019-20 Deadlines
Term Mapping Reg. Deadline Drop Deadline
Fall Quarter Oct 1, 2019 Oct 24, 2019
Semester Oct 1, 2019 Nov 7, 2019
Year-long Oct 1, 2019 May 18, 2020
Winter Quarter Feb 18, 2020 March 5, 2020
Semester Feb 18, 2020 May 18, 2020
Spring Quarter May 15, 2020 May 18, 2020
Read more about the Challenge Program's History and the benefits of enrollment.
