AP English Language and Composition credit at New York colleges
Every New York college with a published AP English Language and Composition credit policy — minimum score, credit hours, and the course it replaces.
Quick answer
84 of 114 New York colleges (74%) award credit for AP English Language and Composition at a score of 3. 28 require a 4 and 2 require a 5. The lowest bar in the state is a 3 at University at Buffalo (3 credit hours). 112 of these colleges link to their own policy page below. Captured July 30, 2026.
| College | Min score | Credits | Counts as | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 University at Buffalo Buffalo | 3 | 3 | APC999TR | Policy |
 Stony Brook University Stony Brook | 3 | 3 | WRT 101 | Policy |
CBMC | 3 | 3 | — | Policy |
 CUNY Hunter College New York | 3 | 3 | — | Policy |
 CUNY Bernard M Baruch College New York | 3 | 3 | — | Policy |
 Binghamton University Vestal | 3 | 4 | Elective credit | Policy |
| 3 | 6 | ENG 101 and elective | Policy | |
 Rochester Institute of Technology Rochester | 3 | 3 | UWRT-150 - First Year Writing | Policy |
 CUNY Queens College Queens | 3 | 3 | ENGL499 | Policy |
| 3 | 3 | — | Policy | |
 University at Albany Albany | 3 | 6 | AENG 100Z , AENG E10 | Policy |
 CUNY City College New York | 3 | 3 | HUM 99902 | Policy |
| 3 | 6 | ENG 101 ENG 201 | Policy | |
 Nassau Community College Garden City | 3 | 3 | Eng 101 | Policy |
 CUNY LaGuardia Community College Long Island City | 3 | 6 | ENG 101 & ENG 199 | Policy |
CBC CUNY Brooklyn College Brooklyn | 3 | 6 | ENGL.-1000E | Policy |
 CUNY Lehman College Bronx | 3 | 3 | ENG-1000 | Policy |
 College of Staten Island CUNY Staten Island | 3 | 3 | ELEC 1000 | Policy |
 Farmingdale State College Farmingdale | 3 | 3 | EGL 101 | Policy |
| 3 | — | ENG 101 - Writing and Research | Policy | |
 Monroe Community College Rochester | 3 | 6 | ENG 101 & 900 | Policy |
 Fashion Institute of Technology New York | 3 | 6 | EN121 & EN020 | Policy |
 Empire State University Saratoga Springs | 3 | 6 | — | Policy |
| 3 | 3 | ENGL 101/107 | Policy | |
 Hofstra University Hempstead | 3 | 3 | LA 999 | Policy |
| 3 | 3 | ENG160 | Policy | |
| 3 | 3 | CPN 100 Writing Studies I | Policy | |
| 3 | 3 | ENG 111 | Policy | |
| 3 | 3 | ENG 101 | Policy | |
 Mercy University Dobbs Ferry | 3 | 3 | ENGL111 | Policy |
 Long Island University Brookville | 3 | 3 | ENG 110 | Policy |
 SUNY Brockport Brockport | 3 | 3 | ENG 112 or ENG 1TR | Policy |
| 3 | 3 | CWP101 | Policy | |
 CUNY York College Jamaica | 3 | 3 | ENG 999 | Policy |
 SUNY Old Westbury Old Westbury | 3 | 6 | EL 1000 | Policy |
 SUNY College at Geneseo Geneseo | 3 | 6 | ENGL1TR | Policy |
SCP SUNY College at Plattsburgh Plattsburgh | 3 | 3 | — | Policy |
| 3 | 3 | COMP 1503-Writing Studies | Policy | |
SJSU St. Joseph's University-New York Brooklyn | 3 | 3 | ENG 103 | Policy |
 New York Institute of Technology Old Westbury | 3 | 6 | FCWR 101, FCWR 151 | Policy |
 SUNY Broome Community College Binghamton | 3 | 3 | ENG 110 | Policy |
 Molloy College Rockville Centre | 3 | 6 | ENG 1100 and ENG GNED | Policy |
 SUNY at Purchase College Purchase | 3 | 3 | College Writing IF the score is 4 or better Score of 3 transfers as writing elective for BA and BS degree students. Score of 3 not accepted for BFA or MusB students. | Policy |
| 3 | 3 | EN101 | Policy | |
 Finger Lakes Community College Canandaigua | 3 | 6 | ENG 101 & HUM 001 | Policy |
SF SUNY at Fredonia Fredonia | 3 | — | ENGL 099 | Policy |
| 3 | 6 | ENG 101 & ENG 999 | Policy | |
 Niagara University Niagara University | 3 | 6 | WRT 100 and Elective | Policy |
| 3 | 3 | ENGL 100 | Policy | |
 St. John Fisher University Rochester | 3 | 3 | Liberal arts credit hours | Policy |
 Utica University Utica | 3 | 3 | ENG Elective | Policy |
 Le Moyne College Syracuse | 3 | 3 | Free elective credit | Policy |
| 3 | 3 | Elective credits | Policy | |
 Genesee Community College Batavia | 3 | 3 | ENG 101 | Policy |
 SUNY College at Potsdam Potsdam | 3 | 6 | — | Policy |
 St. Francis College Brooklyn | 3 | 6 | WRI-1100 Writing & Research (Gen Ed- Writing & Presentation) & LA-ELE Liberal Arts Elective (Gen Ed- Creative Voices Across Cultures) | Policy |
 St Bonaventure University Saint Bonaventure | 3 | 3 | ENG 101 | Policy |
 Nazareth University Rochester | 3 | 3 | Liberal Arts Elective | Policy |
 SUNY Morrisville Morrisville | 3 | 3 | COMP 101 - Composition and Research | Policy |
| 3 | — | — | Policy | |
| 3 | 4 | ENG 101 | Policy | |
 Canisius University Buffalo | 3 | 3 | Free Elective | Policy |
 Daemen University Amherst | 3 | 3 | CMP-101 | Policy |
| 3 | 6 | — | Policy | |
 Wagner College Staten Island | 3 | — | ENELEC | Policy |
 Jefferson Community College Watertown | 3 | 3 | ENG 100 | Policy |
| 3 | 6 | ENGL 100 and ENGL 101 | Policy | |
 D'Youville University Buffalo | 3 | 3 | ENG-111 | Policy |
 Mount Saint Mary College Newburgh | 3 | 6 | — | Policy |
 Ulster County Community College Stone Ridge | 3 | 6 | ENG 101, 102 | Policy |
 Manhattanville College Purchase | 3 | 3 | ENC 1001 | Policy |
 SUNY Maritime College Throggs Neck | 3 | 3 | ENGL 101 | Policy |
 LIM College New York | 3 | 3 | English Composition | Policy |
 Hartwick College Oneonta | 3 | 3 | ENGL-AP2 | Policy |
 Dominican University New York Orangeburg | 3 | 3 | EN 120 | Policy |
 Roberts Wesleyan University Rochester | 3 | 3 | Principles of Writing | Policy |
 St. Thomas Aquinas College Sparkill | 3 | 3 | ENG 101 | Policy |
 Hilbert College Hamburg | 3 | 3 | EN 101 | Policy |
 Keuka College Keuka Park | 3 | 3 | ENG-110 | Policy |
 Houghton University Houghton | 3 | 3 | WRIT 101: Writing in the Liberal Arts | Policy |
NCCC North Country Community College Saranac Lake | 3 | 6 | ENG 101 and ENG 102 | — |
 Paul Smiths College of Arts and Science Paul Smiths | 3 | 3 | ENG 101 | Policy |
FTC Five Towns College Dix Hills | 3 | 3 | — | Policy |
CCC Clinton Community College Plattsburgh | 3 | 6 | — | Policy |
 Syracuse University Syracuse | 4 | 6 | WRT 105 & 205 | Policy |
 Fordham University Bronx | 4 | 3 | — | Policy |
 Pace University New York | 4 | 4 | ENG 120 | Policy |
| 4 | 4 | WRIT 1000 | Policy | |
 Adelphi University Garden City | 4 | 3 | ENG106 | Policy |
 Marist College Poughkeepsie | 4 | 3 | ENG 120L Writing for College | Policy |
 Ithaca College Ithaca | 4 | 6 | WRTG 10600 & ENGL 18888 - English Elective | Policy |
 Rockland Community College Suffern | 4 | 6 | ENG 101 & 102 | — |
 Touro University New York | 4 | 3 | LLE 101-102 | Policy |
 Pratt Institute-Main Brooklyn | 4 | 3 | HMS-101A | Policy |
 Siena College Loudonville | 4 | 3 | WRIT 100 | Policy |
 CUNY Medgar Evers College Brooklyn | 4 | — | — | Policy |
 Barnard College New York | 4 | 3 | — | Policy |
 Yeshiva University New York | 4 | 3 | General Elective | Policy |
| 4 | 3 | ENGL 101: Composition & the Spoken Word | Policy | |
 Skidmore College Saratoga Springs | 4 | 4 | — | Policy |
 Iona University New Rochelle | 4 | 3 | ENG 120 | Policy |
 Clarkson University Potsdam | 4 | 3 | COMM 210, Theory of Rhetoric for Business, Science & Engineering | Policy |
 Vassar College Poughkeepsie | 4 | 1 | — | Policy |
 St Lawrence University Canton | 4 | 1 | — | Policy |
 Marymount Manhattan College New York | 4 | 6 | OPEN ELECTIVE | Policy |
| 4 | 2 | — | Policy | |
 Sarah Lawrence College Bronxville | 4 | 2 | — | Policy |
 Alfred University Alfred | 4 | 4 | ENGL 101 | Policy |
| 4 | 3 | WRT 101 | Policy | |
 Elmira College Elmira | 4 | 3 | WRT 1050 | Policy |
| 4 | 3 | ENG 101 or COM 115 | Policy | |
| 4 | 3 | — | Policy | |
| 5 | 3 | — | Policy | |
 Bard College Annandale-On-Hudson | 5 | — | — | Policy |
AP English Language and Composition credit in other states
How we ranked this
One row per New York college: the lowest score that earns actual credit under the policy that applies to all students, and the largest credit award published at that score. Placement-only policies — permission to skip a course without earning credit hours — are excluded. Credit hours and course equivalents are reproduced exactly as the college published them; “—” means no value was published and we do not estimate one. A page is published for a state only when at least 8 colleges back it.
Frequently asked questions
Which New York colleges give credit for AP English Language and Composition?+
114 colleges in New York publish a credit-bearing policy for AP English Language and Composition. 84 of them (74%) award credit at a score of 3, 28 require a 4, and 2 require a 5. The full list, with credit hours and the course each exam replaces, is in the table on this page.
What is the lowest AP English Language and Composition score that earns credit in New York?+
3. University at Buffalo in Buffalo awards credit at a score of 3, worth 3 credit hours, counting as APC999TR. 84 New York colleges in total set their bar at a 3 or lower.
Does in-state residency change AP credit in New York?+
No. AP credit policy is set per institution and applies to admitted students regardless of residency — residency affects tuition rate, not credit awards. What does vary is the school within a university: engineering and nursing colleges commonly set higher bars than arts and sciences. The rules shown here are the ones that apply to all students at each college.
How do I verify these New York AP credit policies?+
112 of the 114 colleges on this page link to their own published AP credit page in the Source column; our snapshot was taken July 30, 2026. The college's page is authoritative and can change between admission cycles, so confirm there before building a graduation plan around the credit.
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Data sources: Each college's own published AP / advanced-standing credit page (captured July 30, 2026) · IPEDS institution directory (names, control, location). Figures are the most recent values published in each federal dataset; cells with no published value are shown as “—” and never estimated. Education does not sell rankings or accept placement fees.