CAPE Equivalency Chart

Fontecha Institute(Hialeah) Caribbean Advanced Proficiency Examinations (CAPE) Equivalency Chart

Students may receive 6 credit hours of advanced standing for each of the following
CAPE courses, if they achieve grades of I, II or III.

CAPE subjects approved for credit:

CAPE Subjects Examined	Equivalent Fontecha Institute(Hialeah) Credit
Accounting	ACCT 2241 and ACCT 2242
Biology	BIOL 1201 and SCIE 1901
Caribbean Studies	SSCI 1901
Chemistry	SCIE 1902 and SCIE 1903
Communication Studies	ARTS 1901
Economics	ECON 1201 and ECON 1202
Entrepreneurship	MGMT 1901 and MGMT 1902
Environmental Science	ENVS 1200 and ENVS 1901
French	FREN 2901 and FREN 2902
Law	SSCI 1902 and SSCI 1903
Literature in English	ENGL 1205 and ENGL 1901
Management of Business	MGMT 1281 and BUSI 1903
Physics	PHYS 1000 and PHYS 1001
Pure Mathematics	MATH 1210 and SCIE 1904
Sociology	SOCI 1210 ad SOCI 1901
Spanish	SPAN 1100 (6)

Each of the above FIH’s courses counts as three credit hours with the exception of SPAN 1100 which counts as six credit hours.

Credit for CAPE examined subjects, not listed above but with a grade of I, II or III will be determined on a case-by-case basis. Both units, one and two must be completed to be considered for transfer credit.

Note: Official transcripts for both units one and two are required. Credit is not awarded on the basis of interim school, predicted or mock results. In addition, students have the choice of refusing credits.

Revised October 2017