INTERNATIONAL & FOREIGN STUDENTS

Students who have successfully graduated from an Asian Medicine program outside of the United States and desire to earn a Professional Diploma ion Acupuncture and Chinese Herbal Medicine degree from Golden State University must meet and comply with the following criteria:

  1. Show evidence of meeting the basic entrance requirements into GSU.
  2. Spend at least one (1) calendar year, four (4) quarters as a full time matriculated student.
  3. Satisfactorily complete a minimum of 45 units of GSU course work.
  4. Credit shall be awarded only for actual course work successfully completed.
  5. Evaluation of course work completed may need to include an examination or reports before credit is awarded.
  6. Must maintain a minimum grade point average (GPA) of 2.0 in all course work and a minimum cumulative grade point average (CGPA) of 2.0.
  7. Successfully pass 75% of the GSU Comprehensive Graduation Examination (CGE).

Understand and agree that earning the Professional Diploma in Acupuncture and Chinese Herbal Medicine at Golden State University as a foreign student does not mean eligibility to sit for the California Acupuncture License Examination (CALE), or the National Certification Commission for Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine (NCCAOM) examination. It depends on the State’s regulation.