Continuing Education Units (CEU)

Extension programs with course numbers followed by the letters CEU offer Continuing Education Units. The CEU is a means of measuring and recording noncredit postsecondary-level study.

One CEU is awarded for 10 contact hours of participation; fewer than 10 hours are shown as fractional CEUs. An eight-hour conference earns .8 CEU; a three-day short course with eight hours of instruction per day, totaling 24 hours, earns 2.4 CEUs.

CEU provides a cumulative record of noncredit study, useful where employers, relicensure agencies and other authorities require a specified number of hours of instruction for career advancement purposes, and where noncredit study is acceptable.

In addition, however, credit earned in Extension X300 and X400 series courses (professional credit courses), with a beginning date on or after June 1, 1974, is convertible to Continuing Education Units on the basis of one CEU for each quarter unit of credit earned. A notation to this effect is carried on UCR Extension transcripts.