Dual Credit

Please join your school counselors for a dual credit information session. We will go over the course schedules and will answer any questions about courses you may take for dual credit.  Our UNMLA dual credit partners will join us to share best practices for student success in the college environment. Dates TBD and will be posted in Google Classroom and MaiaLearning.

Contact your school counselor to be added to the Dual Credit Google classroom.  All materials will be submitted through the Google classroom, including the full dual credit application.

What is dual enrollment?

Dual enrollment is met when students take courses simultaneously at UNM Los Alamos (UNMLA) or Northern New Mexico College (NNMC) while still in high school.    Dual enrollment courses are courses that  ARE NOT offered at LAHS.  Examples include, but are not limited to,  Intro to Sociology, Nutrition, Intro to Communication, etc.   Classes offered at the high school are NOT dual enrollment but concurrent enrollment.  These include, but are not limited to, Calculus 1, Spanish, Intro to Psychology, etc.

Dual enrollment courses

• • Tuition paid by New Mexico Public Education Department

  • Textbooks are paid for by Los Alamos Public Schools

  • Course Fees are paid by the student (or family)

  • Must meet paperwork/registration deadlines that are EARLIER than UNMLA deadlines

  • Credits will be reflected on LAHS transcript and UNMLA or NNMC transcript

  • Must meet eligibility requirements 

What is concurrent enrollment?

• Student must pay all costs

• Will not be counted for credit at LAHS (not even as an elective) .  The course will be on your UNMLA transcript.

• Courses taken as a prerequisite for a higher level LAHS course must be pre-approved by LAHS administration.

• Counselor still requested to sign paperwork

For Fall and Summer classes paperwork and information becomes available in March. 

Summer and fall schedules for UNM-LA will be available in March. Registration for summer and fall begins in April. The spring schedule comes out in October.   Spring paperwork and information are due in November. 

YOU MUST COMPLETE YOUR PAPERWORK FOR DUAL CREDIT EARLY OR YOU WILL NOT BE ALLOWED TO ENROLL.  This is LAHS and UNMLA paperwork and must be submitted in the Dual Credit Google classroom by the deadline assigned.