Strong Exam Results Mean Big College Savings

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(KNOX) – State School Superintendent Levi Bachmeier said North Dakota students’ performance on Advanced Placement exams could save them more than $4.1 million in college tuition costs.

Newly published data on North Dakota students’ 2025 AP exam results show 69.5 percent of students scored a 3 or better on their test, using a scale of 1 to 5. A score of 3 or better is needed to qualify for North Dakota college credit in that subject.

Advanced Placement courses are electives that give high school students an opportunity for intensive study of chosen subjects. More than two dozen courses are available across North Dakota. The most popular are biology, English language and composition, psychology, U.S. history, and European history.

In the class of 2025, 1,690 North Dakota graduates took at least one AP exam, while 1,119 scored a 3 or better on their exam, a new report says. Twenty-two percent of graduates took at least one AP test.