For off‐campus students located outside of Los Angeles, Orange and Ventura counties, DEN will arrange for exams to be proctored at local testing centers. These centers are usually open during standard business hours of 9am‐5pm local time and frequently charge a fee for their services. Professional testing centers are not affiliated with USC and administer exams for DEN as a professional courtesy.
Proctoring fees should be paid to the testing center and are due at the time of the examination. Fees will vary from location to location and are paid by the student directly to the testing center.
- Examinations administered at authorized testing centers must be held at, or as close as possible to, the same time that the examination is taken by students on campus.
- DEN will identify and coordinate with local testing centers and notify students and proctors of the examination date, time and location. To accommodate students in other time zones, or if there is a conflict with testing center hours, the examination may be given at a time different from on‐campus. In these cases, the examination will take place as close to the actual on‐campus examination time as possible.
In keeping with university policy for all students, students are not permitted to miss or relocate an exam because of vacation. DEN will not schedule make‐up or alternate location exams due to students’ personal vacations.
