Students who need a wide variety of Learning Support courses may be admitted to the college, provided they meet the minimum criteria for admissions based on placement test scores as established by the University System of Georgia. Though many students qualify to enroll in credit courses along with Learning Support courses, others need a broad spectrum of Learning Support instruction and counseling to prepare them before they enroll in regular college-level course work.

Advisement
The Learning Support program provides a sequence of studies and academic support services. Consequently, a major purpose of the program is to assist students with developing their personal goals and appropriate curriculum plans. Special academic advisement and counseling are provided to speed the students' progress toward enrollment in college credit courses.

Registration
During each semester of enrollment, a Learning Support student must first register for all required Learning Support courses before being allowed to register for other classes. This requirement applies to full-time and part-time students.

Prerequisites for College-Level Classes
Students must exit or exempt Learning Support reading as a prerequisite for social, natural, and physical science courses; students must exit or exempt Learning Support English and reading as prerequisites for college-level English. Students must exit or exempt Learning Support mathematics as a prerequisite for physics and chemistry. Any science course with a prerequisite of college-level mathematics would also require exit or exemption from Learning Support mathematics. For specific course prerequisites, check the course descriptions.

30-Hour Rule
Students must be enrolled in required Learning Support courses before being allowed to take college-level coursework, and students may not accumulate more than 30 GPA hours of college-level credit before completing all Learning Support requirements. 
Transfer students may earn up to 30 additional GPA hours of college-level credit beyond college credit transferred to GPC before being required to take Learning Support courses only.

Withdrawal from Learning Support Courses
Students with Learning Support requirements who are enrolled in both Learning Support courses and college-level credit courses may not withdraw from the required Learning Support courses with a "W" unless they also withdraw from all college-level credit courses.

Exiting Learning Support
To exit Learning Support, students must exempt or earn a "C" or better in ENGL 0099, READ 0098, and MATH 0098 and pass all appropriate exit criteria for these courses. Any Learning Support student who does not earn a "C" or better in a required Learning Support course or who does not pass all appropriate exit criteria must repeat that course.

Attempts
Students may take a maximum of three semesters in mathematics, two semesters in English and two semesters in reading. The only grade that does not count as an attempt in a Learning Support course is "W."

Learning Support Suspension
Students who do not complete a Learning Support area (English, reading, or mathematics) in the maximum number attempts allowed in that area will be suspended from Georgia Perimeter College and all University System institutions for one year. Attempts are cumulative within the Regents' System.

Readmission from Learning Support Suspension
Students admitted to GPC after completing a one-year suspension from any University System of Georgia institution will be retested for placement in any unsatisfied Learning Support area and placed without a Learning Support requirement if they meet the institutional criteria for exemption. Students who do not exempt on the retest may be admitted to GPC for up to three additional attempts in mathematics, two in English, and two in reading. Students admitted under this provision are subject to the 30-hour limit on college-level coursework and may not take credit work if they have earned 30 credit hours during their previous period(s) of enrollment.

Students who are suspended from the institution and who attend a SACS-COC TCSG institution may be readmitted and satisfied of their Learning Support requirement based on exiting or exempting Learning Support at the technical school they attended. This can be done prior to the end of the one year suspension.

Students suspended from the institution without completing Learning Support requirements who do not attend a SACS-COC TCSG institution may be exempted from their Learning Support requirements through transfer of course credit if they are eligible for transfer admission under the institution's regular transfer admission policies with college credit in the area(s) of suspension. (Note: Transfer students must have 30 hours of college-level transfer credit.) Students are eligible to be readmitted prior to the end of the one-year suspension with transfer credit of a “C” or better in ENGL 1101 or equivalent for English and reading or a college level mathematics course dependent on the area(s) of suspension. However, students admitted without 30 hours of total college-level transfer credit must take the placement test again.