A Salem will accept course credits from accredited colleges or universities. Your transcripts will be evaluated and a transfer sheet will be prepared indicating which courses will be accepted. Some adults even enter Salem needing only nine courses in order to complete their degree. A They will be students of all ages, backgrounds, races, and religions. Salem is a diverse community of individuals from many cultures.
Students range in age from eighteen to eighty.
Salem College is a mixed age campus, but age is only one way to define diversity. Others who have grown up in various parts of the United States but more recently settled in the Triad choose Salem College as the school where they wish to complete their degree or even, perhaps, take a second bachelor's degree. Adult students are drawn to Salem from various counties including Surry, Wilkes, Yadkin or Rowan and from towns and cities beyond Winston-Salem such as Salisbury or Greensboro, Statesville or Elkin. They come from various socio-economic environments and from work places where one may be the mother, another the mentor, one the manager, another the mechanic, one on the day shift, another on the night, one in the front office, another in the executive suite. Still others commute from as far away as South Carolina or Virginia to attend Salem College.