Helping you retain the credit you've previously earned

There is nothing in the world more frustrating than to have credit be rejected in transfer by colleges and universities. You worked hard completing the courses in the past, paid your hard earned money for the tuition and books, and spent your precious time going to class. We'll help you minimize loss of credit in transfer with the support of our cutting-edge technology, Degree Quest. We can uncover which degrees are the right ones for you to consider by digitally streaming your credit into the curricula of thousands of degrees across the nation to find the ones that best fit what you have already earned in the past.

Have you decided to change majors in the past and have been told that many of the courses that you previously took no longer apply to the new degree that you want to earn? We can help you find degrees in the subject desired that will allow you to fit the credit previously earned in the initial program of study into the new field of study, maximizing the application of the credit you have earned in the past, thereby saving you time and money as you pursue your new goal in higher education.

Would you like to see a quick demonstration of how this works? Watch the Degree Quest demonstration on the videos page. If you really enjoy taking courses at your local college, we can facilitate a provider-recipient relationship where you can take the courses locally, while transferring the credit to one of our participating colleges or universities whose curriculum requirements accommodate maximum application of the credit you have earned in the past. To find out how this works, watch the Local Colleges presentation on the the videos page.

Overcoming Barriers in Transfer

Transfer of marginal scores

Some students spent a bit too much time partying during the early years of their college life and not enough time studying. The evidence is in their scores - less than stellar scores on many of the courses they completed in the past. With the support of many of our participating colleges, courses in which you earned an "F" disappear and, if you would like to transfer those in which you earned a grade of "D" toward your new degree, that can be arranged, as long as your overall grade point average can be brought up to a 2.0 or better. (The rule of thumb is that for every "D" that you have earned in the past, you'll need another course in which you earned a "B" or better to balance the GPA scales. An "A" in another subject can raise two "D's" from the past up to the minimum standards for your overall GPA.)

If you've earned low scores in courses in the past, let us help you recover the credit, rather than loose it in transfer.

National Accreditation transfers into Regionally Accredited degrees

Credit from colleges and universities that are nationally accredited actually have greater transferability than do courses from regionally accredited colleges and universities. That's why some colleges, such as ITT Tech put a disclaimer on their commercials that says something to the effect of "Credit earned is not likely to transfer." Colleges that are nationally accredited are listed in the publication Accredited Institutions of Postsecondary Education by the American Council on Education in the same way that colleges that are regionally accredited are listed. As such, most employers recognize the degrees earned from nationally accredited and regionally accredited colleges.

There are times when someone's employer does not recognize national accreditation, say for example, a local municipality in which a police officer desires to compete for lieutenant, but is required to have a baccalaureate degree from a regionally accredited college to be eligible to compete. The student may find the local college unwilling to accept the credit earned in the past from a nationally accredited college, but, don't despair. We have hundreds of degrees in our Degree Quest system in which students can transfer nationally accredited courses into a regionally accredited degree program. With our support, we can help transition the credit into a program of study that the municipality would recognize and help accelerate the progress of the police officer toward the degree he desired so he can become eligible for promotion to lieutenant. We can help you transfer nationally accredited courses, as well, if needed.