Can Training Count as College Credit?

An important consideration for you to make is that your professional training or experience might be equivalent to college-level learning. Professional training includes Corporate University training and courses. Usually, by checking with your human resources department, you can find out if your particular training course was evaluated by the American Council on Education (ACE) or National PONSI. Thousands of professional courses have been evaluated. Both ACE and National PONSI publish credit recommendations for the training and non-collegiate education they have evaluated.

Some Colleges and Universities publish course equivalencies with Corporate University courses using these credit recommendations. CollegeTransfer.Net is in the process of collecting and loading course equivalencies with ACE CREDIT recommendations. An example can be seen with the McDonald's Corporation. Another example is with government training programs such as the Department of Justice.

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This article was written by AcademyOne's CEO and Founder David K. Moldoff who has worked in higher education for over thirty five years. Mr. Moldoff has been developing student centered enrollment systems since the 70's spanning multiple institutions, policies and practices. Mr. Moldoff graduated from Drexel University through the cooperative education program and majored in economics with a minor in marketing.

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