HELP ！ACE and NCCRS credits are not recognized by US graduate schools

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AICE and NACES members do not evaluate non academic credit from ACE/NCCRS providers, they should only be evaluating institutions (colleges, institutes, universities, etc).  You're providing a puzzle for people to complete for you, but you're only giving half the pieces, you really need to give us the University, the degree you're applying to so we can investigate alternatives or provide feedback, they may have options to get in using conditional acceptance, etc.  Do your due diligence and research, but also provide us more details on what the degree/institutions you're going for is...

I am sorry.

I have a BSc in Liberal Arts from Excelsior College and a MSc in Advanced Cyber Security from King's College London, and I am applying for PhD programs in Computer Science(cybersecurity major) since April. This is from Michigan Tech University,and they are not willing to accept my BSc transcripts.

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"The transfer credits you listed are not associated to a degree program at a university"

But it sounds like they are associated to a degree program at a university, your degree program at Excelsior University. (Have you completed the degree at Excelsior yet?)

Yes, I completed the degree at Excelsior in 2021.  I think this is very confusing and so are they, they have rejected my BSc transcript 3 times. They first asked me for an associate's degree transcript, and I said I didn't have one. I uploaded the transcripts from study.com, sophia.org and coopersmith, but they directly rejected it. They asked me again for an associate's degree transcript. After they finally understood, they said they were unable to accept these LLC and study.com credits.

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Generally speaking, a graduate program looks at two things, that you have a valid bachelor's degree, and that you have coursework that fulfills any prerequisites the program requires. I would not be surprised at all if a grad program refused to accept alt credit for their prerequisites, but I would be surprised if they cared about the other credits. Of course, any individual program can be as picky as they wish.

The answer to your problem is going to be applying to other programs. We know that many people have successfully gone on to master's and doctorate programs with bachelor's degrees full of alt credit, so this is not a widespread problem.

Yes, I understand, I got a MSc degree with this bachelor's degree. I am not sure if this university will continue my PhD application. Maybe they believe 113 alt credits do not make sense, since I only had 7 credits from Excelsior College.