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NCCRS courses and Grad school - tsimmns - 04-06-2017
Does anyone have any negative reviews of NCCRS approved courses and getting into a graduate school? I have been skeptical of Davar so far, but the cheap price seems more and more appealing. Is NCCRS the equivalent of ACE or are they viewed as a step below by Universities?
NCCRS courses and Grad school - sanantone - 04-06-2017
If you have a regionally accredited degree, that will get you into most graduate programs. They aren't going to go over where every single course came from unless it is a prerequisite. If it is a prerequisite, there is a high chance that they won't accept a course that is not from an accredited college regardless of ACE or NCCRS approval. Some schools are okay with alternative sources for prerequisites as long as they were accepted by the school awarding the bachelor's degree. Some schools have a policy of accepting CLEP for prerequisites, but they'll probably be confused if you ask about ACE-approved courses. I think you will rarely run into a graduate school that will say, "This is fine because it was approved by ACE, but we can't accept this because we've never heard of NCCRS." ACE has 1,800 members and probably most of them only accept ACE when it comes to military, AP, CLEP, and DSST credits. NCCRS has 1,500 cooperating colleges. The difference is not all that big.