graduate ACE credits

[Leherself]

CDSE has some, although I believe (not 100% sure) you need to be military/DOD.

DSS / CDSE / Education Certificates

Yeah, you have to be military and/or a federal civilian employee for these (not sure if it's restricted to DoD or if it's fed wide). Their stuff is all full blown graduate courses - 16 week online courses with discussion board posts, tests, and research papers. So if you qualify it's nice to have a source of free credits, but they're not easy, fast, or self-paced (DSS also has a number of in-person courses that are ACE evaluated). I also inquired with a handful of graduate programs that claim to be open to transfer credit (Excelsior, TESU, AMU) and the responses I got were pretty uninspiring - mostly elective credit, if anything. I may end up taking one or two of their classes because they count as continuing education for my security certification, but as far as using them as a leg up on grad school I've pretty much completely disgarded the idea at this point as a waste of time. As it is, I withdrew from the one I had signed up for because it was just too time consuming for me to manage at the time.

For the most part graduate studies are too specific and focused for transfer credit to be terribly useful I think. CDSE's stuff probably lends itself best to a Masters in Security Management (AMU offers this). It doesn't even really work for a general business degree because it's all too federal government focused.