How Many Colleges Accept Non-Military ACE Credits?

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Unless one wants to survey the 4,000+ colleges and universities in the U.S. or sample the list of 2,000+ colleges and universities in the ACE network, the quickest way to get a very rough, conservative estimate is to look at the number of colleges who have accepted credits from Straighterline. The reason why I made this thread is because multiple members here have perpetuated the misinformation that less than a couple of hundred colleges will accept ACE credits. If you simply go by the number of schools that have accepted Straighterline courses, at least 500 schools will accept non-military ACE credits. The actual number could two to three times this. If NCCRS can manage to get 1,500 cooperating schools who signed up to be cooperating schools (NCCRS is affiliated with the New York State Education Department), then I'm sure the more well-known ACE enjoys wider acceptance.

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If you believe that Straighterline is lying about its list of schools that have accepted its credits, since paranoia seems to be rampant here, you can always contact some of the schools. One school that is not on Straighterline's list that has told me they will accept some Straighterline courses is Central Texas College. There are potentially hundreds of colleges like this that have not been found out by Straighterline through their surveying. I can confirm that University of Texas at Austin, which is on SL's list of non-partner colleges, does accept SL courses for its nursing program prerequisites.

https://nursing.utexas.edu/docs/academic...isites.pdf

There are some mistakes on SL's list that leads to a few duplicates. Some of the colleges are now partner colleges. They weren't when the list was compiled. There also seems to be some mistakes in the names given by the students. For example, University of Texas at San Marcos does not exist. The student probably meant Texas State University, San Marcos. Mountain State University lost its accreditation a few years ago, so it's closed.

For those who don't believe that a school like John Hopkins will accept SL courses, John Hopkins does note on its website that it accepts credits from FEI based on their ACE approval. This is for a graduate program. FEI courses are listed on the ACE website under the U.S. Office of Personnel Management.

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