Earning college credit through ACE CREDIT^®

About ACE

Founded in 1918, ACE is the major coordinating body for all the nation’s higher education institutions, representing more than 1,600 college and university presidents and more than 200 related associations nationwide. It provides leadership on key higher education issues and influences public policy through advocacy.

ACE CREDIT connects workplace learning with colleges and universities by helping adults gain access to academic credit at colleges and universities for formal courses and examinations taken in the workplace or other settings outside traditional higher education. For more than 40 years, colleges and universities have trusted ACE CREDIT to provide reliable course equivalency information to facilitate their decisions to award academic credit.

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Planned exams

Certiport is currently in the process of applying for ACE CREDIT for the following titles. Please check back for the approval status of these exams.

• IT Specialist - Databases
• IT Specialist - Device Configuration and Management
• IT Specialist - HTML and CSS
• IT Specialist - HTML5 Application Development
• IT Specialist - Java
• IT Specialist - JavaScript
• IT Specialist - Network Security
• IT Specialist - Networking
• IT Specialist - Python
• IT Specialist - Software Development

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Approved exams

The American Council on Education’s College Credit Recommendation Service (ACE CREDIT^®) has evaluated and recommended college credit for the following current Certiport exams:

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Archived exams

As long as a you passed an exam during the eligible period, you may still request credit from ACE at any time after that. For example, MOS 2016 Word was only eligible from August 2017 to July 2020, but you could still apply for ACE CREDIT^® today.

To see a list of archived exams that were previously eligible for ACE credit, view the list below.

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Steps to obtain ACE College Credit

Information on transcript services is available in the ACE Student Resource Center.

• Step 1: Students should verify with their university/college admissions office that they grant credit for the specific certification.
• Step 2: Send your transcript. Credly’s Acclaim platform is pleased to partner with ACE to bring you a seamless way to share your transcript with prospective learning institutions and organizations.

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Related links

For more information about ACE CREDIT, visit:

1. ACE CREDIT website
2. ACE CREDIT
3. ACE Types of CREDIT Reviews: Course Reviews
4. ACE National Guide to College Credit for Workforce Training (Microsoft only)
5. ACE National Guide to College Credit for Workforce Training
6. ACE Transcript Registry

 

The ACE CREDIT logo is a federally registered trademark of the American Council on Education and cannot be used or reproduced without the express written permission of the American Council on Education.
 

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