Academic Partnerships
Partnerships designed for your success.
ACE Partnership Benefits
ACE partners with over 2,000 school districts, hospitals, businesses, and organizations to help you advance your career. You benefit from these partnerships through Employer Grants, transfer-credit opportunities, and networking events.
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Academic Partners
Our main goal is to make high-quality, online education both affordable and accessible. Our academic partnerships support this goal by creating credit transfer pathways for you.
Direct Partnership Pathways
Learning Care Group
What’s the next stop on your career journey? Whether it’s a bachelor’s degree, an advanced degree or upskilling with standalone courses, American College of Education can get you there. Plus, eligible Learning Care Group employees can get 10% off their ACE tuition.
Learn MoreOutlier
Outlier.org courses are 100% online and Zoom-free, offering an immersive, interactive digital experience for $400 per course. They’re built by game designers to be engaging, entertaining, and flexible. Outlier, from the co-founder of MasterClass, is an entirely new way to earn college credit on your time, and our partnership with Outlier establishes credit pathways for a seamless transfer process into programs at the American College of Education.
Learn MoreCenter for Financial Training
ACE is a low-cost, high-quality online college offering degree and non-degree programs designed to fit the busy lives of working professionals. As a college who serves business professionals, ACE is excited to partner with Center for Financial Training, a leader in financial and business services training.
Learn MoreMedCerts
MedCerts’ partnership with American College of Education means you can transfer the MedCerts certifications you’ve completed into one of our fully online bachelor’s degree programs.
Learn MoreTeaching Channel
Teaching Channel with Learners Edge provides versatile and effective continuing education graduate credit courses for teachers. Through our partnership, select ACE as your transcribing institution when you enroll in a Teaching Channel course or transfer up to 9 Teaching Channel courses into a variety of programs at ACE.
Learn MoreBridge Education Group
Through ACE’s partnership with Bridge Education Group, IDELTOnline™ (International Diploma in English Language Teaching – Online), you can transfer up to nine credits into a variety of online graduate programs at ACE.
Learn MoreiTeach®
Through ACE’s partnership with iteach®, you can transfer up to 12 credits into a variety of ACE’s master’s and doctoral degree programs.
Learn MoreLETRS
Through ACE’s partnership with Lexia, you can earn graduate credit for LETRS® (Language Essentials for Teachers of Reading and Spelling) and can transfer up to 12 graduate credits to select ACE programs or request a transcript for completed LETRS® coursework.
Learn MoreLexia Aspire™ Professional Learning
Aspire’s partnership with American College of Education means you can turn the Aspire courses you’ve completed into academic credits. You can also apply them directly to one of our fully online master’s degrees.
Learn MoreNational Center on Education and the Economy
Through ACE’s partnership with the National Center on Education and the Economy (NCEE), you can transfer up to nine credits towards ACE doctoral programs.
Learn MoreIGA Cocoa-Cola Institute
Whether applying your IGA Institute coursework towards our BA in Applied Management and Leadership or looking to pursue another program, our enrollment counselors are ready to answer your questions.
Learn MoreQuality Matters
The Quality Matters (QM)Teaching Online Certificate elevates the skills of virtual instructors enabling successful delivery of content in an online environment. Our collaboration with QM establishes a seamless process for those earning a QM Teaching Online Certificate to enroll at American College of Education.
Learn MoreUndergraduate Course Providers
Straighterline
Through ACE’s partnership with Straighterline, you can complete general education credits that transfer into ACE’s bachelor completion programs and ACE’s nursing programs.
learn moreStudy.com
Through ACE’s partnership with Study.com, you can complete general education credits that transfer into ACE’s bachelor completion programs and ACE’s nursing programs.
learn moreSophia Learning
Sophia Learning’s partnership with ACE means you can transfer the undergraduate courses you’ve completed into one of our fully online bachelor’s degree completion programs.
Total Testing Education
Complete 60 transfer credits in Total Testing Education courses that align with ACE’s degree requirements and transfer your credits to ACE to continue your degree.
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