Study.com and Sophia Partner College Transcripts?

[acamp]

Good morning,
I tried searching the board for this topic but couldn’t find any related posts.

For study.com and Sophia, I know that they have partner schools/colleges that they have transfer agreements. Can someone explain how this works in regards to the classes showing up on their transcript?

For example, if I were to take a bunch of classes on study and Sophia through a partner school (Liberty University for example), how would I go about getting all those classes to show up on the Liberty University transcript? I hope that question makes sense.

Thanks in advance!



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[BitWiseGuy]

I’m not certain, but I think transferred courses appear as transferred or satisfied. In other words, it’ll be clear that you didn’t take those courses at the school.

[ss20ts]

You have to send the transcript to your school. Some schools may automatically receive them from Sophia. Others don't. You need to contact your school to see what they need for the courses to transfer. They will always be transfer credits and not courses completed at your school though so even once they're on your school transcript, they'll be listed as transfer credits.

[acamp]

You have to send the transcript to your school. Some schools may automatically receive them from Sophia. Others don't. You need to contact your school to see what they need for the courses to transfer. They will always be transfer credits and not courses completed at your school though so even once they're on your school transcript, they'll be listed as transfer credits.

Yes but what about the colleges that are listed on Sophia and study.com as specific “partner schools”. Won’t those classes automatically transfer in as transfer credits?


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[bjcheung77]

ACE/NCCRS partnerships are just that, they're articulation agreements with those specific institutions. The courses taken at these alternative credit providers are going to transfer as specific courses and will only apply to that articulation agreement, even though there are multiple agreements, it'll go to schools differently. If you need to transfer them to another school, you'll have a hard time even though it's on a transcript, these only indicate the courses were complete using alternative methods such as exams from CLEP or alternative courses from Sophia.org/Study.com

[acamp]

ACE/NCCRS partnerships are just that, they're articulation agreements with those specific institutions. The courses taken at these alternative credit providers are going to transfer as specific courses and will only apply to that articulation agreement, even though there are multiple agreements, it'll go to schools differently. If you need to transfer them to another school, you'll have a hard time even though it's on a transcript, these only indicate the courses were complete using alternative methods such as exams from CLEP or alternative courses from Sophia.org/Study.com

Hello,
But on the college transcript that the study.com course gets transferred to, will the course title show on the transcript from study or the course title that the college has it as? Thanks again


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[allvia]

ACE/NCCRS partnerships are just that, they're articulation agreements with those specific institutions.  The courses taken at these alternative credit providers are going to transfer as specific courses and will only apply to that articulation agreement, even though there are multiple agreements, it'll go to schools differently.  If you need to transfer them to another school, you'll have a hard time even though it's on a transcript, these only indicate the courses were complete using alternative methods such as exams from CLEP or alternative courses from Sophia.org/Study.com

Hello,
But on the college transcript that the study.com course gets transferred to, will the course title show on the transcript from study or the course title that the college has it as?  Thanks again


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They will still show 3rd party transfer credits, not as credit from the school. It will show transferred as what that particular school accepted it as - it will never show as credit earned from the school. In your example, if you transferred all the study.com (SDC), sophia, etc credits to Liberty under the agreement you would not later be able to use the Liberty transcript and transfer those credits to a school that does not accept the SDC, Sophia, etc by sending a Liberty transcript. What that is called is credit laundering, and it doesn't work.  The agreements only mean that a school has agreed to give credit for the credits to thier own programs (and in some cases for only specific degrees within). Now if you just need them on an RA transcript for proof you have earned the credits then that could work - that is called credit banking. Here it has been common for those looking at taking the CPA exam (they needed to boost their total credits), this may also work if you needed a certain number of college credits in a particular topic for education certification in a topic - this would all depend on the local requirements.  Again, for your SDC to Liberty example - here is what it should appear on the transcript as the Liberty equivalent https://study.com/college/school/liberty...rsity.html

[acamp]

ACE/NCCRS partnerships are just that, they're articulation agreements with those specific institutions.  The courses taken at these alternative credit providers are going to transfer as specific courses and will only apply to that articulation agreement, even though there are multiple agreements, it'll go to schools differently.  If you need to transfer them to another school, you'll have a hard time even though it's on a transcript, these only indicate the courses were complete using alternative methods such as exams from CLEP or alternative courses from Sophia.org/Study.com

Hello,
But on the college transcript that the study.com course gets transferred to, will the course title show on the transcript from study or the course title that the college has it as?  Thanks again


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They will still show 3rd party transfer credits, not as credit from the school. It will show transferred as what that particular school accepted it as - it will never show as credit earned from the school. In your example, if you transferred all the study.com (SDC), sophia, etc credits to Liberty under the agreement you would not later be able to use the Liberty transcript and transfer those credits to a school that does not accept the SDC, Sophia, etc by sending a Liberty transcript. What that is called is credit laundering, and it doesn't work.  The agreements only mean that a school has agreed to give credit for the credits to thier own programs (and in some cases for only specific degrees within). Now if you just need them on an RA transcript for proof you have earned the credits then that could work - that is called credit banking. Here it has been common for those looking at taking the CPA exam (they needed to boost their total credits), this may also work if you needed a certain number of college credits in a particular topic for education certification in a topic - this would all depend on the local requirements.  Again, for your SDC to Liberty example - here is what it should appear on the transcript as the Liberty equivalent https://study.com/college/school/liberty...rsity.html

Truly appreciate your response - you have not changed one bit with being beyond helpful as always.

For the credit banking, it’s been a while, but are there certain colleges that I can credit bank all the credits into one college transcript without having to pursue a degree at that school? I remember that TESU used to do that but not sure of their process anymore.


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[rachel83az]

You can technically do that at TESU, but why? What are you hoping to achieve? There are different options depending on what you want/need.

[ss20ts]

You have to send the transcript to your school. Some schools may automatically receive them from Sophia. Others don't. You need to contact your school to see what they need for the courses to transfer. They will always be transfer credits and not courses completed at your school though so even once they're on your school transcript, they'll be listed as transfer credits.

Yes but what about the colleges that are listed on Sophia and study.com as specific “partner schools”.   Won’t those classes automatically transfer in as transfer credits?


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No. It depends on the school. Some schools require the transcript and others don't. No matter how the courses are received by the school, they will always be transfer courses. Partner schools is a meaningless phrase as each school has their own unique relationship with these providers and Sophia and Study don't operate in the same manner.