College credit for firefighter training/academy

[Joeman200]

The reason that SOME colleges don't accept SOME certifications for credit, is because most colleges will only accept transfer credit from other colleges. Since most training doesn't fall under those guidelines, then there is no way to get the credit over to them. It's not on a college transcript to be sent.

Any colleges that will accept ACE-approved courses will take anything you can get onto an ACE transcript. It's just a matter of where they can put them into the degree plan.

I don't think most college administrators are just jerks who don't want to give credit. I just think most aren't out-of-the box thinkers, don't understand how things work, or only know how to go by the rules.

Yeah I totally agree, they're not jerks my any means. Unfortunately, in the state I'm in, the "academy" is pretty much the exact same material (and books) as the area of study for a associates in fire science. I think they tried before to make it worth credit (that could be accepted by state schools) but it failed because of the community colleges. This was probably long before ACE or anything like that. This thread is directed at other FFs who may be searching whether or not it's worth credit though.