Ways to Earn College Credit That Don’t Include Traditional Online Courses

Did you know that last year alone, TESU students received 273,753 credits toward their degrees that didn’t involve a single traditional online course?

The truth is, almost 85 percent of the TESU student body is 25 years of age or older, and so it makes sense that you may have acquired college-level knowledge outside of the classroom that might be worth college credit.

Prior learning assessment (PLA) is a selection of credit earning methods that allows you to leverage what you learned outside of the classroom for college credit. That means that if you can demonstrate what you learned is a result of your training, work, military service or other life learning experience, you can turn it into credit toward your degree