Study.com’s website boasts over 4,000 courses, but the ONLY PLAN that allows you to earn college credit is called the College Saver Plan (formerly called College Accelerator). The current price is $235/month.

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Study.com has several partner colleges that guarantee transfer credit. The categories below are projected classifications. Refer to your target college’s transfer page to confirm how a course will be used towards a degree.

Study.com ACE Evaluated Course List (05/2024)

Many ccourse changes updated for February 2026 at the bottom of this page.

General Education

Humanities (General Education)

LANGUAGE ARTS

FOREIGN LANGUAGE

ARTS

Philosophy & Religion

Natural Sciences (General Education)

Life Science

Physical Science

Social Science (General Education)

History & Geography

Government, Politics, and ECONOMICS

Behavioral Sciences

Mathematics (General Education)

Non-General Education Courses

Health & Nursing

Computer Science

Criminal Justice

Education

Business

Accounting, BOOKKEEPING, and Finance

Marketing

Management, SUPERVISION, and LEADERSHIP

Business Operations

Business Ethics & Legal

Information TECHNOLOGY Systems

STRATEGIES

Study.com has the largest catalog of ACE credit courses of any provider- by a landslide. Currently, hundreds of courses are available, in both lower (100/200) and upper (300/400) level credit. Access to upper-level opportunities using ACE credit is pretty limited, but their list is the biggest.

Study.com’s College Saver program allows you to take 2 exams per month. In theory, this would translate into taking 2 courses, but technically you can take as many courses as you’d like- but you’re restricted to only attempting 2 exams. If you’re a fast learner or studying something you’ve already studied in the past, you can zip along by paying a service fee of $70 for up to 3 more additional exams. (*note* that fee may be changing.)

If you have an account, anyone in the family can use the account, but only the registered user can take college credit tests. Upon passing, you’ll have to add your credit to your Credly account. While it is true that some colleges allow you to directly send your Study.com credit to them (going around Credly), I would highly discourage you from doing so. The added safety net of having this credit on your “permanent record” is worth any possible inconvenience. Once it’s on your Credly transcript, you have it forever. That is not the case when you send a Study.com transcript directly to a college. Further, if you later apply to graduate school, you may have to provide the Credly transcript anyway – save yourself a headache and get each Study.com course on your Credly transcript the day you complete it.

Format: Study.com is a “watch the video, take the quiz” format, with about 100-150 lessons per course. Their lower level (100/200) courses will require “watch the video, take the quiz” plus a proctored final exam on your home computer. Their (300/400) upper-level courses will require the same but with the additional requirement(s) of some type of project or research paper(s).

Speed: The courses are at a fast enough pace that makes their adult customers happy to zip along, but for homeschooled students, you may find that there are gaps in the material (not to mention a lack of enrichment opportunities like research off and away from the site, writing, etc.) So, if you’re considering using Study.com for direct credit, my advice is to try 1 month and see how you like the format.

Degree Completion: People who intend on accumulating a lot of ACE credit (not just through Study.com) ultimately are planning to complete their degree this way. If you review their list of partner colleges (I mean their specific written partnerships, not the generic ACE list of colleges that get posted) you’ll find you can complete most of a college degree this way. Many parents select one of the partners with very high Study.com transfer guarantee (75% or more of the entire degree). The remaining credits can come from other sources.

CAUTION: When you use Study.com’s transfer tool, you’ll have to pay very close attention to the results. They have agreements with Nationally and Regionally Accredited schools (high school students should only choose those with Regional Accreditation) and they also have 2 different icons. The green checkmark icon is a generic transfer (they may or may not accept your Study.com credit) but the gold star icon is a GUARANTEED transfer. Only assume transfer if there is a gold star icon!!

I write a lot about Study.com and it can be a good choice for many. If, however, you’re looking for the cheapest or fastest, this is not the best option. In addition, if you’ve picked a college and that college is NOT a partner of Study.com’s, your college credit won’t transfer, so you’d be better served using a different type of course.

A highly motivated student using carefully selected courses through Study.com that are planned to transfer into a specific partner college and degree can accumulate up to 15 college credits per month – a pace that allows you to finish almost an entire bachelor’s degree in 1 year. Many HS4CC families do that when their teen is planning a general or liberal arts bachelor’s degree. With the available coupon (HS4CC) and using the program to the fullest (purchasing extra tests) a teen could accumulate at least 2 years of college credit in 6 months for under $2,000.

Take the time to read through these posts, there is a LOT of information here that will help.

A learning stack visual (credit to Alice for this screenshot)

All 5 courses were added to the dashboard, the course being worked on is Business 101. The other courses are automatically completed in every instance where they share a lesson. Notice how much progress she has in the other classes even though she hasn’t started them yet!!

Business 1 Learning Stack (15 credits)

Business 111 Principles of Supervision
Business 101 Principles of Management
Business 106 Human Resource Management
Business 107 Organizational Behavior
Business 100 Introduction to Business

Business 2 Learning Stack *take only after Business 1* (15 credits)

Business 103 Introductory Business Law
Business 120 International Business
Business 121 Introduction to Entrepreneurship
Choice of any 2 Business 100/200 courses *except for Business 105 and 209 – do not take*

Justice & Law Learning Stack (15 credits)

Criminal Justice 101 Introduction to Criminal Justice
Criminal Justice 104 Introduction to Criminology
Criminal Justice 106 Forensic Science
Criminal Justice 107 Criminal Law
Business 103 Introductory Business Law

Education Stack (15 credits)

Education 101 Foundations of Education
Education 103 Classroom Management
Education 105 Special Education History & Law
Education 104 Differentiated Instruction
Education 210 Technology in the Classroom

Communications Learning Stack (15 credits)

Communications 301: Diversity and Intercultural Communication (has 1 homework assignment)
Communications 102: Interpersonal Communications
Business 113: Business Communications (has 3 homework assignments)
Communications 101: Public Speaking (requires 3 speeches)
Choice *Except for Communication 120 – do not take*

Politics and War Learning Stack (15 credits)

History 106 The Civil War and Reconstruction
History 108 History of the Vietnam War
History 104 United States History 2
Political Science 102 American Government
Political Science 103 Comparative Politics

Psychology Learning Stack (15 credits)

Psychology 101 Introduction to Psychology
Psychology 102 Educational Psychology
Psychology 103 Human Growth and Development
Psychology 104 Social Psychology
Psychology 105 Research Methods in Psychology

Random Set (15 credits)

Education 105 Special Education History & Law
History 108 History of the Vietnam War
Education 104 Differentiated Instruction
Education 101 Foundations of Education
Hospitality 105 Travel and Tourism

Placement Test Strategy

Study.com offers Adaptive Assessments at the start of some courses to help you get through courses faster by allowing you to test out of material you’ve already learned. Their test will take your answers to a set of questions from the course and tell you which lessons you can skip. That way, you only need to complete lessons and quizzes on brand-new material.

The assessment is an evaluation of your overall knowledge of the subject, it can account up to 33% of the entire course just through that assessment.

If there is a placement test – TAKE IT!!! You can take it multiple times! 🙂

The placement tests are usually 30 questions long, and each right answer marks a complete category of quiz questions. I’ve seen as many as five topics get updated from a single placement test question. Correct answers on practice tests can also mark quiz questions correct, but the placement tests are broader and more efficient for this purpose.

Many Course changes Feburary 2026

Recent Changes

Course Name	Recent Changes	Date Effective
Accounting 303	This course will have changes to its assignments and will no longer require a final exam as of February 5, 2026. Please refer to the syllabus after this date for full requirements to complete the course and earn credit.	02/05/2026
Analytics 103	This course will have changes to its assignments as of February 5, 2026. Please refer to the syllabus after this date for full requirements to complete the course and earn credit.	02/05/2026
Business 106	This course will have changes to its content and new assignments as of December 2, 2025. Please refer to the syllabus after this date for full requirements to complete the course and earn credit.	02/05/2026
Business 307	This course will have changes to its content and assignments, and will no longer require a final exam as of February 5, 2026. Please refer to the syllabus after this date for full requirements to complete the course and earn credit.	02/05/2026
Business 312	This course will have changes to its content and assignments, and will no longer require a final exam as of February 5, 2026. Please refer to the syllabus after this date for full requirements to complete the course and earn credit.	02/05/2026
Chemistry 112L	This course will have changes to its content as of February 5, 2026. Please refer to the syllabus after this date for full requirements to complete the course and earn credit.	02/05/2026
Education 106	This course will have changes to its assignment as of February 5, 2026. Please refer to the syllabus after this date for full requirements to complete the course and earn credit.	02/05/2026
English 103	This course will have changes to its content and assignments, and will no longer require a final exam as of February 5, 2026. Please refer to the syllabus after this date for full requirements to complete the course and earn credit.	02/05/2026
English 301	This course will have changes to its content and assignments, and will no longer require a final exam as of February 5, 2026. Please refer to the syllabus after this date for full requirements to complete the course and earn credit.	02/05/2026
Finance 104	This course will have changes to its assignment as of February 5, 2026. Please refer to the syllabus after this date for full requirements to complete the course and earn credit.	02/05/2026
Finance 305	This course will have changes to its content and assignment as of February 5, 2026. Please refer to the syllabus after this date for full requirements to complete the course and earn credit.	02/05/2026
Hospitality 301	This course will have changes to its assignments and will no longer require a final exam as of February 5, 2026. Please refer to the syllabus after this date for full requirements to complete the course and earn credit.	02/05/2026
Psychology 105	This course will have changes to its assignment as of February 5, 2026. Please refer to the syllabus after this date for full requirements to complete the course and earn credit.	02/05/2026
Psychology 311	This course will have changes to its assignments and will no longer require a final exam as of February 5, 2026. Please refer to the syllabus after this date for full requirements to complete the course and earn credit.	02/05/2026