Students also can take approved tests to earn credits, and portfolio assessment is another option for college-level learning acquired through life experience. Enrolled students may also take advantage of Charter Oak's contract learning option. Because you can take courses at as many different colleges or universities as you want, and transfer them all to Charter Oak without losing any credits in transfer. In conjunction with your Academic Counselor, you can pick and choose the courses most suitable for you from a variety of institutions. Plus, you may use testing to earn as many credits as you choose.
Traditional institutions limit the number of credits earned by testing.
However, if there is no standardized test available in your area of expertise, and if this expertise is equivalent to college-level work, you may want to investigate the possibility of a portfolio assessment of your prior learning. You get no direct credit for the CEU's you have earned, but they can serve as valuable background information when you are studying for an exam to earn credit or to document knowledge in the portfolio process. That depends on how much background you already have in the subject. When you are studying for approved exams, a good rule of thumb to follow is that for every hour of credit affixed to the exam, you should plan to spend three hours per week studying. This would be for subject matter for which you have no background.