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The College Choices for Adults website is powered by the Transparency by Design (TbD) initiative which seeks to assist adult learners in becoming informed consumers of higher education. Participation in TbD also promotes greater transparency and accountability among regionally-accredited, adult-serving*, distance higher education** institutions.

* enroll students 23 years and older.
**distance higher education encompasses online, hybrid, competency-based and other flexible learning formats.

College Choices for Adults, and the Transparency by Design initiative have three key differentiators from other college search sites or voluntary systems of accountability:

1. We provide program-level learning outcomes (aka what students are expected to learn in each program of study), measures of those learning outcomes, and how well recent students have performed. This type of data is rarely shared publicly, but our partner institutions chose (completely voluntarily!) to share publicly on the web. This allows adult learners to align their personal and professional goals with educational opportunities which have matching program-level learning outcomes.
2. All of the data on this site goes through a third-party quality assurance review by the WICHE Cooperative for Educational Technologies (WCET). Other sites post data without any review by an outside party. Transparency by Design institutions voluntarily submit to this review to ensure quality data to help adults make their college choice.
3. Institutions involved in Transparency by Design provide distance learning** options for adult learners*, thus our primary focus on adult learners. Other sites often focus on the priorities of traditional-aged students, such as campus life. College Choices for Adults concentrates on informing adults on how they can progress toward personal goals.

* enroll student 23 years and older.
**distance learning encompasses online, hybrid, competency-based and other flexible learning formats.

 

 

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Charter Member Institutions

• American InterContinental University Online
• American Public University System
• Capella University
• Charter Oak State College
• Colorado Technical University
• Excelsior College

• Franklin University
• Kaplan University
• Regis University
• Rio Salado College
• Western Governors University

Member Institutions

• Argosy University
• Ashford University
• ECPI University

• Fort Hays State University
• University of the Rockies

Associate Member Institutions

• Cambridge College
• New Charter University