College Credit for Teens

Are you a school district or teen organization looking to enhance your post-secondary offerings?

Are your high school juniors or seniors interested in getting a head start on their college education? 

Elevate Your Post-Secondary Offerings  

Gratz College offers college credit and also the opportunity for dual enrollment partnership. Dual enrollment is an acceleration program that allows pre-collegiate students to take postsecondary coursework and simultaneously earn credit toward a high school diploma, a career certificate, and/or a college degree. 

Dual enrollment positively impacts high school academics, high school graduation rate, college enrollment, college success, and college completion rate. It can also help reduce time to degree, meaning how long it takes students to complete their college degree, saving them time and money. Dual enrollment is expanding nationwide and offered in many high schools in the United States. “Approximately 88% of high schools offer dual enrollment, and 34% of U.S. students take college courses in high school” (US DOE). 

Timeless Education
for the 21st Century Learner 

Gratz College has a rich history in offering advanced learning to high school students, since its founding in 1895. We partner with schools and programs from across the country and world to provide courses online or at school directly in approved states. Gratz opens doors to undergraduate programs, offering non-matriculated students a chance to earn college credits. These credits can later be submitted for transfer at other accredited colleges and universities, expanding your academic opportunities. Gratz College is accredited by the Middle States Commission on Higher Education.

Ways to Partner

Gratz will work with your school or institution to deliver undergraduate-level courses for non-matriculated students to earn college credit. They can later submit for transfer credit at other colleges and universities.

Here are possible ways your institution can partner: 

• College Credits: Gratz partners with high schools and supplemental education programs from across the country to run courses that result in college credit. Your school or organization can offer college-credit bearing courses taught by Gratz-approved high school instructors.

• Dual Enrollment: Dual enrollment allows high school students to take college-level courses for both high school and college credits. Schools can partner with Gratz to provide dual enrollment for their juniors and seniors.

Our Current Partners

Transfer Credits 

Non-matriculated students participating in Gratz’s undergraduate-level programs understand that all credit transfer decisions are at the discretion of the students’ eventual host college and its academic departments. The following is a partial list of colleges and universities that have accepted students’ Gratz College undergraduate-level transcripts for credit.  

• American University   
• Harvard University  
• Miami University (Oxford, Ohio)   
• Muhlenberg College   
• NYU   
• Rutgers University   
• Salem State University   
• The Ohio State University   
• Touro University  
• UC Santa Barbara   
• University of Chicago    
• University of Florida   
• University of Hartford   
• University of Massachusetts   
• University of New Orleans   
• University of Pittsburgh   
• West Chester University  

Gratz College is accredited by the Middle States Commission on Higher Education.

*Every college and university determines its own criteria for accepting the transfer of credit earned at another institution, and these criteria may change from time to time. Accordingly, Gratz College cannot guarantee that credits earned for our college-level courses will be accepted by another institution. Please review the credit transfer policy of any institution where you might be interested in transferring Gratz College credits.