Adds Six Northern California Community Colleges To Its AcademyOne Partnership

SACRAMENTO (OBSNews.com) – Drexel University announced today it is making things simpler for students at six Northern California community colleges to transfer to the University through a partnership with AcademyOne Inc., a web-based services provider for transfer students and institutions that serve them.

Through AcademyOne’s CollegeTransfer.net prospective transfer students can view which courses from their current institution are transferable to Drexel’s undergraduate campus in Philadelphia.

Drexel has currently completed course equivalency listings at six California community colleges listed on Collegetransfer.net. They are: Sierra College; Folsom Lake College; American River College; Sacramento City College; Cosumnes River College; Santa Rosa Junior College.

“Drexel University welcomes nearly 1,000 transfer students each academic year,” said Joan McDonald, senior vice president for Enrollment Management at Drexel. “Our participation in the AcademyOne network provides new and enhanced means to meet the needs of these Northern California students as they join Drexel.”

The linkage is the latest in a growing connection between Philadelphia-based Drexel and Northern California.

Drexel last year began a special, $1 million scholarship program to encourage undergraduate students from 18 Northern California counties to attend Drexel in Philadelphia. Full-time transfer students are among those eligible for the $10,000 per year “Build the Pipeline” scholarship program.

And earlier this year, Drexel opened the Center for Graduate Studies in Sacramento, offering advanced degree programs for working professionals.

CollegeTransfer.net is an online service that allows transfer students and their families to investigate and plan their options for the transition through an online match of how a course from the previous institution transfers to the prospective institution. A student enrolled at Sierra College, for example, can log on to CollegeTransfer.net and view courses offered at Sierra College that will transfer to Drexel. Advisors can use CollegeTransfer.net to formulate program articulations.

CollegeTransfer.net contains the course catalogs of more than 4,000 U.S. and international colleges and universities. Drexel is continually expanding its list of equivalencies with selected colleges and universities.

AcademyOne software allows for automated updating and inter-institutional communication between partners to maintain accuracy and currency as courses and programs change within the feeder institutions.

More information on how to transfer to Drexel can be found at: http://www.drexel.edu/em/undergrad

Founded in 1891, Drexel is ranked as one of the nation’s most innovative universities by US News & World Report. The University is widely recognized for its focus on experiential learning through its co-operative education program, technology and use-inspired research.