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Statistics.com Receives College Recommendation from the American Council on Education (ACE)

College Credit Recommendation for Online Data Science Courses from The Institute for Statistics Education at Statistics.com LLC

The American Council on Education’s College Credit Recommendation Service (ACE CREDIT) has evaluated and recommended college credit for 5 more of The Institute for Statistics Education at Statistics.com courses, and renewed its credit recommendation for 2 courses.

The courses approved in this latest review were:

  • Introduction to Statistics 1 & 2
  • Biostatistics for Medical Science and Public Health 1 & 2
  • Categorical Data Analysis
  • Decision Trees and Rule Based Segmentation
  • Financial Risk Modeling
  • Regression Analysis
  • Risk Simulation and Queuing

This brings the number of Institute courses to 7 that have received ACE credit recommendations.

Founded in 1918, ACE is the major coordinating body for all the nation’s higher education institutions, representing more than 1,600 college and university presidents and more than 200 related associations nationwide. It provides leadership on key higher education issues and influences public policy through advocacy.

ACE CREDIT connects workplace learning with colleges and universities by helping adults gain access to academic credit at colleges and universities for formal courses and examinations taken in the 6 American Council on Education workplace or other settings outside traditional higher education. For more information, visit the ACE CREDIT website at Student-Guide-to-Credit-for-Prior-Learning.

About Statistics.com
The Institute for Statistics Education at Statistics.com is a pioneer in high quality, student-centered online education. It offered its first course in 2002, focuses exclusively on analytics and statistics, and now offers over 110 courses and four certificate programs. Students come from around the world to learn with us.

Peter Bruce, Founder and President of The Institute, said, “This recommendation from ACE is a major step forward for our Data Science program, and we also have another 20 courses up for ACE review in the coming month.” Statistics.com online courses last 4 weeks, offer small classes and regular interaction with noted experts via private asynchronous discussion forums.