The Alberta Council on Admissions and Transfer (ACAT) is an independent body created in 1974 to facilitate transfer agreements between the various
post secondary
Tertiary education, also referred to as third-level, third-stage or post-secondary education, is the educational level following the completion of secondary education. The World Bank, for example, defines tertiary education as including univers ...
institutions in
Alberta
Alberta ( ) is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada. It is part of Western Canada and is one of the three prairie provinces. Alberta is bordered by British Columbia to the west, Saskatchewan to the east, the Northwest Ter ...
. Alberta was the first province to develop a standard procedure for this process.
[Glen A. Jones. ]
Higher Education in Canada: Different Systems, Different Perspectives
'. Routledge; 25 June 2012. . p. 86, 90.
The need for ACAT grew particularly in response to the complex situation of students who had attended colleges and wished to transfer their credits in order to attend a university. ACAT facilitates the required negotiations between all
stakeholders, and maintains a database of the articulated courses. In 2000 the council initiated a process to develop a common grading system for Alberta universities.
The ACAT course database is accessible to students through its website, and the council has also made an app available.
"Transferring credits between college and university can be rocky"
''Maclean's'', by Louise Brown, Nov 28, 2016
References
External links
Alberta Council on Admissions and Transfer website
Educational organizations based in Alberta
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