Campus News

Rockford, Ill. (January 5, 2022) Offering unprecedented visibility and guidance into student transfer decisions, Rockford University, the region’s leading private four-year institution, today announced that it has selected CollegeSource’s Transferology® solution. The new solution – available immediately – delivers vital course equivalency and higher education transfer credit information for students considering attending Rockford University as their next step in their academic journey. Students can access Transferology at https://www.rockford.edu/admission/transfer/.

            “With the help of Transferology, our entire community will now benefit from having unprecedented certainty around which courses from other institutions will transfer credit toward students’ degree pursuits – ultimately empowering them to make more educated decisions about their future,” said Michael J. Quinn, Ph.D., interim Vice President for Enrollment Management at Rockford University. “This also opens the door for Rockford as a college of choice for exponentially more prospective students regionally and nationally, many of whom may not have previously considered our institution.”

         As the only nationwide open transfer network with comprehensive transfer data, Transferology is a cloud-based solution that provides student access to millions of course-to-course and program-to-program transfer equivalencies. Students can enter coursework and instantly see how their credits will transfer to Rockford. This information will help Rockford’s transfer counselors, students and parents make more informed decisions when transferring higher education credit.

            “We’re thrilled to partner with Rockford University in deploying Transferology to transform their student transfer experiences – their investment in the most comprehensive transfer innovations will help drive more informed student transfer decisions overall as well as help accelerate student pathways toward earning a degree or certificate,” said Kerry Cooper, CEO, CollegeSource.

About Rockford University

Rockford University is a private four-year, co-educational institution founded in 1847 offering undergraduate and graduate degrees in traditional liberal arts and professional fields. The University offers more than 80 majors, minors and concentrations, including the bachelor’s degree completion program for a B.S. in Management Studies. Through its Graduate Studies department, degrees are extended to include the Master of Business Administration (MBA), Master of Arts in Teaching (MAT), and Master of Education in Urban Education, (M.Ed.). Rockford University is home to one of only 11 Phi Beta Kappa (PBK) chapters in Illinois, the most prestigious honor society in the United States. Named by The Princeton Review as a Best Midwestern College and is a U.S. News & World Report Best Midwest Regional University, Rockford University currently serves approximately 1,250 full-and part-time students.

About CollegeSource

CollegeSource is the higher education industry’s trusted provider of transfer and degree achievement solutions. For 50 years, CollegeSource has led market-changing transformation by inventing and investing in technology solutions that aid the staff and students of higher education in their quest to plan and complete academic careers. As the archiver of the nation’s extensive higher education course catalogs, CollegeSource’s degree audit, academic planning, and transfer credit evaluation solutions are depended on by more than 2,000 institutions and millions of individuals worldwide. Founded and led by higher education and technology veterans, CollegeSource is a privately-held company based in San Diego with offices in Cincinnati, Ohio. For more information, please visit collegesource.com.

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