What does CLEP stand for?

She said the college never granted credit for life experience at the graduate level and only offered credit for police and other training sparingly for undergraduates.

Measure would give credit to sheriffs SALEM - Oregon legislators plan to give 70-year-old Sheriff Bob Skipper the equivalent of credit for life experience - he won't have to redo basic training.

All kinds of information, like courses, programs, accredited online degrees, financial aid, scholarships, grants and credit for life experience are just a click away.

CLEf is accepted at thousands of colleges and, in a nutshell, gives students of any age college credit for life experience.

Internet diploma mills often sell degrees for a few thousand dollars, sometimes giving credit for life experiences.

A diploma mill is a college or university that operates primarily to make money, often offering college credit for life experience rather than formal education.

If testing your brains out is not your thing, you can still shave off thousands of dollars from the escalating cost of college tuition in other ways: concurrent enrollment in college and high school; correspondence courses and distance learning courses available on audio- and videotapes, online, television and combinations thereof; credit for foreign academic experience; and credit for life experience learning, which is now awarded through most nontraditional or independent study degree programs.

Spanning five to six years, this program also grants credit for life experience gained through job and workshops.