Courses offered through ACP are university courses taught during the regular school day at the students’ own high schools by ACP certified high school teachers. Certified ACP teachers are appointed to adjunct lecturer status after careful selection and training by Indiana University (IU) faculty.

ACP courses provide a challenging college curriculum and productive secondary school experience that can be applied to post-secondary education. Each course covers the same content, has the same expectations, and gives the same credit as taught at IU. High school teachers are required to follow the proposed IU syllabi, methodologies, textbooks, and other instructional materials with some flexibility to accommodate individual teaching style. Academic standards of ACP courses are high, and the students’ success will depend upon good work and study habits.

Guidance counselors and ACP teachers can assist high school students in completing the ACP Student Application for specific ACP courses. In addition to checking the requirements for acceptance into an ACP course, the students need to be carefully advised by the guidance counselor and the ACP teacher to select ACP courses that will benefit their intended college majors.

For ACP course offerings, see ACP Course List. Not all courses are offered at every participating high school. What courses to offer and when to offer them are always decisions made by the local high school based on their own curricular needs and expertise of teachers. Use the search function below to see a list of specific courses being offered in your high school and the course descriptions:

Courses offered through ACP qualify for dual credit. This means that students earn high school credit and college credit simultaneously. The work appears on the high school transcript and also on an IU transcript. ACP students attending any of the IU campuses after high school graduation will find that their ACP courses are part of their permanent college record. They need do nothing to assure that ACP courses are applied at IU.

Any college, university, or community college that accepts IU transfer credit should accept credit earned through ACP. ACP courses are IU credit courses that transfer to many colleges and universities if a grade of "C" or better is achieved. Over 90% of former ACP students have successfully transferred ACP credit to more than 500 institutions of higher education over the past 25 years.

Visit the Transfer of ACP Credit page to learn about transferring credits earned through ACP to colleges and universities other than IU. Lists of colleges and universities that represent four general kinds of credit transfer can be found on this page.