Microcredentials
Microcredentials are groups of credit-bearing courses that help you gain career skills. You can use them toward a degree or certificate program, or as credentials in your field of interest.
Why microcredentials?
- Microcredentials take less time to earn than a degree. With nine or fewer credits, microcredentials require less than a degree or advanced certificate and can be earned in as little as two semesters.
- You choose what you need and want. Microcredentials grant you the ability to master a skill you want, without the longer-term commitment of a degree program.
- Microcredentials are flexible. Use them as a less expansive concentration with your degree program, to build on your career, to explore an area of interest outside your field of study or, for those who aren't students, career.
Part-time TAP for non-degree programs eligibility
Some of these microcredential courses are eligible to have the New York State Tuition Assistance Program (TAP) for non-degree programs grant cover a portion of the cost of tuition, as long as you are economically eligible as follows and meet other requirements, including:
- $80,000 for dependent undergraduate students, independent students who are married and have tax dependents, or independent students who are unmarried and have tax dependents
- $40,000 for married independent undergraduate students who have no other dependents
- $10,000 for unmarried independent undergraduate students with no dependents
If you believe you earn less than the amount listed in the criteria above, you should apply by completing the FAFSA and TAP applications. Please note you have a lifetime of eight semesters of TAP. These will be prorated for the number of credits you earn, but will use a portion of your lifetime TAP eligibility.
Please contact us at 518-743-2223 or finaidoffice@sunyacc.edu with any questions.