Academic Common Market

Academic Common Market Application Process 

1. Step 1

   Step 1

   First, you must apply to and be admitted to ETSU under a degree program that is not offered in your home state.
2. Step  2

   Step  2

   Once you have been admitted to ETSU, contact your home state ACM coordinator and provide all documentation required by your state.
3. Step 3

   Step 3

   If approved, your home state ACM coordinator will send your ACM certification directly to ETSU.
4. Step 4

   Step 4

   Once received, we will do a final review to ensure you have been admitted to the approved major/program. ETSU will then contact you via email to confirm your ACM status.

Academic Common Market Policies 

• Double Majors

  ETSU stipulates completion of the first ACM major for which a student is certified. Upon completion of the ACM major, a student who pursues a second major that is not ACM approved will have the ACM status removed. If a student plans to pursue a second ACM major, ETSU supports completion of this major upon receipt of a new ACM certification letter.

• Majors with "Pre" Status

  • ETSU allows ACM certified students to pursue academic requirements for ACM approved majors during the “Pre” status. Students must be admitted to major programs when all prerequisites have been completed, regardless of grades earned. ETSU’s ACM coordinator will confer with “Pre” program coordinators on a regular basis to verify students’ program admission status. Students who are not admitted to programs after formal admission processes are completed will be removed from ACM status until such time that program admission is achieved.

  
  
  

  • ACM status remains in effect when a student meets the following: Student’s ACM major is formally and accurately documented at ETSU and subsequent semester reviews of registered courses are consistent with course requirements in the ACM major. ACM status is removed when one of the following occurs. Student changes major to a non-ACM major. Student has a declared ACM major but course registration reviews document pursuit of a non-ACM major. Student changes from one ACM major to another ACM major without ETSU’s receipt of a new certification letter stating new ACM major.