32% of college students take more than 6 years to graduate. Course sharing can change that.

As instructional costs rise and students’ demand for flexibility increases, it can feel impossible to expand academic opportunities while staying within budget. Parchment Course Sharing is a flexible, cost-effective, digital solution that enables you to collaboratively offer courses with partner institutions that count for credit towards a student’s degree.

• **Help students finish faster: **Eliminate students’ barriers to completing degree requirements by making it easy to find and register for transferable courses from partner institutions.
• **Improve student retention: **Incentivize students to remain at your institution by providing them with streamlined access to additional options beyond your institution’s offerings.
• **Optimize resources: **Create additional course inventory, maximize seat capacity, and control instructional costs by making courses available to learners at multiple institutions.
• **Save time with automation: **Automate student enrollment, registration, and course catalog updates using secure integration with your SIS and other IT infrastructure.

Expand your academic offerings and improve degree completion by collaboratively offering courses across partner institutions, a consortium, or a state system.

• Increased on-time completion
• Greater student retention
• Time-saving automation

 Features

• Collaborative Course Catalog: Institutions can share course offerings with real-time seat counts and equivalency data.
• Automated Enrollment: Streamlines registration and catalog updates via SIS integration, reducing manual workload.
• Transfer Assurance: Ensures students know upfront whether a course will count toward their degree, minimizing credit loss.
• Flexible Access: Enables students to take courses not offered at their home institution, supporting diverse academic needs.
• Cost Efficiency: Helps institutions control instructional costs and fill empty seats, increasing revenue without added expense.