The Academic Common Market (ACM)
The Academic Common Market is a cooperative tuition-reduction agreement among the sixteen states that participate in the Southern Regional Education Board (SREB), which was created in 1948 by Southern governors and legislatures to help leaders in education and government work cooperatively to advance education and improve the social and economic life of the region.
How does the ACM program help?
The Academic Common Market(ACM) allows qualified students from participating states to apply for reduced tutition rates in other participating states while seeking degress in programs that are not available in the home state's university system.
Under this program, qualified students may apply to out-of-state programs and be eligible for reduced tuition rates and other opportunities afforded resident students who attend the institution.
To qualify for the ACM program:
- students must be considered in-state-residents by the partipating university during the time the student is seeking the specified degree program.
- no public college or university in the student's home state (state of residence) offers a degree program in his or her chosen field of study.
- the program is available in another SREB state that participates in the ACM.
- the program is available through distance learning.
- the student meets admissions requirements of the college or university that offers the program.
UNC Wilmington ACM available programs:
Marine Biology and Biological Oceanography
Oceanography, Chemical and Physical
ACM more information, application procedures and links
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