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Colleges That Accept Homeschooled Students
Basic Info | After High School  

These lists were compiled by the Home School Legal Defense Association and Learn in Freedom.com. We have included these lists only to encourage you, not to limit your choices. Even colleges who give discouraging comments initially, often later admit the student.   

Rating Colleges & Universities by Their Home School Admission Policy
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HSLDA rates colleges and universities in tiers, based on their admissions policies for homeschoolers. Tier I colleges typically required a parent’s transcript, general standardized achievement testing, and/or the review of a portfolio of the potential student’s materials in place of an accredited diploma.

Many Tier II institutions based their admission criterion of a GED on a federal requirement for financial aid in the Ability to Benefit. However, this federal requirement no longer applies since the passage of a homeschool amendment to the Higher Education Act of 1998.

Colleges who ask homeschoolers to take extra standardized exams, and colleges requiring homeschooled students to score higher than traditionally-schooled students on standardized achievement tests or entrance exams, are grouped in Tier III.  

Colleges That Admit Homeschoolers [Learning in Freedom.com] The Colleges That Admit Homeschoolers List is one of the most accurate resources of its kind, informing prospective students and their parents about the college admission process. This site lists more than 780 colleges—in five countries—that admit homeschoolers, and includes links to an extensive bibliography of college guides, a searchable database of homeschool-friendly campuses, and a list of colleges rated by College Rating Guides.