Please note that the review timeline, process, and forms have changed under ACE’s new contract beginning April 1, 2020. The information below has been updated to reflect the new procedures. For assistance, please email
mileval@acenet.edu.
The American Council on Education (ACE) works under a contract from the Department of Defense that is administered by the
Defense Activity for Non-Traditional Education Support (DANTES). The military services set the scheduling priorities for reviews. ACE reviews military training (courses) and experiences (occupations) with the goal of awarding equivalent college credits for those experiences. The Military Guide has over 25,000 exhibits (22,000 courses and 3,400 occupations) dating back to 1954. The results of ACE military reviews appear in the
Military Guide.
An ACE military review bridges the gap between professional military education and postsecondary education. Reviews are conducted by faculty members from colleges and universities who are currently teaching in the areas they are reviewing. The review team analyzes materials, identifies learning outcomes, and recommends postsecondary credit based on its findings. Military points of contact should contact ACE directly if they have questions that are not answered here.
On April 1, 2020, ACE and the Department of Defense began work under a new contract, which is designed to improve the Department of Defense’s “capacity to evaluate, document, and communicate the college level learning gained by service members as a result of military training courses and on-the-job experiences in a credible manner accepted by a wide range of stakeholders,” including the military services and academic institutions.
Under the new contract, the review scheduling process has changed. Training sites work with their service program managers to identify projected review needs and prepare review readiness packets before reviews are officially scheduled. Service program managers deliver the completed review readiness packets to ACE 90 days before the start of the review. If the site is ready, ACE officially adds the review to the schedule 60 days before it is to start. For more information on review readiness, go to
Military Review Resources.
The instructions linked below are designed to assist military training schoolhouses in planning for and hosting successful ACE military onsite and virtual reviews.