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

Nearly one-third of learners face challenges completing a 4-year degree in six years. To address this, many higher education systems are exploring course sharing as a potential solution to expand access to academic opportunity and help students stay on track.

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  • Over 17,000 enrollments in 2023-2024
  • Students can take courses across institutions without extra applications
  • Boosts retention, enrollment, and degree completion
  • Enhances operational efficiency by automating complex workflows
  • Improves student experience with automated enrollment and registration
  • Includes 116 colleges with nearly 2 million students

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“We’ve had over 17,000 enrollments in 2023-24. Over 80% of those enrollments have been single-course enrollments, which suggests that students truly are using [course sharing] as a cross-enrollment tool to complete their degree…”

Dr. Marina Aminy
Executive Director, California Virtual Campus

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Why State Systems Choose Parchment Course Sharing

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Help learners finish faster

Eliminate students’ barriers to completing degree requirements by making it easy to find and register for transferable courses across institutions.

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Improve learner retention

Retain more learners by providing them with streamlined access to additional course options across multiple institutions.

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Optimize resources

Create additional course inventory, maximize seat capacity, and control instructional costs by making courses available to learners at multiple institutions.

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Save time with automation

Automate student enrollment, registration, and shared catalog updates using secure integration with your institutions’ SIS and other IT infrastructure.

Montana University System (1)
  • Montana’s vast geography and small population make course sharing essential
  • 19 public institutions, including seven tribal colleges, face challenges in offering diverse courses
  • Sharing online catalogs doubles available lower-division courses
  • Course sharing helps students access needed coursework to stay on track
  • Supports small institutions in expanding course offerings despite limited resources

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“For three quarters of our institutions, we found that sharing our online catalogs would more than double the unique lower division courses available to students.”

Joe Thiel
Interim Deputy Commissioner, Academic Research & Student Affairs, Montana University System

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