Credential Engine works alongside various organizations, associations, agencies, companies, employers, and education and training providers to deliver value and thought leadership to the credential landscape. We don’t do anything alone. Instead, we take a collaborative approach to our work.
Learn MoreThere are many ways to get involved with credential transparency. Regardless of which stage of the process you find yourself in, Credential Engine has various resources you can use to learn about, plan for, and work to create a transparent credential marketplace. The resources in this Toolkit are designed to help inform and guide your work.
Learn MoreIn order to make credentials transparent, there needs to be consistent information across all regions at the state and federal levels. Once states understand the value of credential transparency, they can make the case for its usefulness and push for adoption.
Learn MoreThe Credential Transparency Description Language (CTDL) is a global, de facto standard for describing credentials, providers, competencies, programs, assessments, indicators of quality, outcomes, pathways, and links to job skills such as linked, open, interoperable data.
Learn MoreOur product and service providers verify that their products and services have repeatable models. This allows us to continuously advance credential transparency through the use of CTDL and the Credential Registry.
Learn MoreWorking towards a better-connected learning and work ecosystem requires collaboration and planning. Credential Engine has developed the following resources for state leaders to use to learn about, plan for, and implement policies and practices to create a transparent credential marketplace.
Learn MoreSeven state leadership organizations and five workforce, education, and data advocacy/technical assistance experts have come together to coauthor a series of Policy Briefs that build awareness, understanding, and guidance on how state policy can integrate credential transparency into education and workforce development strategies.
Learn MoreThis resource is built by experts to build awareness, understanding, and demand for how policies can integrate credential transparency into education and workforce development state strategies.
Learn MoreLead Partner: Governor’s Office of Education and Workforce Transformation
In addition to Credential Engine, Idaho partners with:
Alabama Commission on Higher Education
Alabama Department of Labor
Alabama Department of Commerce
Alabama Committee on Credentialing and Career Pathways
Lead Partner: Governor’s Office of Education and Workforce Transformation
In addition to Credential Engine, Wyoming partners with:
Alabama Commission on Higher Education
Alabama Department of Labor
Alabama Department of Commerce
Alabama Committee on Credentialing and Career Pathways
Lead Partner: Governor’s Office of Education and Workforce Transformation
In addition to Credential Engine, West Virginia partners with:
Alabama Commission on Higher Education
Alabama Department of Labor
Alabama Department of Commerce
Alabama Committee on Credentialing and Career Pathways
Lead Partner: Association for Materials Performance and Protection (AMPP)
In addition to Credential Engine, Virginia partners with:
Virginia is not currently a partner with Credential Engine. This information comes from the Counting Credentials 2025Â report.
Lead Partner: Governor’s Office of Education and Workforce Transformation
In addition to Credential Engine, Utah partners with:
Alabama Commission on Higher Education
Alabama Department of Labor
Alabama Department of Commerce
Alabama Committee on Credentialing and Career Pathways
Lead Partner: Tennessee Board of Regents
In addition to Credential Engine, Tennessee partners with:
The Tennessee Board of Regents is pursuing large-scale implementation of a Comprehensive Learner Record (CLR). This system utilizes the Credential Engine Registry to support the housing of competencies associated with the credentials offered by the institutions.
To date, Credential Engine has published 37 institutions across Community Colleges and the TCAT schools in the state. Throughout those institutions, we have published over 1,000 Competency Frameworks for the institutions.
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Lead Partner: Governor’s Office of Education and Workforce Transformation
In addition to Credential Engine, South Carolina partners with:
Alabama Commission on Higher Education
Alabama Department of Labor
Alabama Department of Commerce
Alabama Committee on Credentialing and Career Pathways
Lead Partner: Governor’s Office of Education and Workforce Transformation
In addition to Credential Engine, Oregon partners with:
Alabama Commission on Higher Education
Alabama Department of Labor
Alabama Department of Commerce
Alabama Committee on Credentialing and Career Pathways
Lead Partner: Governor’s Office of Education and Workforce Transformation
In addition to Credential Engine, Oklahoma partners with:
Alabama Commission on Higher Education
Alabama Department of Labor
Alabama Department of Commerce
Alabama Committee on Credentialing and Career Pathways
Lead Partner: Governor’s Office of Education and Workforce Transformation
In addition to Credential Engine, North Carolina partners with:
North Carolina has steadily expanded its commitment to credential transparency through a set of regional partnerships that make education and workforce information clearer, more comparable, and easier to navigate for learners, workers, educators, and employers. Since 2021, North Carolina has collaborated with Credential Engine to publish learning opportunities, career pathways, and industry recognized credentials to the Credential Registry, building a statewide ecosystem where high‑quality, linked open data supports informed decision‑making.
Use the Credential Finder to explore North Carolina’s published data in the Credential Registry!
Lead Partner: Governor’s Office of Education and Workforce Transformation
In addition to Credential Engine, New Mexico partners with:
Alabama Commission on Higher Education
Alabama Department of Labor
Alabama Department of Commerce
Alabama Committee on Credentialing and Career Pathways
Lead Partner: Nevada Governor's Office of Workforce Innovation (GOWINN)
In addition to Credential Engine, Nevada partners with:
Credential Engine assisted Nevada in making credentials available through Project SANDI (Supporting and Advancing Nevada’s Dislocated Individuals), which helped dislocated and underemployed workers, along with new job seekers to access and get funding for workforce training programs in critical industry sectors, including advanced manufacturing, health care, information technology, and skilled trades.
Nevada published over 100 credentials in critical industry sectors, including advanced manufacturing, health care, information technology, and skilled trades.
Lead Partner: Governor’s Office of Education and Workforce Transformation
In addition to Credential Engine, Nebraska partners with:
Alabama Commission on Higher Education
Alabama Department of Labor
Alabama Department of Commerce
Alabama Committee on Credentialing and Career Pathways
Lead Partner: Accelerate Montana
In addition to Credential Engine, Montana partners with:
Lead Partner: Governor’s Office of Education and Workforce Transformation
In addition to Credential Engine, Missouri partners with:
Alabama Commission on Higher Education
Alabama Department of Labor
Alabama Department of Commerce
Alabama Committee on Credentialing and Career Pathways
Lead Partner: Governor’s Office of Education and Workforce Transformation
In addition to Credential Engine, Mississippi partners with:
Alabama Commission on Higher Education
Alabama Department of Labor
Alabama Department of Commerce
Alabama Committee on Credentialing and Career Pathways
Lead Partner: Governor’s Office of Education and Workforce Transformation
In addition to Credential Engine, Maryland partners with:
Alabama Commission on Higher Education
Alabama Department of Labor
Alabama Department of Commerce
Alabama Committee on Credentialing and Career Pathways
Lead Partner: Governor’s Office of Education and Workforce Transformation
In addition to Credential Engine, Kentucky partners with:
Alabama Commission on Higher Education
Alabama Department of Labor
Alabama Department of Commerce
Alabama Committee on Credentialing and Career Pathways
Lead Partner: Governor’s Office of Education and Workforce Transformation
In addition to Credential Engine, Hawaii partners with:
Alabama Commission on Higher Education
Alabama Department of Labor
Alabama Department of Commerce
Alabama Committee on Credentialing and Career Pathways
Lead Partner: Governor’s Office of Education and Workforce Transformation
In addition to Credential Engine, Georgia partners with:
Credential Engine is partnering with the Metro Atlanta Chamber to improve credential transparency across Georgia.
Georgia has published over 7,000 credentials to the Credential Registry!
Lead Partner: Governor’s Office of Education and Workforce Transformation
In addition to Credential Engine, Delaware partners with:
Alabama Commission on Higher Education
Alabama Department of Labor
Alabama Department of Commerce
Alabama Committee on Credentialing and Career Pathways
Lead Partner: Credential Engine is working with the California MAP Initiative to build a statewide Credential Registry aimed at increasing recognition of credit for prior learning. Credential Engine also has partnerships with Chaffey College and the Foothill-De Anza region, which have each published credentials, courses, and competencies.
In addition to Credential Engine, California partners with:
California is using CTDL to standardize and share credential and Credit for Prior Learning (CPL) data statewide, making opportunities more transparent and accessible for students, veterans, working adults, and apprentices. This approach reduces barriers to degrees, strengthens policy alignment, and supports innovations in advising, workforce planning, and AI-driven tools, with colleges across the state already publishing credentials, courses, and competencies to the Registry.
California has published over 2,500 credentials to the Registry!
Lead Partner: Arkansas Division of Information Systems (DIS)
In addition to Credential Engine, Arkansas partners with:
Arkansas partners with Credential Engine to develop a comprehensive statewide registry of learn and work data that supports the state’s skills-based workforce strategy. This includes providing critical information to learners, workers, career-seekers, and employers through the state’s career navigation portal, Arkansas LAUNCH, and learning and employment records.Â
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Lead Partner: Governor’s Office of Education and Workforce Transformation
In addition to Credential Engine, Arizona partners with:
Alabama Commission on Higher Education
Alabama Department of Labor
Alabama Department of Commerce
Alabama Committee on Credentialing and Career Pathways
Lead Partner: Governor’s Office of Education and Workforce Transformation
In addition to Credential Engine, Alaska partners with:
Alabama Commission on Higher Education
Alabama Department of Labor
Alabama Department of Commerce
Alabama Committee on Credentialing and Career Pathways
Lead Partner: Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education
In addition to Credential Engine, Pennsylvania partners with:
Lead Partner: New England Board of Higher Education
In addition to Credential Engine, New Hampshire partners with:
Southern New Hampshire University (SNHU) is a long-time supporter of credential and skill transparency and partner with Credential Engine. Additionally, through a strategic collaboration with the New England Board of Higher Education, New Hampshire has successfully published all credentials from the Community College System of New Hampshire to the Credential Registry.Â
Southern New Hampshire University has published extensive information to the Credential Registry, including credentials, learning opportunities, its competency framework, and support services.
The University of New Hampshire and seven community colleges have published over 600 credentials in the Credential Registry.
Lead Partner: Advance Vermont
In addition to Credential Engine, Vermont partners with:
Vermont’s partnership with Credential Engine is building a transparent, data‑rich credential ecosystem that helps learners make informed decisions, supports employers in identifying talent pathways, and advances the state’s long‑term workforce goals.
Vermont’s work with Credential Engine centers on a statewide push for credential transparency, ensuring that learners, workers, employers, and policymakers can easily understand and compare education and training opportunities. Anchored by Advance Vermont, Vermont uses Credential Engine’s linked open data infrastructure, CTDL, to make credential information clear, accessible, and actionable for the public.
Use the Credential Finder to explore Vermont’s published data in the Credential Registry!
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Lead Partner: New England Board of Higher Education
In addition to Credential Engine, Massachusetts partners with:
Bristol Community College – As a Gates Grant recipient, Bristol Community College is committed to improving its data landscape for curriculum, faculty, and staff.
Bristol has published credentials, courses, competency frameworks, and institutional job classifications to the Credential Registry to support skills-based hiring.
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Lead Partner: New England Board of Higher Education
In addition to Credential Engine, Rhode Island partners with:
Through a strategic collaboration with the New England Board of Higher Education (NEBHE), we worked to build participation of Rhode Island’s public institutions and independent colleges in publishing their credentials to the Credential Registry.
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Lead Partner: New England Board of Higher Education
In addition to Credential Engine, Connecticut partners with:
In 2021, Connecticut passed legislation to create a statewide database of credentials, led by the Office of Higher Education and Office of Workforce Strategy in partnership with the New England Board of Higher Education and Credential Engine. The initiative is designed to make credential information transparent and accessible for students, job seekers, employers, and policymakers, supporting informed education and workforce decisions. As an early milestone, the state published community college credential data using the Credential Transparency Description Language (CTDL), a national standard that enables meaningful comparisons and integrates labor market insights to highlight the content, quality, and value of credentials.
Connecticut has published over 3,000 credentials to the Registry!
Lead Partner: New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development
In addition to Credential Engine, New Jersey partners with:
Credential Engine’s partnership with New Jersey brings together the New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development (NJDOL) and the New Jersey Community Colleges Consortium (NJCCC) to improve the transparency and interoperability of the state’s education and workforce data. Through the Credential Registry, NJCCC has published credit-bearing credentials, courses, and competency frameworks from all 18 New Jersey community colleges, while NJDOL continues to advance statewide initiatives that use structured, linked data to improve education and workforce navigation.
Use the Credential Finder to explore New Jersey’s published data in the Credential Registry.
Lead Partner: Ohio Department of Higher Education
In addition to Credential Engine, Ohio partners with:
Ohio is a longtime Credential Engine partner working to align postsecondary credentials with workforce needs. With support from a 2025 Gates grant, 17 community colleges added credential data to the Registry, alongside manufacturing competency frameworks and stackable credentials. Ohio Jobs and Family Services also added nearly 800 occupations and related workforce outcomes, creating a clearer view of pathways from credentials to careers.
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Lead Partner: Indiana Commission for Higher Education
In addition to Credential Engine, Indiana partners with:
With over 4,000 credentials published to the Credential Registry, including all offered by the public two-year and four-year institutions, Indiana is using CTDL to power user tools that help Hoosiers make the most informed decisions on their education and career pathways.
Lead Partner: Michigan Department of Labor and Economic Opportunity
In addition to Credential Engine, Michigan partners with:
The Michigan Department of Labor and Economic Opportunity’s Office of Employment and Training (LEO-E&T), together with Credential Engine, is making it easier for Michiganders to learn about credentials that lead to high-demand, high-paying jobs in the state.
Michigan has published more than 350 training providers and over 3,600 credentials.
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In addition to Credential Engine, Illinois partners with:
ProPath Illinois worked to enhance and align the data most important for career pathway decision-making. The project’s goal was to empower learners and workers of all ages with comprehensive and actionable information on learning opportunities and credentials to make optimal decisions about their education and career pathways.
The Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity has published over 3,000 credentials, learning outcomes, and additional information.
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Lead Partner: University of Wisconsin System
In addition to Credential Engine, Wisconsin partners with:
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In addition to Credential Engine, Iowa partners with:
Credential Engine worked with the Iowa Department of Education’s Community College and Workforce Preparation Division to inventory all credentials in the state and publish all credentials and their competencies in their jurisdiction to the Credential Registry.
Over 1,100 credentials from 14 community colleges have been published by the Iowa Department of Education’s Community College and Workforce Preparation Division.
Lead Partner: Minnesota Office of Higher Education, Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development, and Minnesota State Colleges and Universities
In addition to Credential Engine, Minnesota partners with:
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In addition to Credential Engine, South Dakota partners with:
The South Dakota Board of Technical Education received a grant from the Lumina Foundation to modernize and expand its program inventory, develop a quality framework, and adopt aligned program approval and review policies. In order to meet these goals, they utilized CTDL to map their new program inventory.
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In addition to Credential Engine, North Dakota partners with:
North Dakota University System
North Dakota Statewide Longitudinal Data System
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Lead Partner: Florida Department of Education
In addition to Credential Engine, Florida partners with:
To implement a statewide vision for workforce and education data integration, the Florida Department of Education directed a multi-agency coalition to standardize information on credentials, which powers the Education Meets Opportunity Platform (EMOP). EMOP provides Florida agencies and leaders with consistent data on all Florida credential programs aligned to the Credential Transparency Description Language (CTDL).
Florida has published over 10,000 credentials to the Credential Registry offered by public colleges and universities and WIOA Eligible Training Providers.Â
Lead Partner: Governor’s Office of Education and Workforce Transformation
In addition to Credential Engine, Alabama partners with:
Credential Engine has partnered with the Alabama State Department of Education, Career Technical Education and Vendor EBSCO in the creation of an Alabama Credential Registry – The Alabama Talent Triad.
Alabama has published over 1530 credentials to the Registry!
Lead Partner: Louisiana Community and Technical College System
In addition to Credential Engine, Louisiana partners with:
Through a project to publish credentials offered by Louisiana community and technical colleges to the Credential Registry, it will allow students to search for and understand education and career options as they transition to continued education and training or the workforce.Â
Louisiana community and technical colleges have published over 800 credentials to the Credential Registry.
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In addition to Credential Engine, Texas partners with:
Tri-Agency Workforce Initiative:
Credential Engine is supporting the development of the Texas Credential Library with the Tri-Agency Workforce Initiative – which brings together the Texas Education Agency (TEA), Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board (THECB), and Texas Workforce Commission (TWC) – to establish the state’s first credential library where all available credentials delivered, issued, funded, or governed by the state will be housed and made transparently available to all Texans.Â
The Texas Credential Library includes more than 23,000 credentials, as well as learning opportunities, occupations, and outcomes.
Lead Partner: Kansas Board of Regents
In addition to Credential Engine, Kansas partners with:
The Kansas Board of Regents (KBOR) which serves as the coordinating board for all public institutions in the state is committed to advancing credential transparency statewide because they believe deeply in its value. The availability of credential information in a common, consistent language has significantly enhanced KBOR’s ability to share data with other state agencies and contributed to their larger goal of increasing visibility and comparability across state lines. State leaders are using linked open data as a catalyst to make more intentional connections–not just within their own state, but also across the entire Midwest region.
Kansas has published over 2,500 credentials and learning opportunities and nearly 3,000 transfer values for the public colleges and universities.Â
Lead Partner: Colorado Workforce Development Council (CWDC)
In addition to Credential Engine, Colorado partners with:
Colorado state agencies work with Credential Engine to apply the Credential Transparency Description Language (CTDL) to the state’s Credential of Value Framework (COV) for use with the Eligible Training Provider List (ETPL), Career Development Incentive Program (CDIP), and other credential lists, as applicable.
Colorado has published over 3,400 credentials to the Registry!
Lead Partner | Midwestern Higher Education Compact
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Lead Partner | Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation
In addition to Credential Engine, Kansas City partners with:
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Lead Partner: Washington Workforce Training & Education Coordinating Board
In addition to Credential Engine, Washington partners with:
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In addition to Credential Engine, New York partners with:
New York Association of Training and Employment Professionals
Future Skills Exchange (FSX)
New York Department of Labor
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New York City Public Schools are publishing FutureReadyNYC pathways as linked, open, interoperable data using the Credential Transparency Description Language (CTDL) in the Credential Registry and have embedded Credential Engine pathway widgets on the FutureReadyNYC Student Pathways website to help learners explore technology career pathways.
Separately, the New York State Department of Labor partners with Credential Engine to ensure credentials developed or delivered through federal Reimagine Workforce Preparation (RWP) grants are publicly accessible, transparent, and interoperable.
Lead Partner: New England Board of Higher Education
In addition to Credential Engine, Maine partners with:
The University of Maine System and the Maine Community College System, together with the New England Board of Higher Education, are providing Mainers with transparent, comparable information about credentials available in the state.
The university and community colleges in Maine have published over 500 credentials.
Lead Partner: Forsyth Technical Community College (North Carolina)
In addition to Credential Engine, Forsyth County partners with:
A consortium of 8 community colleges across the Piedmont Triad region is making credentials and competencies available as linked open data to strengthen the advanced manufacturing sector, as part of its Aligning the Workforce Education System for Manufacturing (AWESM) project.
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A consortium of 8 community colleges across the Piedmont Triad region is making credentials and competencies available as linked open data to strengthen the advanced manufacturing sector, as part of its Aligning the Workforce Education System for Manufacturing (AWESM) project.
Lead Partner: UNITE-LA
In addition to Credential Engine, Los Angeles partners with:
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Lead Partner: Dallas College
In addition to Credential Engine, Dallas partners with:
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Lead Partner: Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation
In addition to Credential Engine, Kansas City partners with:
Kansas Board of Regents
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In addition to Credential Engine, The New England Region partners with:
New England Board of Higher Education
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In addition to Credential Engine, The Midwest Region partners with:
Midwestern Higher Education Compact