In Alberta, home education is a recognized and legitimate method for completing a high school program. Students can study course outlines on their own, write challenge exams, earn credits through portfolio assessments, and be granted high school credits for their home education efforts. These credits are the same as if they were earned in a school and allow homeschool students the opportunity to earn a full high school Alberta diploma.
Homeschooling students in Alberta can earn the diploma-required 100 course credits at home through any one or more of the following options:
Homeschool students who choose to earn an Alberta Diploma must meet the diploma requirements as established by Alberta Education, and these requirements include earning 100 specified credits during grades 10-12. Click here to view the requirements for the Alberta Education diploma.
The ALIS website enables you to search a database of universities and colleges in Alberta to learn which Alberta Education credits that a particular university or college requires for general admission or for specific admission to a specific degree program. The bottom-line here is that many universities and colleges do not require a student to have earned a full Alberta diploma, but rather, these institutions require a student to have earned credits from specified courses. But…keep in mind that the requirements for specific courses and not the diploma constitute the “minimum requirements” for admission to that university or college; having the minimum requirements is not a recipe for success in a province where the competition for admission is high.
To learn more about earning Alberta Education credits for the purpose of earning the Alberta diploma, please contact our high school coordinator, Mrs. Christie Thomas, at 1-780-467-5511 or through our email form.
Several post-secondary institutions do not require that a student have a high school diploma. Instead, these post-secondary institutions require a student to have earned specified marks and credits in specified courses. For example, the Faculties of Engineering of a given university would require a student to have passed a 30-level math course and one or two specific 30-level sciences.
Homeschool students in Alberta can earn course credits at home through any one or more of the following options:
To learn more about earning Alberta Education credits, please contact our high school coordinator, Mrs. Christie Thomas, at 1-780-467-5511 or through our email form.