SOC Requirements and SOCAD Student Agreement

SOC Requirements

Service-members Opportunity Colleges (SOC) affiliation guarantees continuity and transferability. Dallas TeleCollege is proud to be an auxiliary network member of the SOCAD-2 Network, the Service members Opportunity Colleges Army Degrees (SOCAD) network of colleges offering associate degrees to Army personnel.

SOCAD: SOC's College Degree Plan for the Army

  • SOCAD is a system of college curriculum networks designed by SOC for Army servicemembers and their adult family members. Networks consist of groups of colleges that have agreed to accept each other's courses in a particular program of study.
  • Students can move freely among the colleges in a network without being reevaluated or worrying about whether or not courses will transfer. SOCAD-2 is the associate degree network program; SOCAD-4 is the bachelor's degree network program.
  • SOCAD-2 and SOCAD-4 colleges provide students with the opportunity to complete college degrees without losing credit because of frequent changes in duty station. Curricula, or courses of study, are offered by colleges and universities on or accessible to most Army installations worldwide.
  • Colleges within SOCAD act as "home colleges" for SOCAD students. Students begin their studies at their home college where they complete the required academic residency. SOCAD colleges and universities require no more than 25 percent of a degree program in residence, and courses taken from the college anywhere in the world at any time during study for a degree count toward residency.

SOCAD Student Agreement

  • The SOCAD Student Agreement is the official evaluation by a home college of a student's prior education and experience as it applies to his or her degree program. It gives the student a degree plan showing the courses and other requirements needed to complete the degree.
  • The Student Agreement is a "contract for degree" between the home college and the student, and it is the student's guarantee that he or she will be awarded the degree by the home college when all stated requirements have been met. When a student enrolls as a degree-seeking student at a college in a degree program that is part of the SOC Degree Network System, he or she is entitled to have a Student Agreement reflecting official evaluation after completing no more than six semester hours at the home college.
  • SOC Degree Network System Core member institutions are required to issue Student Agreements to all servicemembers (and their adult family members) who enroll in a college degree program that is listed in a Guaranteed-Transfer Network or an Auxiliary Network.

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