College, on the learner's terms.
CrediNova is a self-paced learning platform built on the conviction that great college teaching belongs to everyone — regardless of zip code, schedule, or budget.
Rigorous
Courses written by college instructors, structured around the same outcomes you'd see on a syllabus.
Recommended for credit
Our courses are reviewed and recommended by ACE for credit at 40+ partner colleges.
Open
Self-paced, online, and priced for the learner — not the institution.
Our mission
Make college credit affordable, accessible, and earnable on your schedule.
We believe the bottleneck in higher education isn't talent or curiosity — it's access. CrediNova exists to remove the frictions of cost, schedule, and rigid pacing so every motivated learner can finish what they start.
Our vision
A world where a degree is a milestone — not a maze.
We see a future where learners stack credits from the courses that fit their lives, transfer them seamlessly to the colleges they choose, and graduate without the debt or detours that hold so many back today.
What we stand for
Core values
Five principles guide every course, feature, and decision at CrediNova.
Learner-first
Every product decision starts with the learner: their time, their budget, their goals.
Academic integrity
Rigorous content, honest assessments, and credit recommendations you can trust.
Access for all
No gatekeeping. No prerequisites you can't meet. Learning open to anyone, anywhere.
Curiosity
We design for the spark — courses meant to ignite questions, not just deliver answers.
Community
Coaches, peers, and instructors who show up for learners through every milestone.
Continuous improvement
We measure what learners actually finish, then keep refining until more of them do.
The team
We're a small team of instructional designers, engineers, and former college faculty. We've taught the courses, sat through the platforms that didn't work, and built the one we wished we'd had.
Our journey
Company timeline
From a single course to a catalog trusted by thousands of learners and partner colleges across the country.
- 2019
Founded in a faculty office
Three former college instructors sketch CrediNova on a whiteboard — a self-paced platform where credit is earned, not just enrolled in.
- 2020
First five courses launch
Introductory English, Statistics, Psychology, Microeconomics, and US History go live to a beta cohort of 240 learners.
- 2021
ACE credit recommendation
Our first courses are reviewed and recommended for college credit by the American Council on Education.
- 2022
10,000 learners enrolled
We cross five figures of active learners and expand the catalog to 30+ courses across the general-education core.
- 2023
40+ partner colleges
A growing network of accredited institutions accepts CrediNova credits toward associate and bachelor's degrees.
- 2024
Mobile learning, fully redesigned
A ground-up redesign brings the full course experience — video, quizzes, milestones, touchstones — to phones and tablets.
- 2025
50+ courses & a learner coach for everyone
The catalog passes 50 courses, and every subscriber gets a dedicated learning coach included at no extra cost.