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Academic Common Market (ACM)

The Academic Common Market is an interstate agreement for sharing educational programs and facilities that allows students to participate in selected programs not offered in their home states without having to pay out-of-state tuition charges. The Southern Regional Education Board (SREB) coordinates the activities of the Academic Common Market for these 16 participating states: Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, and West Virginia.

One of the primary functions of the Academic Common Market is to assist states in offering together what they cannot offer alone. Programs are added to and removed from the Market on an annual basis in order to reflect the changing needs of participating states. Georgia currently makes program changes once annually during the spring.

Georgia Tech participates in the Academic Common Market in the following undergraduate degree programs and states:

All states and/or degree programs within the Academic Common Market are NOT necessarily approved at the undergraduate level at Georgia Tech.

Georgia Tech students enrolled in the Academic Common Market prior to spring 2004, please click here for ACM Student Guidelines.

ACM Policies and Procedures for Undergraduate Programs

For students wishing to enter a program as a Common Market student, the following steps are to be followed. It is the student's responsibility to contact the State Coordinator about possible access through the Academic Common Market.

  • The student applies for admission through the Office of Undergraduate Admission at Georgia Tech by the regular published deadlines. Students must first be accepted for admission into a program for which his/her state has access through the Academic Common Market. Unless accepted for admission, all other preparations could be wasted effort should the student not be accepted by the institution.

    If accepted, the student will receive a letter of acceptance for the approved ACM undergraduate degree program.

    If you need to change your major to one of the participating Academic Common Market majors, please print the Change of Major Form (If you do not have Adobe Acrobat Reader, download it free here.) and fax it to 404-894-9511 or mail it to Georgia Institute of Technology, Office of Undergraduate Admission, Atlanta, GA 30332-0320.

    Once we receive the form, a new acceptance letter with the new major will be sent to you in one to two weeks. This is the letter you will need to give to your state coordinator.
  • The student must then contact their State Coordinator to be certified as a resident of his/her home state. Each state has developed its own forms and procedures for certifying students. The criteria for certification are at least as strict as those used by the state in classifying students as residents for its own academic programs. As long as the student remains enrolled, this certification will be valid.
  • After certifying the residency of an applicant, the State Coordinator sends a notice of certification to the student and to the Institutional Coordinator at Georgia Tech. The certification certificate must be received by the Office of Undergraduate Admission by the published Georgia Tech fee payment deadline, faxed copies are not accepted. Please see the Registrar's calendar for future fee payment deadlines.
  • The Institutional Coordinator at the receiving institution will make arrangements with the appropriate officials at their institution to insure that the student is not charged out-of-state tuition fees.
  • For programs no longer available through the ACM, students already enrolled will be given a reasonable amount of time to complete the degree program while receiving ACM benefits.
  • Students approved for the ACM will be assigned a faculty advisor who meets with the student each term prior to registration for the next term to determine satisfactory academic progress in the undergraduate ACM degree program.
  • At the end of each term, the Registrar's Office at Georgia Tech reviews every ACM student's grade report, number of terms enrolled, and major to determine ACM eligibility for the next term.
  • Students eligible to continue in the program, receive a fee waiver for the next term.

To maintain eligibility:

1. Students must maintain "Good Academic Standing" as defined by Georgia Tech Rules and Regulations.
2. Students must maintain full time student status as defined by Georgia Tech Rules and Regulations.
3. Students must maintain satisfactory progress toward the appropriate undergraduate degree.
4. Students must graduate within five calendar years or six calendar years for students participating in the cooperative education program. The calendar will begin with the first term of enrollment at Tech. Therefore, students who change to an ACM major after they have enrolled at Tech must graduate within five or six years (if participating in the cooperative education program) from the first term of enrollment at Tech.
5. The appropriate Georgia Tech grade point average (GPA) must be maintained to remain eligible for the ACM waiver. The first check point will be at the end of the student's second semester at Tech. After the first check point, the student's Georgia Tech cumulative grade point average will be reviewed at the end of each subsequent term. Continuing ACM eligibility will be based on the following:

Completed GT Hours: Required GT GPA to Maintain ACM Eligibility:

  • 1-29 hours 2.8 GPA
  • 30 to 59 hours 2.9 GPA
  • 60 or more hours 3.0 GPA

Georgia Tech students requesting a change to an ACM major will be evaluated initially based on their GT GPA and again at the end of each subsequent term. Continuing ACM eligibility will be based on the above GPA guidelines.

Undergraduate State Coordinators


Alabama- Paul B. Mohr, Sr.
Director of Special Programs
Alabama Commission on Higher Education
P.O. Box 302000
Montgomery, Alabama 36130-2000
334.242.2209
FAX 334.242.0270
e-mail: pmohr@ache.state.al.us

Arkansas- Lillian K. Williams
Arkansas Department of Higher Education
State Coordinator for the Academic Common Market
114 East Capitol Avenue
Little Rock, Arkansas 72201-3818
501.371.2038
FAX 501.371.2003
e-mail: lillianw@adhe.edu
www.arkansashighered.com/AcademicAffairs/ACM.htm

Delaware- Cynthia M. Kirkpatrick
State Coordinator for the Academic Common Market
Delaware Higher Education Commission
Carvel State Office Building
820 N. French Street
Wilmington, Delaware 19801
302.577.3240
FAX 302.577.6765
e-mail: ckirkpatrick@doe.k12.de.us
www.doe.state.de.us/high%2ded/acm.index.htm

Kentucky- Jevonda G. Keith
Senior Associate for Academic Affairs
Kentucky Council on Postsecondary Education
1024 Capital Center Drive, Suite 320
Frankfort, Kentucky 40601
502.573.1555 ext.268
FAX 502.573.1535
e-mail: jevonda.keith@ky.gov
http://cpe.ky.gov/policies/academicinit/SREB/ACM.htm

Louisiana- Mary Lou Potter
State Coordinator for the Academic Common Market
Louisiana Board of regents
1201 N. Third Street, Suite 6-200
P.O. Box 3677
Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70801-3677
225.342.4253
FAX 225.342.6926
e-mail: mpotter@regents.state.la.us
http://asa.regents.state.la.us/ACM

Maryland- Genevieve Segura
Academic Common Market Coordinator
Maryland Higher Education Commission
839 Bestgate Road, Suite 400
Annapolis, MD 21401
410.260.4536
FAX 410.260.3201
e-mail: gsegura@mhec.state.md.us
www.mhec.state.md.us/higherEd/acadAff/AcademicCommonMarket/commonmarket.asp

Mississippi- Pearl Pennington
Director of Student Affairs
Mississippi Institutions of Higher Learning
3825 Ridgewood Road
Jackson, Mississippi 39211
601.432.6482
FAX 601.432.6978
e-mail: ppennington@mississippi.edu
www.ihl.state.ms.us/Academic_Affairs1/acm.htm

Oklahoma- Debbie Blanke
Associate Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs
Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education
655 Research Parkway, Suite 200
Oaklahoma City, OK 73104
405.225.9142
FAX 405.225.9230
e-mail: dblanke@osrhe.edu
www.okhighered.org/student-center/financial-aid/acm.shtml

South Carolina- R. Lynn Kelley
Associate Director, Academic Affairs & Licensing
Commission on Higher Education
1333 Main Street, Suite 200
Columbia, South Carolina 29201
803.737.2247
FAX 803.737.2297
e-mail: lkelley@che.sc.gov

Tennessee- Katrina Miller
Research and Planning Analyst
Tennessee Higher Education Commission
Parkway Towers, Suite 1900
404 James Robertson Parkway
Nashville, Tennessee 37243-0830
615.532.7977
FAX 615.741.6230
e-mail: katrina.miller@state.tn.us
http://tennessee.gov/thec/2004web/division_pages/academic_pages/acm/acmintro.html

Virginia- Darlene Derricott
Assistant to the Director of Academic Affairs and Planning
State Council of Higher Education for Virginia
James Monroe Building, 9th Floor
101 North Fourteenth Street
Richmond, Virginia 23219
804.225.2621
FAX 804.225.2604
e-mail: darlenederricott@schev.edu
www.schev.edu/students/academiccommonmkt.asp?form+xVi

West Virginia- Mark W. Stotler
Assistant Director of Academic Affairs
Higher Education Policy Commission
1018 Kanawha Blvd., East, Suite 700
Charleston, West Virginia 25301-2827
304.558.0262
FAX 304.558.1646
e-mail: stotler@hepc.wvnet.edu
www.hepc.wvnet.edu/index.asp

SREB Interim Coordinator- Mary Larson
Southern Regional Education Board
592 10th Street NW
Atlanta, Georgia 30318-5776
404.875.9211 ext.219
FAX 404.872.1477
e-mail: mary.larson @serb.org
www.sreb.org/programs/acm/acmindex.asp