 You're probably wondering, how affordable can Sailor make an actual college degree? Well, all of the courses and resources on Sailor.org are free. For many of these courses, we offer a variety of low-cost credit-by-exam assessments, and that number is growing. In order to offer students credit, we've established several pathways, including aligning our courses with pre-existing CLEP exams, with Sailor-developed assessments, which will be recommended for credit by the National College Credit Recommendation Service, and with exams created and administered by our various partners, including Excelsior College and Straterline. Now, let's compare the costs of credit at a traditional school to the cost of running credit through Sailor. For students who might be interested in taking a semester's worth of common first-year courses such as Evolutionary and Ecological Biology, Microeconomics, Statistics, American History and Intro to Western Political Thought, a public four-year institution would charge, on average, $4,706 for in-state students. With the Sailor.org root, however, earning these same credits would cost a student about $295. As additional partners align exams with Sailor courses, the number of potential transfer credits will increase, allowing us to build a stronger foundation for the future of open education.