Homeschool Dual Enrollment in Georgia
Yes. Georgia's Dual Enrollment program is open to students in an eligible home study program and pays standard tuition, mandatory fees, and required books for approved courses at participating colleges.
How dual enrollment works for homeschoolers
The Georgia Student Finance Commission (GSFC) runs Dual Enrollment through its GAfutures website. Courses earn both high school and college credit at participating public colleges in the University System of Georgia (USG) and the Technical College System of Georgia (TCSG), and at participating private colleges.
For a home study student, the parent acts as the high school. You set up the program's account on GAfutures and approve your child's courses for each term, and your child files the annual funding application.
Colleges must waive mandatory fees and may not charge a Dual Enrollment student extra tuition, fees, or book costs for approved courses. They must provide required textbooks, or the online access code that replaces them, at no cost.
Funding stops at 30 semester hours or 45 quarter hours, or when your child finishes home study, whichever comes first. A term is capped at 15 semester hours.
Before your child can enroll
Grade level
Juniors and seniors may take any approved course. A 10th grader may take approved career, technical, and agricultural education courses at a technical college, or any approved course with an SAT score of 1200 or an ACT composite of 26 from one test date. Ninth graders are not eligible.
Residency and approvals
Your child is a Georgia resident before the first day of classes, is approved by your home study program, and is admitted by the college.
Participation agreement
You and your child complete the Student Participation Agreement as part of the application.
Satisfactory progress
Your child keeps up satisfactory academic progress as the college defines it.
Enrolling in a college course
First step
Ask a participating college how it admits home study students, and start its admission application.
Course and funding limits
Funding does not pay to repeat or retake a course. After withdrawing from Dual Enrollment courses twice, your child loses funding for future terms. All coursework must be finished before home study completion to count.
What it costs
A family pays only for what falls outside the program: courses missing from the Dual Enrollment course directory, hours past the funding cap, and a fine of up to $75 for a lost or damaged loaned book.
When to apply
Apply to the college and file the funding application before the term starts. If your child uses an SAT or ACT score, send it to GSFC before you approve courses.
A homeschool plan alongside college courses
We teach the subjects your teen takes at home and generate the homeschool transcript from that coursework.
$149/month per child after the trial.