The Council on Occupational Education (COE) has approved Maestro College's teach-out plan through June 30, 2027. Under this plan, students can complete their degree while the College remains accredited by COE, and every student's learning journey will be updated with a path toward that goal.
The College worked intensively to secure this approval and to redesign the academic plan around each student's best possible outcome. This article explains how the teach-out works and what it means for you.
Both programs have been restructured so that the full degree can be completed by June 30, 2027. The updated credit requirements are:
All credits you have already completed count toward the new requirement.
Term dates have been updated so that the full program can be completed by June 30, 2027. Terms remain 10 weeks long, and the academic calendar now follows a more compact timeline. Your updated term dates will be shown in your learning journey. Please view the dates and plan accordingly.
Your learning journey will be updated to reflect your own path, and it will be the source of truth for your term dates, course load, and completion date. Your pace is based on the credits you still need to earn in order to reach 90 credits within the teach-out period, so it is personal to you. It is designed to help you achieve the best possible outcome: graduating with an accredited degree, or earning as many credits as you can before transferring them to a partner institution (for more information, see the article on credit transfer pathways).
Note: You will also be able to change your course load before a term begins, and increasing your pace early leaves you more flexibility in later terms.
Broadly, students fall into one of two situations:
Credits earned as planned. You have passed each course in the term it was originally scheduled, so your completed credits are in line with your original plan. Your current and next term will stay as expected, and your course load may increase gradually from the term after. You can also choose to take on more credits from the next term, which leaves you more flexibility later.
Fewer credits earned than planned. This can happen for different reasons, for example a course that needed a second attempt, or a course that was not attempted in the term it was originally scheduled. Your current term will stay as it is, and your remaining credits will be scheduled across the terms that are left; depending on how many you have, additional courses may appear as early as next term. Your learning journey will be built to give you the best possible outcome, whether that is completing the program within the teach-out or earning as many credits as you can before transferring them to a partner institution (see the article on credit transfer pathways).
Note: a scheduled course you make no progress in during a term does not count toward your attempted credits and appears again in a later term.
Courses continue to open in sequence, as they do today. The next course becomes available once the previous course has been completed and its start date has arrived. Everything else stays the same: courses lock at the end of each term, and if you need to take a retake exam, you have 7 days into the new term to do so.
Please note the distinction between courses you begin and courses you do not. A course that is started but not completed is recorded and counts toward your attempted credits under Satisfactory Academic Progress (SAP). Any course you do not start will not count toward your attempted credits, and it is simply moved to a later term. Completing each course within its term remains the most reliable way to stay on pace and finish on time.