Mastery Transcript Consortium (MTC)

Mastery Transcript Consortium® (MTC), an ETS company, is a national and global nonprofit membership organization that helps make mastery learning—or competency-based education—available to all learners. MTC accelerates equitable access to, and widespread implementation of, mastery learning models and offers flexible and scalable learning records that empower students to showcase competencies and share evidence of their learning.

MTC is part of ETS’s Skills for the Future division. Skills for the Future (SFF) is a joint initiative of ETS and the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, launched in April 2023 to reshape the educational landscape and ensure that every student is equipped with the knowledge and skills necessary to thrive in the 21st century. SFF aims to create an education system that prioritizes durable skills in addition to academic content, shifts the definition of success from time spent in the classroom to the mastery of skills and content, and focuses on learning and development that happens anywhere, whether inside or outside of the classroom.

A key driver in the national movement to transform industrial-era education systems, the Skills for the Future initiative is reimagining educational assessment, aiming to expand ways to validate competency-based learning and ensure educators have the tools needed to measure what matters most! Read more about these groundbreaking efforts and sign up for the newsletter.

MTC welcomes innovative schools and learning organizations interested in joining their global network.

If you're a school leader looking to accelerate the implementation of competency-based learning, or you have programs and curricula that do not align with traditional transcripts, MTC can help. MTC’s competency-based learning records equip learners with the skills-based credentials they need to advance along flexible postsecondary pathways.

Many K12 schools with innovative programs—interdisciplinary, project-based, and/or skills-focused—find that higher education institutions do not know how to value or weigh these programs alongside traditional curricula. MTC works directly with higher education institutions to ensure that colleges and universities receiving competency-based learning records understand how to leverage them within holistic admissions processes. To date, nearly 580 colleges and universities have accepted students who applied using either the Mastery Transcript or the MTC Learning Record.

MTC's annual Symposium provides an engaging forum in which to learn more about MTC’s digital tools and exchange lessons of experience with mission-aligned organizations.