Short-Term Credentials in Indiana: Executive Summary of RAND’s Examination of Student Outcomes

Indiana has seen a marked growth in short-term credential attainment, making these credentials an increasingly important tool in the state’s education and workforce development systems.

To better understand outcomes associated with short-term credential attainment, Ascend Indiana, with generous support from the Richard M. Fairbanks Foundation to the CICP Foundation, engaged national experts at the RAND Corporation to evaluate Indiana’s short-term credentialing landscape with the goal of informing future decisions on policy and practice.

RAND’s report—Examining Short-Term Credentials and Student Outcomes in Indiana —provides an in-depth analysis of educational and labor market outcomes of short-term credential attainment. This summary highlights key findings emerging from RAND’s work.

Readers can access the executive summary here.