You can only be sure of transferring credits to an American college if they were awarded by a school which is accredited by a regional American college accrediting association. Commercial companies with names like Centers, Institutes, or Academies may not necessarily be accredited American colleges. Ask them. They are sometimes affiliated with foreign schools. While a few foreign schools are accredited here, we don't think you should count on transferring credits from any foreign school unless you took them as part of a study-abroad program offered by a good four-year American college in the United States. Courses taken abroad in these programs have the same value as courses taught on the home campus. Otherwise forget about it. You don't always have to be in an American program to take language classes at a foreign university. The famous French language program at the University of Paris (Sorbonne) is open to any American with a high school diploma who can pay the bursar $1100 per semester for 12.5 class hours a week. The University of Vienna offers a similar course in German. Some students in the classroom may have signed up for the course on their own. Others sitting nearby may be taking it as part of an American college study-abroad program. You may or may not be able to transfer credit for the course from the American college, but they are paying expensive American tuition for that privilege If you want to be in Europe, we think that the ACCORD program is a good way to go. You may or may not get credit. Your tuition will be cheaper. You will earn a salary and live with a family.