Better credentials start with
better evidence

CredLens is a national nonprofit and neutral source of high-quality outcomes data for degree and non-degree credentials. We connect issuer-verified credential records to real-world employment, earnings, and education outcomes and deliver those insights through a secure, interactive platform.

CredLens serves credential issuers — certification bodies, 2- and 4-year colleges, and workforce training providers — along with the funders and policymakers who invest in credential outcomes. Each audience uses CredLens outcomes data differently: issuers demonstrate program value, while funders and policymakers evaluate investment decisions. Learn more about who CredLens serves →

Getting started begins with a conversation about your program, data readiness, and goals. From there, we outline next steps together, including an expected timeline and what data you'll need to share. Talk to our team →

From data submission to initial dashboards is typically within two months, depending on data readiness, agreement and security review, and record completeness. Once dashboards are live, you have ongoing access, and results can be refreshed as new data cycles are processed.

CredLens begins with credential issuers—the verified source of record for who holds a credential. You share verified records of credential holders, and we match those records to earnings, employment, and education data from multiple high-quality sources. We return the resulting outcomes through the CredLens Insights Platform, with transparency into source coverage, methodology, and match rates.
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Surveys can add valuable context about learner experiences and goals. But for employment and earnings outcomes, they depend on who responds and must be administered again and again. CredLens starts with your verified credential-holder records and matches them to data from multiple high-quality sources. You get consistent, longitudinal outcomes evidence that can be refreshed over time—without rebuilding a survey or commissioning a new study for every question. Explore the outcomes CredLens provides →

CredLens is structured to serve the credential ecosystem, not to sell or license the data organizations share with us. Revenue from partner contracts supports our operations and continued investment in data quality, security, and infrastructure. Our nonprofit structure reinforces our role as a neutral source of outcomes data: we provide the evidence, and you decide how to evaluate and use it.
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No. CredLens does not evaluate, rate, rank, publish, or share your data. We provide clear, neutral data and insights that you can evaluate against your own goals. You retain ownership and control of your data and decide what, if anything, to share externally.

CredLens is purpose-built to steward sensitive data under clear rules about how data is contributed, accessed, and used. Our security and privacy infrastructure is certified to ISO/IEC 27001:2022 and ISO/IEC 27018:2019 standards, with SOC 2 Type II, SOC 3, and TX-RAMP compliance. We return aggregated outcomes and suppress results for groups that are too small to protect individual privacy.
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