Abstract: The present application discloses methods and systems configured to help students navigate and understand the requirements and options for courses selection, academic programs, and transferring credits to or from another college or university. Presented are several innovative graphical methods with an automated cleaning back-end method and device designed to present in intuitive ways the requirements of and paths toward degree completion. In some embodiments, a program mapper webtool takes static course information and transforms it into an interactive online tool. The program mapper uses data that has been verified or cleaned by a data cleanup tool. The program mapper presents the verified data as pathways to guide students through a selected educational path. The program mapper may further include an authoring tool that allows authorized users to build school-specific program maps based on its own academic programs and requirements.