Evaluation of Bachelors Degree Credentials

[alexandra8886 0]

Hi...

I got my Bachelors Degree of Chemical Engineering in the Phils. Now, i'm planning to take MBA here in USA..I learned that I need to submit my credentials for evaluation, to assess on its equivalent to USA standard.

Anybody here who has experience on this? Any recommendation of gov't office or agency I can deal with regarding this evaluation?

Any input will be highly appreciated.

Thanks in advance..

best regards!

[one...two...tree 2,762]

I did a search awhile ago for my wife (she has a doctorate in dentistry from the PI). From what I recall, for about $70 you can get your foreign credentials evaluated.

Try this:

http://www.fis-web.com/eval_faq.html

[alexandra8886 0]

I did a search awhile ago for my wife (she has a doctorate in dentistry from the PI). From what I recall, for about $70 you can get your foreign credentials evaluated.

Try this:

http://www.fis-web.com/eval_faq.html

thanks...

[akdiver 3]

I learned that I need to submit my credentials for evaluation, to assess on its equivalent to USA standard. Anybody here who has experience on this? Any recommendation of gov't office or agency I can deal with regarding this evaluation? Any input will be highly appreciated.

What companies such as Educational Credential Evaluators Inc. (ECE) do is "evaluate" your existing degree and transcript and determine their U.S. equivalents - and then issue a transcript-like document that indicates the results of that evaluation. They do not issue a degree, they do not transfer your credits to any kind of degree program, or do anything beyond an evaluation of your credentials.

It is up to you to do something productive with this evaluation. Your choices are basically:

A]. Use the evaluation credential as proof of your education for employers who ask.

B]. Use the evaluation credential as a basis for admission or continuation of education with a university.

Note that employers may or may not accept the evaluation as valid. They may have their own "preferred provider" for such services, or may not give any weight to evaluation credentials, no matter who they are from (although this strikes me as unreasonable).

Universities are experienced with this kind of thing and usually have a list of "acceptable" evaluators. If you think you may need to complete an education with a university near you, your first step should be to get their list and see who is on it, and then use someone on that list for your credential evaluation needs.

Note that companies such as ECE generally require a translation of the original transcripts into English!! The university on the other hand did not seem to care (but this may vary). To be successful in this process, I recommend getting at least 4 copies of all transcripts from all institutions. Get one of them professionally translated into English, and get 4 copies of the translation. This gives you one sealed transcript to send to ECE, one to send to the university, one for the licensing board (if necessary) and one to keep for yourself. If you need to deal with more universities or licensing boards, scale up accordingly.

FWIW - our local university had ECE on their list of acceptable credential evaluators, so we used them. We were very happy with the service they provided. Professional, efficient, timely, and useful. They evaluated my wife's foreign transcripts from two different institutions, gave a class by class U.S. equivalent, including title, # of credits and grade. They also evaluated her degrees. This information, along with the original transcripts from the foreign institutions, was sent directly to the university. Using this information, the university accepted her as a graduate student in a business program, and credited her with having completed two undergraduate degrees and a graduate degree. Since she already had a graduate degree, she was not required to take the TOEFL or GMAT tests (which saved us more than we paid for the ECE evaluation).

She has recently completed the graduate program here at the local university and now the education portion of her resume reads like this:

Education (foreign degrees are U.S. Equivalent shown, as certified by Educational Credential Evaluators, Inc., Milwaukee, WI)

M.S. (Subject), University, City, State, Month Year.

M.S. (Subject), University, City, Country, Month Year.

B.B.A. (Subject), University, City, Country, Month Year.

B.A. (Subject), University, City, Country, Month Year.

Note the degree type and name for the foreign degrees is as evaluated and determined by ECE, not us. With this on her resume, she got a number of interviews and job offers before getting her current job and before completing her second M.S. locally. Now that she has finished this program and added the local degree to her resume (as shown above) she is getting plenty of interviews, for good jobs. So far, in no instance has any employer or potential employer questioned the foreign degrees, or the note about foreign degrees being U.S. equivalent shown.

Cheers!

AKDiver

[alexandra8886 0]

Hi AKDiver..

thank you so much...

cheers!