Credential evaluation reports for foreign degrees

[Lainie B 465]

Does anyone have any advice on credential evaluation report services? I have applied for a job that is requesting a report on my foreign degrees. Unfortunately the places I have been looking into usually require originals of both the transcript and the certificate itself. I have the transcripts but not the certificates as they are framed and back in Australia and I can't get them, and since they are one-off documents I would not want to send them anyway, since most of these agencies seem to want to keep the originals.

Has anyone here used such a service with just the transcripts? Have they returned the transcripts to you at the end? Do you have any recommendations?

[Harsh_77 718]

Does anyone have any advice on credential evaluation report services? I have applied for a job that is requesting a report on my foreign degrees. Unfortunately the places I have been looking into usually require originals of both the transcript and the certificate itself. I have the transcripts but not the certificates as they are framed and back in Australia and I can't get them, and since they are one-off documents I would not want to send them anyway, since most of these agencies seem to want to keep the originals.

Has anyone here used such a service with just the transcripts? Have they returned the transcripts to you at the end? Do you have any recommendations?

I don’t remember the exact name of the place, but that was recommended by my school and school was accepting their evaluation.

They required much more than just transcript and degree, they wanted to know the content of each course as well.

I had only sent them the certified copy of the degree and the course content.

[milimelo 4,477]

When I was looking into grad school, I sent off for degree evaluation to ece.org (I think the other one is wes.org) but I went with what the school recommended. Only sent copies of the diploma and transcripts and asked for the basic evaluation. The ECE rep attempted to get me to pay for a higher level of evaluation where I'd also have to get them syllabus from each and every course I took by saying that's what the school required, but after checking with school that turned out not to be true so I passed on that.

Copies of degree and transcripts are perfectly ok - if your degree is framed, take it to kinkos and scan it/copy it.

[Italian Mom 1]

Does anyone have any advice on credential evaluation report services? I have applied for a job that is requesting a report on my foreign degrees. Unfortunately the places I have been looking into usually require originals of both the transcript and the certificate itself. I have the transcripts but not the certificates as they are framed and back in Australia and I can't get them, and since they are one-off documents I would not want to send them anyway, since most of these agencies seem to want to keep the originals.

Has anyone here used such a service with just the transcripts? Have they returned the transcripts to you at the end? Do you have any recommendations?

HI,

Last year I did my evaluation from both (ECE and WES). The reason was because they were rated differently from people complaining about not recognizing the right level of education and delays. Furthermore WES will ask you the documents to be sent directly from the institutions you completed your education and for some people this is extremely hard, since they might not have family members to take care of that or the schools might delay the mailing. Those will be considered as originals, so you will not have any chance to see them. Well, I asked my schools to send me a scanned copy.

ECE instead requires only copies (translated), so no need to worry about sending them directly by your school and/or original documents.They will ask you for originals only if they think they need them. In my case copies were ok.

There is also a difference in recognizing your titles. I have a BS in Economics and a MS in International Marketing; WES recognized both of them, while ECE put them together to only recognize me a bachelors in business administration which makes no sense to me.

Before sending out your papers look with the school or company you will be going to utilize them, they might be able to tell you from which they want the evaluation. Also google the name of both companies and you will see the different complains that people have put out there.

There are also other evaluation companies in Florida, California and other states, but you need to know first if they are acceptable by who is asking you for them.

Hope this can help.