International Degree Evaluation in USA Guide?
Education evaluation or international degree evaluation or foreign degree equivalency and foreign transcripts evaluation are synonyms for the way in which academic and professional degrees earned in a foreign country are compared to those earned in another one.
Why Degree Evaluation? This way licensing boards, universities, colleges, employers, or immigration authorities can easily understand the educational background of someone to judge applicants for admission or employment.
Hence, all Laboratory professionals who are intending to get the American Board of Medical Analysis (ASCP Board of Certification®) must have a foreign transcript evaluation with U.S. educational equivalency statement and course by course evaluation as an application requirement. so Let's check the types of international credential evaluation in USA.
Types of Foreign Degree Transcripts and International Degree Evaluation in USA?
Before you apply to get a International degree evaluation in USA, you should determine the type that will suit your purpose of equivalency. Totally, there are 3 types of international degree evaluations:
1. Document-by-Document Evaluation
• Provides the U.S. equivalency of your credential
• Used for freshman university admissions, employment, and U.S. immigration
2. Course-by-Course Evaluation
This is the required option for ASCP Board of Certification®.
• Provides the U.S. equivalency of your credential and U.S. GPA
• Lists your courses and grades.
• Used for transfer and graduate university admissions, and licensing boards (except CPA)
3. CPA Supplemental Report
• Analyzes your business and accounting courses for Certified Public Accountant (CPA) boards.
Where To Evaluate International Degree In USA, Recommended Foreign Degree Evaluation Service?
Although, there is a lot of international degree evaluation service providers all over the United States, you should only get your credentials evaluated from agencies that are acceptable by the ASCP Board of Certification®.
The following list is approved institution by ASCP to get ready to apply for your BOC Exam. Note that the first two agencies are our best recommendation based on the cost and time to get you service done.
- World Education Services, Inc
- Foundation for International Services, Inc.
- Educational Credential Evaluators, Inc
- Globe Language Services.
- International Consultants of Delaware, Inc.
- Educational Perspectives.
- International Education Evaluators, Inc.
- Foreign Academic Credentials Services, Inc.
- International Education Research Foundation, Inc.
- Josef Silny & Associates, Inc.
- Foreign Credentials Service of America.
What is Required to Apply for A International Degree Evaluation Agency?
Academic degree certificates (transcripts) is the only documents that you need to get your international degree evaluation in USA. You need an OFFICIAL copy of:
1. Graduate Certificate in English, for the degree earned.
2. Grades Certificate in English, lists all subjects taken and grades earned for each year of study.
But if you wondering about the word Official, let’s make it clear and tell you.
OFFICIAL Copy of Academic Degree Transcripts, What Does It Mean?
International degree evaluation agencies want to make sure that your academic records are real and not fake one when you are going to send these records yourself but not by your educational institution.
Consequently, to do so, they place the following conditions for the records to be accepted as official:
• It must be made by your school, university or college.
• It must be in a sealed envelope.
• Stamped, stamp across the back flap.
Successfully you have obtained you official academic records, asking what is next?
how to get your degree evaluated in uSA?
As a laboratory professional, MLSi Academy know how much busy you are! So to make your life easy, save your time and effort, we will show you how to get your USA degree evaluated.
Here is a step by step demo on how to apply to one of the best International degree Evaluation services. First of all, go to the World Education Services Website Here,
1. Click Get Started under, Need an Evaluation?
2. Where will you use your evaluation? Kindly, Select U.S.
3. Create an account and “kindly use your name that appears on your degree transcripts”.
3.1. Fill your first and last name
3.2. Fill your Date of Birth
3.3. Do You Have a WES reference number? NO
3.4. Add your email Address?
3.5. Add a Password?
3.6. Re-enter Your Password?
3.7. Select a Security Question?
3.8. Answer to Your Security Question?
3.9. Subscribe to WES newsletters, if you like that! me subscribed,
3.10. Hit Create Account.
4. Personal Information.
4.1. How Did You Hear About WES? Kindly Select Licensing Board,
4.2. Fill in Your Personal Information,
4.3. Fill in Your Date of Birth and Gender,
4.4. Fill in Your Mailing Address,
The must fields to fill are Country, Street/P.O. Box, City and Telephone.
4.5. Review Your Login Information
5. Eevaluation Report Purpose
5.1.What Is The Primary Purpose of This Evaluation?
Select Professional License/Certification
5.2. Select Licensing/Certification Type?
Select: Health Science related fields
5.2. Select Licensing State? Does Not Matter Select Any,
6. Education
A big advantage of WES as an International Credential Evaluation service is that you can evaluate all your certificates (Bachelor, Master and/or Doctor of Philosophy) at one flat fee not per A certificate as it's done by many services!
6.1. What Credentials Have You Earned?
“Please enter your higher education credentials for analysis. If you have completed less than one year full-time, post-secondary study, WES recommends that you also include your secondary education credential.”
6.1.1. Click Add Credentials,
6.1.2. Fill in the required info for each degree you want to evaluate as shown below,
6.1.2.1. Bachelor's Degree,
6.1.2.2. Master Degree,
6.1.2.3. Doctor of Philosophy,
Note: Academic Records Request Form Is Not Mandatory.
7. Report Recipient.
7.1. Please Enter The Recipients You Would Like WES To Send Your Evaluation Report To.
7.1.1. Recipient 1: You:
Review Your Provided Address to Receive Your Copy.
7.1.1.1. Would You Like To Order Additional Copies For Yourself? It’s Up To You!
7.1.2. Recipient 2: Institution(s) Receiving Your Report:
You don't need this option as you will send a scanned copy of your reports to ASCP BOC via this email [email protected], for more information about Online Application Process for ASCP (BOC)® Exam,
7.1.3. Hit next
8. DegreeEvaluation Package Type
Remember that Course By Course Evaluation is what Board of Certification needs so,
Select WES Basic (Recommended) as you don’t need WES to send authenticated degree transcripts to ASCP Board of Certification®. You will send a scanned copy along with work experience forms by email to [email protected]
9. Delivery Option for Recipient.
Select: International Courier, for customers outside USA and hit next,
10. How to Send Documents?
10.1. Send your official transcripts to one of the following addresses provided by WES and don't forget to Include Your WES Reference Number,
By Postal Mail
WES Reference No. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
World Education Services
Attention: Documentation Center
P. O. Box 5087
Bowling Green Station
New York, NY 10274-5087
USA
By Courier
WES Reference No. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
World Education Services
Attention: Documentation Center
64 Beaver St. #146
New York, NY 10004
USA
Include Your Reference Number. Before you send documents, you must complete an application and pay the fees to obtain a reference number. You must write this reference number on each envelope and document that you submit to WES. “WES is not responsible for documents that arrive without a reference number. Documents that arrive without a reference number can create delays”.
10.2. Hit next.
11. Please Confirm Your Name and Date of Birth
11.1. Hit Confirm
12. Please Review Your Application and Make Sure All of The Information Is Correct.
12.1. Review the summary of your fees based on what you have selected for your application.
13. Accept Applicant Acknowledgments
14. Select Your Preferred Payment Option
15. Fill in Your Payment Data.
16. Don't Forget To Get Your WES Reference No.
17. Congratulation, Best Wishes from MLSi Academy.
18. Are You Ready to Take Your Exam?
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19. Finally , don't forget to check our post about how to apply for the BOC Exam Here?
Abdelhalim Elshawadfy is an ASCP certified Medical Laboratory Scientist (MLS ASCP), Specialist in Microbiology (SM ASCP), and Molecular Biology Technologist (MB ASCP) with a distinguished career marked by expertise, continuous learning, and a commitment to elevating the standards of clinical laboratory science. As an ASCP Certification Expert and American Board Certification Expert, Abdelhalim Elshawadfy continues to make invaluable contributions to the field, leaving a lasting impact on the medical community.