I thought I would post this question for my wife. She has several certificates from the University of London. Physics, Accounting just to name a couple. My question is, "does anyone know if the certificates are transferable for credits towards a degree within the U.S." She has taken several other courses through Central Texas College, University of Texas and I have no doubt she would succeed in an equivalent 'clep' or 'dsst'....... I just do not want her to have to go through the trouble of a retest if possible. Would either of the Big '3' entertain? Thanks in advance, rilbenjacmonmic
I know that if you have foriegn transcripts and degree's Excelsior will want them evaluated by ECE as to the other two i am not aware of their policy's. I would suggest that contact the schools to find out what the will require. Then if they don't limit you on who to use for an evaluation service I would suggest you contact a member of NACES to do the evaluation. Your wife will require a Course by Course evaluation. Take care,
Some places prefer AACRAO, which is not a NACES member. Check with your intended schools, before you shell out a couple hundred dollars for a course-by-course evaluation.
I figured it to be an easy thing. Not so, probably easier for her to clep out. Thought I would at least throw the question out there for others that may have the knowledge on something like this. Thanks again, rilbenjacmonmic
For not much more than a CLEP test, Josef Silny or WES -- two evaluators with which I have experience, both as a college administrator and as the husband of a client -- will tell you what your non-US transcripts are equivalent to here. However, I encourage you to take the whole battery of CLEP tests and get out of your lower-division General Education requirements.
That's really not that hard. Just check with the school and get her transcripts evaluated. UofL certificates ("Diplomas"?) should be worth quite a lot of credit hours. My understanding is that a 4-unit "diploma" represent an equivalent of a whole year of undergraduate studies, this shoul be around 30 credits. Worth 5 to 10 CLEPs.
My Advanced Level 'Economics' and 'Pure Mathematics' in the General Certificate of Education (GCE) Examination of the University of London got 16 credits (lower level) from the University of the State of New York (now Excelsior College) twenty years ago. The credentials evaluation service was through the International Education Research Foundation, Inc. Actually, the GCE examination is at the pre-university level (UK) and the courses from the University of London can probably get quite a number of credits in the US.
Taking that whole battery of exams, assuming one could pass them all and that they would all transfer to the school of choice, would result in over 100 hours of equivalent credit. Reality is, several are duplicative and few people would be able to pass all of those exams without some extreme preparation. That more than meets the lower-level GenEd requirements at most schools. At a cost of only about $2700 (without travel and prep material) -- taking that entire list is a relatively cheap way of getting through 3 years of college. It's probably "the hard way" of doing it though...
Yan- Did Excelsior do the evaluation upon enrolment or was it something separate you on your own using IERF rilbenjacmonmic
You are, of course, correct. I overstated my case. I would recommend taking as many CLEP tests as you could use as transfer credit. For my BA students in Accounting, Business Administration, and MIS, this would be: one in Literature two in Composition one in History or Government one in Psychology or Sociology two in Economics two in Math two in Science one in Computers one in Management one in Accounting one in Business Law one in Marketing That is 48 semester hours of credit. Many private schools, like UoP, Nova Southeastern, and others discussed on DI, charge about $500 per credit hour. Taking these 16 tests could shave $24,000 off one's student loan. At $55 per CLEP test, one would be investing about $1,000 in test fees and study materials, in order to save more than twenty times that in tuition and interest.
The IERF was one of the designated USNY's evaluation services agencies at that time and the evaluation of my foreign courses and transcripts was done after my enrolment with USNY. All the credits recommended by the IERF were accepted by USNY (now Excelsior).