ENEB Master Thread

[nykorn]

Do you list it as:
"Bachelor's Degree Equivalent – Master in XYZ"
or simply as
"Master in XYZ"?

I would list it as just a "Bachelor's in X". People want your resume to be short and "not confusing", a lot of hiring managers and interviewers know nothing about academia and quite a few don't even work in the field they're hiring people for. Most employers aren't going to ask to even see the ECE evaluation, nor the ENEB degree or transcript, but if they do require a degree equivalency report (as I had to have for my teaching license), most of them won't even look at your original degree because it's useless to them, they are just going to glance at that report to see what the US thinks you have to ensure you fill their mandatory hiring qualifications.

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Also you need to keep in mind that ECE evaluations expire after a few years and the turnaround time is within a week I believe. So you should either just apply for an evaluation as soon as an employer says they actually want one, or you should order a new evaluation every few years to keep an unexpired copy on hand. The risk is always that in the future ECE stops evaluating ENEB degrees as a bachelor's and you suddenly can't order an evaluation anymore, but any old copy you had on hand would still be valid for a few years.

Not all the NACES members have been tested with ENEB degrees and I also don't know about the expiration dates of all FCEs. I know Validential never expires but they're not NACES. It could be there is an untried NACES member which has a longer expiry date or never expires.

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What is the motivation for getting it evaluated? If it's just for employment, most employers will not care about FCE or even know enough to ask for one. Lots of people study abroad and list foreign education on their resume without question. Also, is there a reason why you want ECE when other evaluators in the US will see it as a Masters? 

Ignoring that some people (including me) think it's fishy to have gotten a Master's without a Bachelor's, there are a lot of state licenses you can get which require a finished regionally accredited Bachelor's in most states. Two examples are a public school teaching (or substitute teaching) license and a Certified Public Accountant license. Some of these licenses very specifically do NOT accept a Master's in lieu of a Bachelor's. They also only accept certain FCEs, and the ones equating ENEB to a Masters aren't accepted. And they are ones that will require evaluations for hiring.

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Also, I have had employers verify my degrees, but it was always for teaching jobs (even ones that didn't require licenses, like ESL assistant teaching in Asia), or for jobs getting me work visas to go abroad. My current job will have me evaluate my degree indirectly as the state has to approve it before I can get licensed as a tax assistant but they didn't verify it during the actual hiring process. Most people are not in those situations.