ENEB Master Thread

[SteveFoerster]

There were some people on this board who were treating this school as a degree mill. I have argued that they were wrong. This school offers a legitimate continuing education program with the added benefit of real ECTS credits that could potentially transfer elsewhere for graduate and undergraduate credit. However, I think that the people who are celebrating this particular evaluator's decision are equally wrong. This is a shameful decision that shows a complete disregard for the most basic standards of global credential evaluation. Yes, we could argue whether this is worth 30, 33 or 24 U.S. college credits. In that sense, I welcome the "unpredictable evaluations." However, it is simply beyond belief to suggest that this is equivalent to someone completing 90 credits in the U.S. (3 years). If you feel that this okay, I am literally flabbergasted. The school itself says that their program lasts 18 months, while the ECTS credit count amounts to one year of education. I am not aware of a single European university that would consider 60 ECTS credits to be equivalent to 3 years.

It's not how I would evaluate it either, and I expect that the suggestion that ECE was triggered by the "1500 hours" reference is probably correct. But after hearing the Heriot-Watt MBA story, nothing surprises me. People have an unrealistic expectation of consistency when we're talking about comparing nearly two hundred different systems that span the globe.

Anyway, that's two so far out of what, two dozen? We'll see what others say.

Yes, we could argue whether this is worth 30, 33 or 24 U.S. college credits. In that sense, I welcome the "unpredictable evaluations." However, it is simply beyond belief to suggest that this is equivalent to someone completing 90 credits in the U.S. (3 years). If you feel that this okay, I am literally flabbergasted. The school itself says that their program lasts 18 months, while the ECTS credit count amounts to one year of education.

In order to be admitted to a Master's programme at ENEB, you need to have a Bachelor's degree, it's literally written in the evaluation report. So we're talking about second Bachelor's degree, not the first one. It's a normal practice to transfer 90 credits and complete the next 30 at university in case of a second undergraduate degree. I guess that's the logic behind this decision from ECE.

Huh. That's a really interesting suggestion.