ENEB Master Thread

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Hi everyone, I am recently signed up for the ENEB MBA degree and was wondering if anyone used an alternate credential evaluation service in the US. I read through the other thread and it seems like someone evaluated it to a Bachelor's, but I wasn't sure if other services could possibly evaluate into a Master's.

Additionally, if I were to apply for jobs (fortune 500) in the US using that degree and I am already a citizen; would an employer ask to have the MBA evaluated?

Hi, I was the person getting my Master in Project Management evaluated as a bachelor by ECE. I asked about the evaluation and posted the response from ECE with the rationale for evaluating the degree of an undergrad.

I don't know about an MBA, but I imagine that the approach might be similar. I work for a fortune 500 and I was able to add the degree to my HR file, no questions asked. Most American companies with locations in Europe would consider the degree legit, I guess.

Added as a Master's or as a Bachelor's?

I'm doubtful of the value of the entire credential evaluation process, largely because it seems to be designed to maintain the high prices in the US higher education market. I remember on the sister forum reading about how someone got their Heriot-Watt MBA, ranked in the top 500 schools worldwide, evaluated as an Associate's degree and how these ENEB evaluations seem to say it's a 4th year Bachelor's degree where people did graduate-level coursework. What a sham, right?

Think about it. What reason could evaluators have for assuming that the UI1 degree is sub-par? 

• Unaccredited? Nope. The awarding institution, UI1, is not only listed in RUCT and ANECA as a legal institution, but UI1 is accredited by ACSUCYL which is a member of ENQA, meaning this degree actually carries graduate-level ECTS in business.
  
• Not enough credits? Well, 30 credits for a Master's is common in the USA and the program carries 30 credits equivalent.
  
• No capstone? About a third of the degrees I've seen in the US from schools which hold RA have non-thesis/non-capstone Master's degrees and no one cares.
  
• Not enough coursework? Please. WGU, which holds RA and ACBSP accreditation, has 30 page capstones with maybe 15-20 sources each in ther database of projects which were hailed as being excellent, exemplary pieces of work. Meanwhile, now that I'm further in the program, my average paper is pushing 24-25 pages per class at APA6 standards (2.0 spacing, Times New Roman, 12pt font) with 40+ sources each (my moving average increased with my most recent paper) and the MBA requires me to take 68 tests. 
  

The only reason any evaluation company has to claim that this isn't a full and complete Master's degree is pride and a desire to falsely prop up the American higher-ed market.
Imagine, for a moment, if these evaluators granted us Graduate-level titles for these cheap degrees. Then imagine further that people realized you could take a nonstandard route and it would be considered fully legit and complete. From the stats I've seen, FAFSA pays out for basically everyone whose family couldn't afford to pay their child's way through community college, so lets assume someone took the pathway of:

• Finish AA/AS at community college -> Transfer to Big 3, WGU, Ashworth/Penn Foster to finish Bachelor's -> Enroll in accredited Spanish graduate program = $13,000 and ~4 years.
  
• Use ACE to complete most credits -> Transfer to TESU, WGU, or Ashworth to finish Bachelor's  -> Enroll in accredited Spanish graduate program = $10,000 and ~3-4 years.
  

Hell, let's tack on a UNISA thesis-only program for $2,500 and you still save money compared to going to a state school while getting TWO graduate degrees.

There'd be a revolt and the US higher ed industry would fall apart, because the world is shifting away from needing degrees in the first place and this is a cheap option to get a decent quality education in less time, assuming you are willing to put in the effort. Is it prestigious? Not compared to getting into Tier 1 target schools, but that's to be expected. Probably not even compared to state schools if you stay in one region, but as Millenials and Gen Z get older, they want to travel and be mobile anyway. If you're traveling around the USA, how valuable will that state school from Kentucky really be when you're in California? Probably not much more valuable than UNISA, but nearly 10x the price. What about traveling the world? I guarantee you that UNISA carries more weight than the random state school in Kentucky in every country in the world that is not USA or Canada.