05-15-2022, 08:01 AM
Dumber,
I am not sure what you mean by "overhyping ENEB." No one on this board claims that Isabel I degrees will work for everyone and satisfy unlimited goals that people set for themselves. It's rather difficult to find such "all-purpose" degrees. For example, If someone intended to get an advanced degree in business that might help him teach at a local U.S. community college, I would be the first person to put out a word of caution about taking this specific route. Similarly, if a resident of Canada wanted to get the degree to work in the public sector, I would likewise tell him to be careful due to the lack of acceptance for these degrees by government-endorsed credential evaluation services. On the other hand, a business degree is most suitable for the private business sector in which evaluation is frequently optional, regardless of the country of residence.
To be more charitable, maybe you simply meant to say that a non-overhyped degree is "a foreign degree that is likely to be evaluated for equivalency in North American context." In that case, it would be best to seek degrees with official government approval in a given country. I would agree that this one would be much more risky due to a lack of such country government agency endorsement. However, the fact that a major NACES member has given it a Bachelor's degree equivalency, while another promises a Graduate Certificate equivalency, refutes the claim that this program cannot meet ANY possible goals and ought to be simply dismissed by board members. It can meet more limited goals of individuals, primarily of international business workers who need to show their training in a given area. They can rely on the institutional accreditation of the Spanish university. It may also meet the goals of individuals who are okay with having a "downgraded credential level" by NACES (Master's to second Bachelor's, or Master's to a Graduate Certificate). It may also work for those who are willing to search and pay for a non-NACES evaluation service evaluation in an attempt to find full Master's equivalency in the U.S. Therefore, the degrees have their use. They just don’t carry as much value as government-endorsed foreign qualifications.
I am not sure what you mean by "overhyping ENEB." No one on this board claims that Isabel I degrees will work for everyone and satisfy unlimited goals that people set for themselves. It's rather difficult to find such "all-purpose" degrees. For example, If someone intended to get an advanced degree in business that might help him teach at a local U.S. community college, I would be the first person to put out a word of caution about taking this specific route. Similarly, if a resident of Canada wanted to get the degree to work in the public sector, I would likewise tell him to be careful due to the lack of acceptance for these degrees by government-endorsed credential evaluation services. On the other hand, a business degree is most suitable for the private business sector in which evaluation is frequently optional, regardless of the country of residence.
To be more charitable, maybe you simply meant to say that a non-overhyped degree is "a foreign degree that is likely to be evaluated for equivalency in North American context." In that case, it would be best to seek degrees with official government approval in a given country. I would agree that this one would be much more risky due to a lack of such country government agency endorsement. However, the fact that a major NACES member has given it a Bachelor's degree equivalency, while another promises a Graduate Certificate equivalency, refutes the claim that this program cannot meet ANY possible goals and ought to be simply dismissed by board members. It can meet more limited goals of individuals, primarily of international business workers who need to show their training in a given area. They can rely on the institutional accreditation of the Spanish university. It may also meet the goals of individuals who are okay with having a "downgraded credential level" by NACES (Master's to second Bachelor's, or Master's to a Graduate Certificate). It may also work for those who are willing to search and pay for a non-NACES evaluation service evaluation in an attempt to find full Master's equivalency in the U.S. Therefore, the degrees have their use. They just don’t carry as much value as government-endorsed foreign qualifications.
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