ENEB Master Thread

[cacoleman1983]

I can't stand WES.  They evaluated one year of my partner's studies from the Phillippines as 34 credits by decreasing each course credit by one credit from the 13 courses he took.   His total ended up as 47 with 3 and 2 hour courses but each one was decreased to 2 and 1 hour courses.  The community college my partner attends did not accept the initial evaluation and WES would not change it stating that 1 year of studies equals to roughly 30 credit hours so they had to decrease the number to fit that range.  

I ended up having to improvise as an official higher education employee by changing the credit hours on the evaluation and submitting it for the community college to accept it.  I will never have anything evaluated with WES again for foreign studies.  They won't evaluate the Azteca/UCN PhD I will be getting anyway but if I decide to do ENEB, I will definitely go with IEE for both evaluations.

Whoooooa.

Well, sometimes a wrong has to be righted I suppose. But I'm curious, what was their explanation--if any--for the decrease?

This was WES Response:

WES converts study completed abroad into comparable U.S. semester credits. The number of credits on our evaluation reports corresponds to the normal credit load carried by a student enrolled in a similar program in the United States.
 
Using this approach WES allocates approximately 30 semester credits for each year of full-time study in a foreign education program. The credit conversion factor can be described mathematically as the target number of US credits divided by the total number of units required in the foreign education program.
We have reviewed your report and confirmed that it is correct. We would like to emphasize that WES evaluations are advisory opinions and not binding upon any institution or organization.
 
Sincerely,
 
Director of Evaluations