ENEB New Master Thread

[Kalas]

I have not heard back from Unimarconi and more than half the day is gone in Italy. Probably not a good sign.

Something to consider is that none of the four degrees available through the ENEB/Unimarconi partnership are directly offered by Unimarconi, so that might need to be explained away to a potential employer or doctoral program. https://www.unimarconi.com/english-courses/ If you want to double check my math on that, the partnership options are:

MASTER IN APPLIED BIG DATA AND ANALYTICS
MASTER IN HUMAN RESOURCES LEADERSHIP AND TALENT STRATEGY
MASTER IN SALES LEADERSHIP AND MARKET STRATEGY
MBA IN CORPORATE STRATEGY AND INTERNATIONAL LEADERSHIP

To me, that makes clarification on exactly what kind of Italian degree it is all the more important. ENEB's sales copy means nothing after money changes hands. As the 17th Rule of Tuition Acquisition clearly states, a contract is a contract is a contract...but only between shady cheapo universities.

The "full price" of the degree is 2,600€ with the "scholarship" that I assume is available to anyone willing to pay 2,600€ but not 9,600€. There is a 10% discount for payment up front, so the "full price" becomes 2,340€ or ~$2770 - and even comes with a free 7" tablet! (Estimated retail value of the tablet is $35. source: I can be a dick sometimes.) https://eneb.com/training-programs/accre...analytics/ Buying it that way may or may not require doing the coursework even if you already have the corresponding ENEB degrees.

On Maltus' point, this is NOT a propio. It is an official degree from a school with all of the government legalities in place. Whether it is more accurately described as a graduate certificate, master's degree or postgraduate certificate in American terms is yet to be determined. My fear is that this "special partnership" could end up being a graduate certificate when the dust settles. While technically still a good value for money, it has far less utility and won't be getting you into many job interviews or doctoral programs ENEB doesn't. 

For JC39's question, methodology used by degree evaluators could generously be described as fuzzy math. ENEB saying things like a single degree is 60 ECTS and a double degree is 72 ECTS (no matter how many classes actually repeat between them) and a "Global MBA" adding a third degree means an additional 18 ECTS (which probably adds fewer new classes than the second degree) only confuses evaluators more. My take on it is that it was ENEB's attempt to get more credits into one degree so it would to give it a better chance of being evaluated as a full master's by an evaluator. I would assume more than 60 ECTS (and 90 ECTS in particular) have some kind of specific value in Europe that is not immediately obvious to an American. More cynically, Global MBAs became trendy a few years earlier. You could also look at it as ENEB trying to cash in.

If I am reading your post and the evaluation correctly it would appear that you did indeed get hosed by ECE for going the double degree/triple degree route. From this we can see ECE evaluates every "degree group" as one US bachelor's, regardless of how many units are in it or the topics covered. I'm guessing the first degree listed on the double/triple degree transcript is the one ECE will use based on these results, JC39 can confirm or deny. Assuming JC sent 4 ENEB transcripts/UI1 validations we could more specifically say that 1 transcript/UI1 validation latter = 1 US bachelor's regardless of the number of credits on the transcript. That said, let us not lose sight of the bigger picture. It is "only" 4 US bachelor's degrees for less than the cost of 2 classes at SNHU after all expenses are taken into account. You'd have to try to complain about the value per dollar there.

I went ahead and updated the wiki on double/triple degrees being evaluated as a single bachelor's by ECE and as a single graduate certificate by IEE per the next post. Anyone that wants to clean up my sloppy scripting feel free.