Foreign Educational Credentials Analysis

Audience: Admissions Professionals and Recruiters with less than 3 years of experience in foreign academic credential evaluation and placement

This twelve hour workshop provides basic training in foreign credentials evaluation and placement for individuals from universities and colleges. Topics covered include: information needed to evaluate credentials, how to develop a resource library and support base, understanding the credit and grade conversion process. Note: Participants should bring a calculator.

Workshop Objectives

• Recognize and identify status/legitimacy of institution
• Understand basic methodology and benchmarking credentials
• Apply basic methodology and benchmarking to credentials
• Become familiar with available resources and create a resource library
• Convert grades; convert credits from credit-based, hours-based, marks-based and outcome-based credentials
• Calculate grade point averages