ENEB Master Thread

[nykorn]

durain
My friend signed up for an ENEB Master during Black Friday for $110.
However, he was shocked to find out that to choose the exam-only option, he will need to pay an additional $389.
Is this true? He is thinking of requesting a refund.

Why refund? He can just do the essay assignments instead and not pay any of that. Yes it's true (I paid around that for the exam format for 3 degrees - unsure of the current price for 1 degree), but you aren't required to do the exam, if you're confident you can do the essays within the 18 month time allotment then go the cheap way. I bought the exam format before finding out Google Docs has a citation tool that saves me hours off editing the formatting for each essay...

Wow, with the exchange rate and going through Paypal, I just noticed the pricing difference...
$347.52 - For the Global MBA/Triple Masters Diploma, everything included, which isn't a bad price for my 3 masters.
$205.25 - For the two Masters options for my wife, didn't get a chance to select, I'll do that through an email to them.
$552.77 total for all, which isn't too bad, considering I paid slightly less for my triple Masters alone...

I have seen you mention the Global MBA a few times. I only saw the option for this in Spanish. Did you complete it that way using a translation app? Is there a different option for the Global MBA that I haven't noticed? I am prepping right now to take my next TECEP and then concentrate on the MBA/Master Business & Corporate Communication exams at start of next year. May try to knock out a few math classes in between as well.

I think there's confusion from ENEB here too. Their Spanish page says the Global MBA is 3 Masters (MBA, Big Data, Project Management). But on the recent PDF about half off prices as well as when I paid for the exam, they seemed to call any 3 or 3+ Masters a Global Diploma. 

I have started the program MBA+Master for 1 month, I am looking forward to hearing the feedback from someone who takes 50 multiple choice exam option, stating on Dec 1.

I'm planning on taking the exam ASAP, not sure if Dec 1st or 4th. I'll be sure to update this thread with my concise impressions after I do. And will obviously update again months later after the diplomas arrive.

[datby98]

A quick question, has the ENGLISH MASTERCLASS of ENEB been discussed anywhere? It looks fun.

[bjcheung77]

Oh Yes, there's just a little confusion on how I did mine... Here's how it went down, hopefully this clears things up.
2020 - Purchased Groupon MBA/Masters Big Data/BI for $249, then bought Masters Digital Marketing & E-Commerce for $217.
Last week - Purchased Global MBA/Triple Masters, this is for the Apostille, Diploma (Physical copy/stamped, whatever else) $347.52
Last week - Also purchased two Masters for my wife, she hasn't decided which Masters options yet, for $205.25 total.
I didn't get the Global MBA on Groupon, it's just the "Global MBA or Triple Masters" Apostille and physical diploma, etc.

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Oh and for those who are thinking of PM'ing me about evaluations, no. I have not and do not plan on doing any evaluations.
I took these for knowledge/learning gaps that I would like to fill, not for transferring into another program or anything else.

[RoboPanda]

The day is here. 2nd batch of exam takers can start doing their exams as of today. I didn't get any emails but when I logged into my student account I found it.

Information for those who are interested:
1) I am in the MBA + Master of Big Data + Master of Digital Marketing cohort. I was expecting 50 questions PER degree. Nope, it was 50 questions for ALL 3 degrees combined. Wow.
2) I have witnessed no less than 3 questions that repeated itself, word for word. So it was actually only 47 questions. Wow.
3) ChatGPT it all the way at got 6/10. Wow.

A bit more context. I enrolled into the program, initially just MBA + Big Data in March of this year after reading over 200 pages of this forum. Decided that it's worth a try especially I am based in Canada and I read about the favourable WES evaluation. I actually started the program doing assignments. Getting a 10 on strategic management, and getting a 9 in Accounting. I was very close to submitting my coaching assignment when one day, I saw the emails about exam options. Right away I stalled my progress.

A friend who I managed to successfully convinced to try out ENEB, he took the exam option right away. He was complaining about the amount of paperwork that he had to do. September comes, he took the exam. I was siting beside him it happens. ChatGPT, 40 minutes later, he got his degree. I don't see a good outcome of ENEB after this so I cave in and opt for the exam option just to get it over with.

More about myself. I am fortunate enough to be in a stable FT job. ENEB was about knowledge filling and "stuff to do in my spare time".

Those that are relying on ENEB to provide academic or career growth, like Dr. Michael Smith or Dr. Coleman said many times already in this forum. YMMV. There's still value in this low cost degree in the meantime. I am just worried with the future prospect of 50 questions triple degree exams will finally seal the deal on calling ENEB a diploma mill.

Edited 1: as I think someone asked before. I will try to re-attempt my exam at a later time. I will let you know if it's the same 50 questions.
Edited 2: Completed the exam the 2nd time. Except for 3 questions, the entire exam was different from my 1st attempt. But questions still repeat itself. One of the questions showed up 3 times!!! word for word. I actually feel worse after taking this again...

"What does SEO stand for"
"What is Mix Marketing?" (their translation error for Marketing Mix)

These are like super basic stuff I learn from day 1 of my marketing course from over 10 years ago...yet they appear on an example for a triple Master...

[nykorn]

Thanks for the detailed account about the exam.

I logged in to my account and do NOT see the exam option, despite confirming with them via Email earlier that I am supposed to be enrolled in it and it is supposed to start Dec 1st. Emailed them again...

[Wowbagger]

Now I've completed an ENEB Masters I have a choice of the following:

1. Buy Apostilled hard copy of Isabel Masters
2. Buy WES Canada validation of Isabel Masters

The cost is very similar. I have zero interest in continuing my academics in future. But my hope is to use the Isabel Masters to apply for positions overseas. Possibly Canada or the Middle East. I'm curious what people's experiences have been like when using an Isabel Masters for job applications in North America, Asia and the GCC? And also wether having an Apostilled certificate is of value when applying for roles in non-European countries? Do employers value WES internationally? Is Apostille more or less valuable to employers?

I appreciate that the logical response might be to do both - Apostille and WES Canada - to cover all the bases. But, sensibly, I don't want to spend money if I don't have to. At the same time I want to futureproof myself now for a 10-15 year career. An Apostille is permanent and could be applied for in future (as long as ENEB still have the U1i relationship). A WES Canada validation is also permanent but only after it is completed. My concern is that if I don't do WES Canada ASAP then I might miss out on the opportunity should WES decide to withdraw validations for Isabel Propios. Then I may have to use lesser validation services instead. I know it's a difficult question and I would appreciate all thoughts and opinions on this.

[nykorn]

Now I've completed an ENEB Masters I have a choice of the following:

1. Buy Apostilled hard copy of Isabel Masters
2. Buy WES Canada validation of Isabel Masters

The cost is very similar. I have zero interest in continuing my academics in future. But my hope is to use the Isabel Masters to apply for positions overseas. Possibly Canada or the Middle East. I'm curious what people's experiences have been like when using an Isabel Masters for job applications in North America, Asia and the GCC? And also wether having an Apostilled certificate is of value when applying for roles in non-European countries? Do employers value WES internationally? Is Apostille more or less valuable to employers?

I appreciate that the logical response might be to do both - Apostille and WES Canada - to cover all the bases. But, sensibly, I don't want to spend money if I don't have to. At the same time I want to futureproof myself now for a 10-15 year career. An Apostille is permanent and could be applied for in future (as long as ENEB still have the U1i relationship). A WES Canada validation is also permanent but only after it is completed. My concern is that if I don't do WES Canada ASAP then I might miss out on the opportunity should WES decide to withdraw validations for Isabel Propios. Then I may have to use lesser validation services instead. I know it's a difficult question and I would appreciate all thoughts and opinions on this.

Some countries such as Korea require an apostilled degree for immigration. Others such as Japan and Taiwan do not require it but it may speed up the work visa process (resulting in 1 month to get a visa instead of 3+ months). In some cases a potential foreign employer will doubt your degree without an apostille/notarization even if the government of that country does not doubt or require it. In other words, an apostille can help for multiple different destination countries. 

In contrast, WES only helps for THAT ONE COUNTRY. WES Canada will ONLY help for jobs in Canada and will not help for, say, a job in Korea or America. Additionally, a WES report will usually only help for government restricted jobs requiring licenses, aka public school teacher, lawyer, doctor, etc - it is very rare that, say, a software programmer job will require a WES report. If you are say in Canada wanting to become a public school teacher, an apostille will not work, you will need WES.

If you are entertaining the idea of going abroad then absolutely choose the apostille. I have had employers in Asia doubt my degrees for as small of reasons as it lacking a school seal (as those don't exist in most Western countries) and the title being stamped on oblique instead of straight. They contacted my school trying to get stamped letters proving I was a student there and when the school replied "we don't do that, the diploma and transcript is enough" they were flummoxed and accused me of lying about my school history. An apostille would probably have appeased them but I had no idea about it at the time.

Also keep in mind WES is not a good company and you may have to shell out more money than expected. It is cheaper to get WES to evaluate a bunch of degrees at once in one go. If you later gain another degree you have to get it evaluated separately and pay that $300 all over again, or you can choose to reevaluate all of your degrees in one go for a combo report, paying that same $300. You should always do a combined report because they have a system where sometimes they mark a degree as not equivalent to a US/Canadian degree unless you provide proof of a second or third degree along with it. My WES USA report got lost in the mail, they did not explain the shipping method I chose (which cost like $50) would not have tracking, they were charging me over $100 to get a new report sent - for an evaluation they had already done.

[nykorn]

Took a few days, but ENEB fixed my exams not appearing. I do NOT have one single exam for all 3 Master's!

MBA + Project Management = 1 combined exam
Hotel & Tourism = 1 separate exam

I'll take the tests ASAP and get back to you guys on how they were.

[nykorn]

Just took the hotel exam. Passed with 82% and 50 minutes to spare. You NEED to use the book to answer some questions, it would be impossible otherwise (some of those "What number of x are there?" questions like in the mock exams). I didn't actually notice any questions that had been in the mock exams but I'm sure there were some. Every test question and answer had messed up text, I mean like words were not even complete (It would say something like "WhA. is the inforA. we neeA. to..." for "What is the information we need to...") and there was only one question I noticed which could not be answered due to the answers having a different order (like "A) B) A and B are correct, C) D)". I will be Emailing them to tell them to correct the text. There was one question where no matter how hard I looked I couldn't find the answer and it also wasn't Googlable, it was one of the NLP or coaching ones. Unlike someone else who commented in here, I had no duplicate questions.

There is a timer at the very bottom of the screen if you scroll all the way down. I forgot to start a timer on my phone before I began so was really stressing out about time until I made it to the end and noticed they had one. "Flagging" a question is not like reporting an inaccuracy, it is like a bookmark feature so you can easily find and go back to a question you were unsure about.

When you finish you get a message saying your score, that you passed, that the grades will be recorded into your file within around 7-14 business days, and that the diplomas will begin to be issued after that.

As you have 2 chances to take the exam, and your diploma is not actually issued until the end of the exam period I believe (April 31st for me), I assume you could study and retake the exam near the end of the exam period to get a better score. However a B is fine for me and frankly is in line with all other grades I've ever gotten at any school.

Overall I am super relieved and am now the owner of a Master's. I will take my MBA + Project Management exam later today as well.

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Update: After combing through my incorrect answers, I had 3 where the test did not accept the correct answer, 1 where the jumbled text answers made it impossible to answer, 1 where the question was so vague I could neither know the answer nor find the answer in the textbook, 1-2 where I couldn't find the answer anywhere in the textbook despite the question being clear, 2-3 where I just misread either the question or the text in the textbook.

[aimz]

I had a question about the Global MBA and it was discussed here by others two. I contacted ENEB and if you complete Master in BI and PM alongside a MBA you can purchase the diploma that shows that you are awarded a Global MBA from Isabel I.