Help with ENEB

[Jakob]

Actually I don't think that university in EU would accept credits from previous learning. like credits transfer. Unless you study in the same university and get some credits in advance. Maybe few university would accept.... but really few... especially ECTS from isabel 1... Not a good university.

Not sure about transfer credits, but some universities in the EU accepted ENEB as entrance into Master's (or was it PhD?) studies, I think one was Slovenia but can't remember. It's on the ENEB wiki. Obviously, most countries haven't been tried.

Many countries in Europe don't like accepting ECTS from Spain, it is because Spain is seen as having lower academic standards (apparently they were really bad in education in the 1980s) and part of the issue is that Spanish ECTS are worth less time per hour than ECTS of many other European countries. The other issue is many countries have a law stating that if there is no final thesis (with a thesis defense) then it doesn't count as a degree, regardless of where you got it from.

On top of that, most countries in general don't want to accept any transfer credits from any other country, I couldn't even transfer my credits from Iceland to Sweden and they are both Nordic countries and my credits were for Icelandic language classes! Germany is notorious for not accepting degrees from outside of Germany. And the ranking of the school doesn't matter, your credits are never going to automatically transfer just because they're from a famous school like the University of Tokyo or Harvard, it is an issue with that they deem the curriculum to be different from their own curriculum. It is not simply because it's credits from ENEB or Isabel or that the ranking is good or poor.

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As for the OP's questions:

1. ENEB might or might not ask you for proof of your Bachelor's. If they do ask you can also enter through experience via volunteer work, a portfolio or something else.

2. You can choose to buy a physical copy of the official transcript, which you can get with a notarization and apostille. For most people this is useless, you can just print a digital diploma yourself. In my case I found that some Asian countries want an apostille for visa purposes. If you want a physical diploma, wait to buy it until a holiday sale, they do stuff like Chinese New Years, Black Friday and so on sales.

3. Yes. If you wait for sales you may be able to get it for cheaper than that but they ARE raising their prices every few months overall.

4. Still possible but only with certain foreign credit evaluator services. And the most favorable result is an "accredited Bachelor's degree", all the Master's evaluations are not valid for immigration / visas because they either appear as "unaccredited" or they are "accredited" but the evaluation company itself is not a valid company to use for immigration. If you want to keep this option open, my advice is to get the American foreign credit evaluation as soon as possible from an agency that either does not ever let your results expire, or that lets your results automatically renew (without a new evaluation) if you order a fresh copy of a previous result. The issue is that if the evaluator ever stops evaluating ENEB, you will no longer have any valid non-expired proof that it is worth a degree.

5. The opposite is generally true for the EU. It counts as a degree and no foreign credit evaluation is needed, unlike in outside of the EU. However it is not a degree that is valid for entrance into PhD studies because it does not contain a final thesis with a thesis defense. It is a degree meant for the workforce, not for academia.

It is actually usually harder to get credits to transfer than it is to use a finished degree to get into another school. I have gone to 6 universities and basically none of them accepted transfer credits unless I was transferring in from the same state or prefecture - they all had weird rules like that "Japanese 1" doesn't transfer in to "Japanese: Beginner" despite them using the same exact textbook, or that credits that would have transferred in now don't because I took the courses over 5 years ago.

6. 12 months for 1 ENEB degree. I'm not sure of the price to extend, I think it used to be 60 Euro for 6 months or something like that but that was years ago. Most people who extend just buy a second Master's course and get it extended that way.

7. I was registered for 3 courses. They gave me 3 separate exams, and then they gave me a 4th exam which was all courses put into 1 exam. Most people seem to get 1 exam for all courses. You're correct, each section inside the course is given the same one grade on the transcript if you take the exam. I have never had an employer ever ask to see my transcript. When they have seen it for visa purposes, none have ever said anything about any of my grades, and I even have degrees which are only "pass/fail" and no grade or GPA (so every grade on the transcript simply says "pass"), it has never been an issue.

I have had several interviewers take one glance at my Swedish school's NAME and assume it was a fake school, or employers glanced at my American school's degree DIPLOMA and assumed it was fake because there was no school seal on it and they stamped my degree title on slanted. But none of those guys ever even saw the transcript.

8. Yes there is a paper, but I believe they changed the rules for them recently so I'm not sure how long they have to be now. Some people had been putting in illustrations which took up a lot of space in the page count.

Can you use the ENEB degree as title behind your name? MA Master of Arts? Or not at all?