Expanded International Credit Evaluation Companies

On August 30, Seth Kamen send the message below to MC Counselors and Advisors.  It bears repeating for counselors and advisors meeting with new students who have international credits to be evaluated and hopefully accepted at Montgomery College.

Unfortunately, there is not one specific international credit evaluation company that is best to recommend for students who want to transfer later.  As you can see from the list of transfer schools in the message below, students who eventually want to transfer to UM College Park should select a course-by-course evaluation from ECE rather than from WES.  While it is impossible to cover all possible transfer schools with one evaluation, it is still worth asking a prospective student if they have a transfer school in mind when they arrive at MC.

Subject: Expanded International Credit Evaluation Companies

All,

Effective Fall 2018, Montgomery College is expanding its approved international credit evaluations companies to include:

• World Education Services (WES)
• Josef Silny & Associates (JSA)
• Educational Credential Evaluators (ECE)

This expansion will align our requirements with the requirements at many of our four-year partner institutions. We recommend that students try to use a company that will be accepted by both MC and their intended transfer institution. This will allow them to use the same evaluation for both admission processes, saving both the time and money of a new evaluation.  

To aid you, here is a list of companies accepted by some of our partner institutions:

• University of Maryland, College Park: ECE or JSA
• UMBC - UMBC only accepts evaluations from Ed Perspectives or FCSA. Students will need to have their transcript re-evaluated by one of those organizations.
• UMUC – WES [note that UMUC does not issue F-1 visas for international students]
• University of Baltimore – WES
• UMES – WES, ECE
• Salisbury University – WES, ECE or JSA
• Towson University – WES, ECE
• George Washington University – WES, ECE or JSA
• Howard University – WES
• UM School of Nursing – WES, ECE or JSA
• Trinity Washington University – WES, ECE or JSA
• Hood College – WES
• McDaniel College – WES
• Bowie State University – WES, ECE
• St. Mary’s College of Maryland – WES
• Coppin State University – WES, JSA
• Goucher College – WES, JSA
• Morgan State University – WES, ECE

Our Credit for Prior Learning website has been updated to reflect this information. Please let me know if you have any questions.

Thank you,

Seth

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Mr. Seth Marc Kamen, MBA

Director of Transfer and Prior Learning Design

Office of the Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs

Montgomery College

Phone: 240.567.4255

Cell: 240.687.2262

Web: www.montgomerycollege.edu/transfer