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Acceptable Foreign Degrees
If your undergraduate degree is from a college or university outside the United States or Canada, you must submit an official evaluation of your degree by the Center for Educational Documentation. You may refer to the guidelines below regarding foreign degrees that ordinarily are accepted as equivalent to the US bachelor’s degree. In most cases, three-year degrees are not acceptable.
British-patterned education: bachelor’s degree with honors
French-patterned education: degree or diploma requiring four years of postbaccalaureate study
Germany: minimum three to four years of postsecondary study (vordiplom plus one year)
Other European countries: university degree requiring a minimum of four years of study
Middle East: university degree requiring a minimum of four years of study
Canada: three-year bachelor’s degree from Quebec, four-year bachelor’s degree from all other provinces
Latin America: university degree requiring a minimum of four years of study
India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal: bachelor’s degree in engineering, master’s degree in all other fields
Philippines: five-year bachelor’s degree or four-year bachelor’s degree plus one year of graduate work
Other Asian countries: university degree requiring a minimum of four years of study