How are evaluations prepared?
All evaluations include the names of the foreign universities/institutions attended, names of the academic qualifications and dates earned. The foreign academic credentials are compared to those of the United States, and U.S. equivalencies are provided. To determine the U.S. academic placement recommendations, ICD refers to reference texts such as those published by the American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers (AACRAO) and the National Association for Foreign Student Affairs (NAFSA) which describe the educational systems of countries around the world. In following these texts, ICD applies standards which are used by the mainstream of higher educational institutions in the United States and approved by the National Council on the Evaluation of Foreign Educational Credentials. Also, ICD conducts its own research on educational systems around the world and maintains thousands of files of sample foreign documents as key reference sources.
