Express Entry - Education history related question

[hamiltonli]

Hey everyone,

Just received ITA a few days ago and as I'm filling out the full questionnaire I realized that there's a bit confusion regarding a few form fields. Wondering if you could kindly help. If this is a repeated question for some of you, I apologize. But cases are all different so I still want to ask here and pick your brain on it. Thanks in advance.

1. I hold a bachelor's degree from China and master's from Canada. Before ITA I only included my higest degree, which is the master's and I'm only claming education points for this. This being the case, do I still need to add my bachelor's under "education history" or it would be fine to be just added to personal history? (I don't have ECA for it and neither do I want to complicate things here)

2. A co-op internship is an essential part of my master's. Under personal history, do I have to list this separately? or just list the master's (2-year) would be fine. Reason asking this is because I don't want to have two separate rows for my master's in case the officers think that I took a gap year or whatever.

Again, much appreciated.

 

[northern sunshine]

1. Nope, you don't need to list your bachelor's in your education history. Personal history is fine. What you are describing is exactly what I did-- I only had my master's assessed and only listed my master's in my education history, since that was the only thing I was claiming points for. I listed the B.A. in my personal history.
2. I don't think it will make a big difference either way since you aren't getting additional points for it. IMO you would list it as employment that overlaps with your master's degree.

 

[hamiltonli]

Thanks a lot, Northern sunshine.
#1 makes absolute sense to me now. I guess I wouldn't need to do an ECA for my Canadian master's degree right?
#2 But keeping both under personal history right? My main concern is that if I add the internship experience in between, for the first part of my master's I could only say "academics in good standing but no certificate awarded", which may complicate things...

 

[northern sunshine]

Thanks a lot, Northern sunshine.
#1 makes absolute sense to me now. I guess I wouldn't need to do an ECA for my Canadian master's degree right?
#2 But keeping both under personal history right? My main concern is that if I add the internship experience in between, for the first part of my master's I could only say "academics in good standing but no certificate awarded", which may complicate things...

1 - Correct! A Canadian degree doesn't need an ECA since it is, by definition, already Canadian equivalent.
2 - Yes, everything gets listed in personal history. IMO the co-op should be listed as a period of employment, not education, so no need to indicate the status of your certificate on that line (it should only ask you for employer info and start/end dates iirc).

My thinking is as such (just making up dates as examples):

Aug 2014 - May 2016: Master's degree - awarded and in good standing
Jun 2015 - Aug 2015: Employed - place of employment - Intern/Co-op student/whatever your title might have been
Aug 2010 - May 2014: Bachelor's degree - awarded and in good standing

Obviously the order of dates for you would determine the order things get listed in your history. You can also explain in your letter of explanation that it was a co-op position that counted towards your graduation requirements, although I don't think it will matter since you aren't claiming work experience for it.

 

[hamiltonli]

Amazing. Thank you for answering my questions!! This is really helpful.

Much appreciated

 

[IF321]

Hey everyone,

Just received ITA a few days ago and as I'm filling out the full questionnaire I realized that there's a bit confusion regarding a few form fields. Wondering if you could kindly help. If this is a repeated question for some of you, I apologize. But cases are all different so I still want to ask here and pick your brain on it. Thanks in advance.

1. I hold a bachelor's degree from China and master's from Canada. Before ITA I only included my higest degree, which is the master's and I'm only claming education points for this. This being the case, do I still need to add my bachelor's under "education history" or it would be fine to be just added to personal history? (I don't have ECA for it and neither do I want to complicate things here)

2. A co-op internship is an essential part of my master's. Under personal history, do I have to list this separately? or just list the master's (2-year) would be fine. Reason asking this is because I don't want to have two separate rows for my master's in case the officers think that I took a gap year or whatever.

Again, much appreciated.

Hi,

As per your number 1 point, I am planning to claim my highest education, did you get your PR mentioning this way?