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WES result, 2 years diploma?

neochanges1

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Aug 27, 2013
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Good day, my sister got her result from WES and her 4 year degree in the Philippines is equivalent to a 2 year diploma according to WES.

I remember when I did my IQAS from the same exact school and mine was equivalent to a 3 year degree.

Will this be a problem? Or does WES and IQAS just have different wordings but means the same thing. On the CRS calc you have an option to put diploma or a 3 years or more and it's a 20 point difference.

Thank you
 

arthurbr

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Dec 6, 2017
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Sometimes there are differences between WES's and IQAS's evaluations. Foreign Law degreed, for example, are evaluated as 4-year bachelor's by WES, while it's evaluated as 5-year first professional degree (equivalent to masters') by IQAS. So yes, sometimes it's better to do it with IQAS.

Plus, for WES you will have to pay 13% for taxes, whilst for IQAS you only pay 5%.