For admissions to 180 EPP, applicants who hold a Bachelor’s degree from outside of the United States will be required to have a review of their out-of-country credentials conducted by a state-approved service provider.
The following organizations are members of either the Association of International Credential Evaluators, Inc. (AICE) or the National Association of Credential Evaluation Services (NACES) and have been vetted by the Texas Education Agency (TEA) to provide specific required information in the evaluation for educators applying for a Texas review of credentials.
For your credential evaluation to be accepted, you must select a company from this list:
- Academic Credentials Evaluation Institute, Inc.
- Bruscan Educational Information Services
- Center for Educational Documentation, Inc.
- Educational Credential Evaluators
- Educational Perspectives
- Educational Records Evaluation Service
- Foreign Credential Evaluations, Inc.
- Foreign Credential Services of America
- Foundation for International Services, Inc.
- Global Credential Evaluators, Inc.
- Global Education Group, Inc.
- Globe Language Services
- Institute of Foreign Credential Services (IFCS)
- International Academic Credential Evaluator, Inc
- International Education Research Foundation (IERF)
- International Evaluation Service
- Josef Silny & Associates, Inc.
- Scholaro (formerly Foreign Credits, Inc.)
- SDR Educational Consultants
- TEC: The Evaluation Company (Formerly SpanTran)
- Ucredo
- World Education Services, Inc.
- Worldwide Education Consultant Services, Inc.
The Texas Education Agency (TEA) outlines the procedure for validating foreign credentials. Visit their website for more information.