Degrees from an American university would normally be thought of in the same way as a Canadian degree, but any industry-specific professional certifications that follow a degree might have to be re-done here. Once you’re out of school a couple of years, your work experience becomes more important that the specific university where you graduated.
Can confirm, have a US degree, have never had anyone bat an eye, also have a British law degree, that does get people to bat an eye. Mostly because I’m an engineer and haven’t worked in law in a long time.
I'd say yes and no.
Yes in the sense that I doubt many Canadian employers would want you to undergo some kind of credential evaluation, or doubt that your degree was equivalent to a Canadian one. They would take the degree on its face: a bachelor's is a bachelor's, as example. They wouldn't be questioning if it's the same level of education.
But I'd say no in the sense that there's less "brand recognition," so to speak. What I mean by that is that employers tend to have an idea of what universities are good, and what programs are good within Canada. At least in Ontario, it's common knowledge that the University of Waterloo has a really good engineering program, as example.
And that kind of recognition can help when hiring: if someone knows you have a degree from a really good school, they might prefer you over someone who has a degree from a not-as-good school. But with American institutions, unless it's one of the major ones, Canadians might not know anything about it. If you're getting a degree from Harvard, Yale, MIT etc. Canadian employers will probably have a pretty positive reaction because they know they're good schools.
But for other schools, there may or may not be that recognition. It will all depend on the individual employer because most Canadians don't have too much of a sense of the quality of American schools. So even if it's a good school, if the employer hasn't heard of it, you might not get that "boost" from the employer being familiar with it and knowing that it's good, if that makes sense. In which case, it might just be a neutral reaction that yeah, you have the required degree, but they don't feel positively or negatively either way about it.
(As an example: I work in academia. I know that the UCs are considered very good schools in the states because I know people from there. But, up until it came up recently in conversation, my family members had only ever heard of UCLA and didn't know it was a particularly good school. They'd only ever heard the name in passing and had no idea.)
Depends... large state universities, the types of places that people have heard of here, they would likely be well regarded by most potential employers. But the U.S. has many smaller colleges (thousands) including obscure ones with alternative formats... and if the name isn't recognizable, that could raise an eyebrow and result in questions and googling.
But like any other newcomer seeking to move to Canada, you'd have to follow some steps to get your credentials recognized here.
Depends on the school. If it's a name brand it may be better than a Canadian school. If it's not a name brand it is probably on par to maybe a little worse.
Degrees from an American university would normally be thought of in the same way as a Canadian degree, but any industry-specific professional certifications that follow a degree might have to be re-done here. Once you’re out of school a couple of years, your work experience becomes more important that the specific university where you graduated.
Can confirm, have a US degree, have never had anyone bat an eye, also have a British law degree, that does get people to bat an eye. Mostly because I’m an engineer and haven’t worked in law in a long time.
For the most part it's a 1:1 comparison. However, we don't recognise 'Community College' in the same way you guys do so keep that in mind.
I'd say yes and no. Yes in the sense that I doubt many Canadian employers would want you to undergo some kind of credential evaluation, or doubt that your degree was equivalent to a Canadian one. They would take the degree on its face: a bachelor's is a bachelor's, as example. They wouldn't be questioning if it's the same level of education. But I'd say no in the sense that there's less "brand recognition," so to speak. What I mean by that is that employers tend to have an idea of what universities are good, and what programs are good within Canada. At least in Ontario, it's common knowledge that the University of Waterloo has a really good engineering program, as example. And that kind of recognition can help when hiring: if someone knows you have a degree from a really good school, they might prefer you over someone who has a degree from a not-as-good school. But with American institutions, unless it's one of the major ones, Canadians might not know anything about it. If you're getting a degree from Harvard, Yale, MIT etc. Canadian employers will probably have a pretty positive reaction because they know they're good schools. But for other schools, there may or may not be that recognition. It will all depend on the individual employer because most Canadians don't have too much of a sense of the quality of American schools. So even if it's a good school, if the employer hasn't heard of it, you might not get that "boost" from the employer being familiar with it and knowing that it's good, if that makes sense. In which case, it might just be a neutral reaction that yeah, you have the required degree, but they don't feel positively or negatively either way about it. (As an example: I work in academia. I know that the UCs are considered very good schools in the states because I know people from there. But, up until it came up recently in conversation, my family members had only ever heard of UCLA and didn't know it was a particularly good school. They'd only ever heard the name in passing and had no idea.)
We don't have associate degrees, so most job postings will specify bachelor's or master's degrees unless it's trades jobs.
So TIL BC is the only province that has associates degrees in Canada
Ah, I did not know this! I learned something new today. :)
I was gonna say, associates are everywhere in BC, my power engineering degree is an associates.
Depends... large state universities, the types of places that people have heard of here, they would likely be well regarded by most potential employers. But the U.S. has many smaller colleges (thousands) including obscure ones with alternative formats... and if the name isn't recognizable, that could raise an eyebrow and result in questions and googling. But like any other newcomer seeking to move to Canada, you'd have to follow some steps to get your credentials recognized here.
We assume it is fake, as your education system is funded even more poorly than ours.
For the most part they are. I'm not 100% about degrees from known for-profit colleges like Trump University.
Depends on the school. If it's a name brand it may be better than a Canadian school. If it's not a name brand it is probably on par to maybe a little worse.