Are most University Degrees transferable?

In general, yes, though it depends on the subject. Since your degree title has International in the subject, I’d expect it to be interesting to employers in other countries who wanted an employee with such knowledge.

On the other hand, I’ve never heard of a BCA, and sometimes you end up needing to explain the context of your degrees to people in other countries, which means you may need to learn what’s available in their country’s schools so you can explain what your degree corresponds to, how rigorous your school was, etc.

If you mean just about transferring from one college or university to another, it depends. Often they may may only give you partial credits for courses taken at another school.

This is a difficult question. It’s much more effective to pick colleges you want to go to, and call them, asking if they accept credits from a specific college, or asking them for their policies on it.

It depends on how comparable the degree is to those in Canada. Are they both 4 year degrees? What you are studying in NZ and what would be required in Canada? For instance in the US we have 2 year degrees that in most cases mean little to nothing even in our own system, except for some very specific courses of study. Luckily business degrees usually do get recognized, and the international business world is more familiar with various degrees. Something like a medical degree is much different, and usually requires jumping through more hoops to be able to practice in another country.

If I were you I would look up online the major universities in the Province you will be living in, and check out their requirements for a similar degree. See if the classes look the same.

It’s variable, because each one makes up their own policy. You need to check in advance if you are planning ahead to transfer.

If you have completed a degree at an accredited university, it will be recognized in other countries. Where you do your degree is usually not a major factor unless (1) you went to one of the top universities in the world, or (2) you went to an unaccredited university. The former is obviously an advantage, while the latter is a disadvantage. Victoria University of Wellington is a perfectly good school, so I doubt it will matter that you went to school in New Zealand when you relocate to Canada.

I’m doing a 3 year University degree. That’s how long a standard degree takes to complete here, unless you’re wanting to do honours etc. I am transferring to MacMaster for a year, next June but I still need to come back to my Uni. in NZ to graduate. It’s just a program my school offers.

Thanks for the help, that makes sense @SavoirFaire @YARNLADY @JLeslie @Blackberry @Zaku

Sometimes. For things like medicine, probably not. I once worked at a hotel in Beverly Hills and I was surprised at how many pharmacists and pediatricians from India were applying for things like “housekeeper” positions because their degrees weren’t recognized here.

An idea (no clue if it’s based on reality) would be to contact an institution at your destination and see what they can do (maybe check out your courses and grant you an equivalent certificate)

What exactly is a BCA? It’d probably be helpful to remember to say the full name around people who don’t know the acronym, which they won’t if they aren’t from New Zealand.

@msbcd In the US a 3 year undergraduate degree doesn’t exist. You can do a 4 year degree if you double up on coursework and go summers, but technically all of our bachelors/undergraduate degrees are 4 years. Not sure about Canada. I think what would matter in the US is if you did a similar amount of coursework in your major. In the US we do quite a bit of electives and general prerequisites in the first two years of university. I’ll send your question to some Canadian Jellies.

@Aethelflaed Bachelor of Commerce Administration. At the moment I’m majoring in International Business and Finance, but I’ll probably be adding a Marketing Management major to that as well, in the future.

@JLeslie So I’ve heard. Although most undergraduate courses are 3 yrs here, the degrees should equate to those of the US and Canada. I do however think that I’ll need to do a few additional papers on taxation and law, just to familiarize myself with their rules and processes.

@mrrich724 I’m actually in contact with a few Universities in Canada at the moment. Apparently the degree I’m doing is easily cross-credited to a 4 yr business degree. It all comes down to experience really. So as long as I’ve got a Vic degree, I can start applying it to whichever position I’ll be in once I’m there.

There ya go!