Systems and methods for analysis of international education credential equivalence

A method for converting educational credentials from a first country to credentials for a second country, comprising:

• receiving first data from a user at a processor, the first data related to course grades and credits earned in the first country and a selection of the second country from among a plurality of countries, wherein the second country has a grading scale and a credit scale that is different from the grading scale and the credit scale of the first country;
• retrieving second data from a database using the processor based on the first data, wherein the database comprises data related to grading scales and credit scales for educational credentials for a plurality of countries, the second data related to the grading scale and the credit scale of the second country, the database further comprising for each country and each grade weight:
• a country grade start field, a country grade end field, grade weight field, a grade weight start field, and a grade weight end field, the country grade start field and a country grade end field defining a range of country grades for a grade weight in the grade weight field, the grade weight start field and the grade weight end field defining an intermediate grade range for the grade weight in the grade weight field;
• converting the course grades and credits earned in the first country to intermediate grades and intermediate credits, wherein the intermediate grades and the intermediate credits represent numeric values of the course grades and credits earned based on the grading scale and the credit scale of the first country, wherein the processor determines the intermediate grades using the course grades earned in the first country and the country grade weight start field and the country grade weight end field for the first country to determine a corresponding grade weight;
• converting the intermediate grades and the intermediate credits to equivalent grades, credits, and grade point averages in the grading scale and the credit scale of the second country based on the second data using the processor, wherein the processor determines the grades of the second country using the intermediate grades and the country grade start field and country grade end field for the second country, and wherein the processor determines the grades of the second country using the corresponding grade weight and the country weight start field and the country weight end field for the second country;
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• providing the grades, credits, and grade point average equivalent in the grading scale and the credit scale of the second country to an electronic display from the processor for display to the user, wherein the grades of the second country are provided as a range corresponding to the country weight start field and the country weight end field for the second country.

A system for converting educational credentials from a first country to credentials for a second country, comprising:

• means for receiving first data from a user, the first data related to course grades and credits earned in the first country and a selection of the second country from among a plurality of countries, wherein the second country has a grading scale and a credit scale that is different from the grading scale and the credit scale of the first country;
• means for retrieving second data from a database using a processor based on the first data, wherein the database comprises data related to grading scales and credit scales for educational credentials for a plurality of countries, the second data related to the grading scale and the credit scale of the second country, the database further comprising for each country and each grade weight:
• a country grade start field, a country grade end field, grade weight field, a grade weight start field, and a grade weight end field, the country grade start field and a country grade end field defining a range of country grades for a grade weight in the grade weight field, the grade weight start field and the grade weight end field defining an intermediate grade range for the grade weight in the grade weight field;
• means for converting the course grades and credits earned in the first country to intermediate grades and intermediate credits, wherein the intermediate grades and the intermediate credits represent numeric values of the course grades and credits earned based on the grading scale and the credit scale of the first country, wherein the processor determines the intermediate grades using the course grades earned in the first country and the country grade weight start field and the country grade weight end field for the first country to determine a corresponding grade weight;
• means for converting the intermediate grades and the intermediate credits to equivalent grades, credits, and grade point averages in the grading scale and the credit scale of the second country based on the second data using the processor, wherein the processor determines the grades of the second country using the corresponding grade weight and the country grade start field and the country grade end field for the second country in the database, and wherein the processor determines the grades of the second country using the corresponding grade weight and the country weight start field and the country weight end field for the second country;
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• means for providing the numeric grades, credits, and grade point average equivalent in the grading scale and the credit scale of the second country to the user, wherein the grades of the second country are provided as a range corresponding to the country weight start field and the country weight end field for the second country.