In today’s dynamic and globally connected education landscape, colleges and universities are welcoming students from every corner of the world. While this diversity enriches campuses and classrooms, it also presents a consistent challenge: efficiently evaluating transcripts that differ widely in language, format, grading scale, and structure.
International credential evaluation is a highly skilled process that requires precision and context; it's also time-intensive and resource-heavy. ECE is an industry leader providing expert evaluation services. To further their service to institutions, Educational Credential Evaluators (ECE®) is collaborating with MyDocs, an AI-powered transcript processing platform, to bring institutions enhanced digitized academic data. With the introduction of MyDocs Academic Profiles (MAPs™), ECE is streamlining how academic data is extracted, standardized, and shared—adding a new layer of institutional insight and efficiency to every ECE® Course by Course report.
“At ECE we’re always looking for ways to maintain our high standards while improving the experience for institutions and students,” said Stacy Riley, President at ECE. “Collaborating with MyDocs allows us to do just that, combining human expertise with smart technology to deliver faster credential evaluations with actionable insights.”
The Challenges of International Credential Evaluation
Institutions and evaluators face several key hurdles in comparing education earned in one country to the academic system in another, such as the U.S. or Canada:
- Inconsistent Transcript Formats: Academic records from different countries vary widely in structure, language, and terminology.
- Varying Grading Scales: Grading scales vary significantly across countries and continue to evolve over time. To support informed and equitable admissions decisions, international grades must be accurately converted to align with the current U.S. or Canadian academic systems.
- Manual Institutional Processing Time: Extracting and interpreting international transcript data by hand slows down decision making.
Institutions need an optimized process to review international transcripts, ensure fairness, and deliver timely decisions. That’s where ECE’s collaboration with MyDocs MAPs comes in.
How MyDocs MAP™ Enhances the Credit Evaluation Process
ECE has been a leader in credential evaluation for 45 years, and with the integration of the MyDocs MAP, together we are raising the bar by providing institutions with an efficient approach to making data-driven admissions decisions.
- Standardized Data Extraction: MyDocs uses advanced AI to extract and digitize academic data from transcripts—regardless of format, language, or layout. The result? A supplemental academic profile presenting student information, course-level detail, GPA breakdowns, and credit data in a consistent format. This academic profile is an added value to ECE’s standard Course by Course report.
- Improved Institution Efficiency: Institutions can quickly verify student readiness and program alignment with data integration removing manually converting or re-entering data. It also provides necessary data often used to make merit scholarship decisions easier!
- Faster Admissions Decisions: The digitized academic profile enables institutions to integrate credential data directly into their systems, automating a current manual process. This streamlined format facilitates faster academic record review and supports accelerated admissions decisions.
A MyDocs MAP™ delivered through ECE offers a clear, standardized view of international academic records—making admissions decisions faster and easier.
The Future of Credential Evaluation with AI-Powered Insights
AI is no longer a future concept—it’s a present-day advantage. Tools like the MyDocs MAP are transforming how institutions handle admissions decisions:
- Global Readiness: MyDocs is designed to support the translation of transcripts from any country and in any format into English, enhancing ECE’s ability to assist institutions in expanding global student recruitment efforts.
- Informed Decision-Making: Admissions teams get structured, actionable insights that align with institutional requirements.
- Support for Student Mobility: Faster evaluations mean students can transition between systems more easily, reducing friction and supporting equity in access.
Institutions that work with ECE and select to receive MyDocs MAP position themselves to respond faster, recruit smarter, and better serve international learners in an increasingly competitive landscape.
Conclusion: Smarter Evaluations Start Here
The integration of MyDocs MAPs into every Course-by-Course evaluation enhances ECE’s service by providing institutions with structured, reliable, and immediately usable academic data—offering added value to support faster and more informed decision-making that is scalable.
Want to see how ECE and MyDocs MAP can support your institution’s international admissions process?
Together, ECE in collaboration with MyDocs are delivering expert evaluations with AI-powered insights.