The scope has expanded to include those with temporary protected status, special immigrant status, and those affected by natural disasters or extreme hardship.
ECE® Aid recipients receive the same trusted, high-quality evaluation reports and customer service that students, professionals, and higher education institutions have come to expect from ECE.
We select experienced, trusted, higher education institutions and nonprofit organizations to distribute fee waiver vouchers to eligible persons. ECE does not provide free reports directly to individuals. Learn more about our participating institutions and organizations.
After a voucher is distributed, the recipient fills out and submits our standard ECE® online application form, enters the coupon code included on the voucher, and sends in the required academic documents for evaluation.
ECE® Aid vouchers cover 100% of the cost for services provided by ECE.
ECE understands that issues can emerge anywhere in the world due to circumstances caused by conflict, natural disasters, and general upheaval. To that end, we place no limitations on eligibility based on which country an ECE® Aid recipient is from.
At ECE, like you, we’ve been touched by the events in Afghanistan, Haiti, and most recently in Ukraine. We know that higher education institutions, government entities, and private organizations all make a difference in the lives of those impacted by harsh natural disasters and human-caused calamities.
ECE took immediate steps to support its allies in international education and refugee resettlement and we are in communication with participants of the ECE® Aid program who are planning to assist refugees with further education and employment opportunities.
Through our ECE® Aid participants:
Our research staff have updated and shared our resources on Afghanistan, Haiti, and Ukraine so educational institutions can serve displaced people more effectively.
When the need arises ECE is there to help.
Learn about some of the individuals who have been impacted by ECE® Aid gifts.
Determined to provide for his small family, Tarig contacted Upwardly Global, a trusted participating organization of ECE® Aid. They awarded Tarig with an ECE® Aid fee waiver, and he has just begun using his ECE evaluation to look for jobs in his profession.
–Tarig O.
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ECE helped Lutheran Family Services Rocky Mountains assist refugees, asylees, and victims of trafficking obtain employment in the United States. With ECE Aid's help, refugees with master's degrees in Teaching, PhDs in Civil Engineering, degrees in Pharmaceutical Sciences, and degrees in Industrial Design have been able to plan for their futures again.
- Katy, Lutheran Family Services Rocky Mountains
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Rehab was awarded a fee waiver through Upwardly Global and received her completed credential evaluation soon after sending her educational documents to ECE. While she job hunts, Rehab has decided to utilize volunteering as her way to master the English language.
- Rehab
Nidal is an agricultural engineer from Syria, who hopes to use our evaluation report to pursue organic farming at Michigan State University.
- Nidal
As part of a minority group, Yasmeen along with her husband and two daughters decided they needed to leave Pakistan due to threats against them and safety concerns for their children. After arriving in America, she used ECE to improve her study and work toward become a teacher in America.
-Yasmeen