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Dawn M. Pinnock
Commissioner
Barbara Dannenberg
Deputy Commissioner
Human Capital
Human Capital - Bureau of Examinations
The David N. Dinkins Municipal Building
One Centre Street, New York, NY 10007
Automated Telephone: (212) 669-1357
Foreign Education Evaluation Guide
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What You Need To Know:
• In order to receive credit in the examination for your foreign education, you must have your
foreign education evaluated by one of the approved services listed in the Approved
Foreign Education Evaluation Services section that begins on Page 3.
• Refer to the Notice of Examination to find out whether you need a "document-by-document"
evaluation (general) or a "course-by-course" evaluation (which includes a "document-by-
document" evaluation) of your foreign education.
• The cost of evaluating your foreign education is paid by the applicant.
• Your evaluation must be received no later than 8 weeks from the date specified on the Notice
of Examination. If your evaluation is not received by this time, your foreign education will not
be rated and you may be found “not qualified”. An extension of this time limit is available if the
evaluation service submits an acceptable reason in writing for the delay.
• All acceptable foreign education evaluations submitted by the evaluation service directly to the
New York City Department of Citywide Administrative Services (DCAS) will be retained in a
permanent file for future reference.
However, if a document-by-document evaluation is on file with DCAS and you are now
applying for an examination that requires a course-by-course evaluation to meet the education
qualification, you will need to have an evaluatiuon service send DCAS a course-by-course
evaluation to update your evaluation retained on file.
• If you are having a foreign education evaluation sent to DCAS for the first time and you are
applying for multiple exams in the same month, the evaluation service that you use only needs
to send DCAS one foreign education evaluation (document-by-document or course-by-
course).
As a reminder, a course-by-course evaluation includes a document-by-document
evaluation.