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I have a 4year bachelor's degree in Business Admin. from University of Benin and my BSc was assessed as equivalent to Australian associate degree. So I'm considering including my one year PGD from Pan-Atlantic University for reassessment and my assessing body is VETASSESS. What do you think?

mjlbabajide:
Well, if you look through DIBP and assessing body websites, they only mention masters, bsc(uni degree), diploma, or vocational. All these can only be assessed independently and not combined into one.

My source is my experience.

Which is not all Nigerian universities gets positive assessment for 4year course. So you might need to find if your uni is one of such schools or not.

But like some people with different assessment experince have said, this issue differs from one assessing authority to another.

Therefor i conclude by saying you might want to let us know your course of study, university attended and assessing body. It is possible we find someone who scaled through or did not scale through with your exact situation

Hi @mjlbabajide, just have a quick question regarding the 5years equivalency of Nigerian degrees to Australia's. Can a 4year bachelors degree and 1year PGD equal an Australian bachelors degree? And do you have a source for your claims?

mjlbabajide:
Kindly note that i am a member if that thread. Nobody ever mentioned school ranking there.

Lemme educate you based on my experience. My friend from OAU and i, appliied for assessment with Vetassess.

We both studied 4year geology course, i did in my study at University of Maiduguri.. going by our transcripts i offered more course work than him with more industrial attachments.

He got positive assessment for education while mine was a negative assessment, sighting that mine was not equivalent to an australian degree.

I quickly followed up with them, with my friends case. Then i received a long mail from them telling me that they have a ranking system in place for Nigerian Universities and in order to be positively assessed from University of Maiduguri, i have to come up with a 5years degree. That is they only grant positive assessment for 4years course from just a few select institution.

So OGA i know what am talking about. This might help someone. This was late 2015. If i had gone through school route jeje, i would be rounding up now, even then. Dollar was cheap, you need to know that there is nothing as dangerous as delay.

Mind you i am not a fountain of knowledge i am only sharing experience not hear say.

I payed 800AUD for that assessment. So please let us be objective and educate people well, b4 you go waste months and money to obtain a negative assessment at the end of the day.

I will try login in into vetassess and provide you their response.

That is my 3 cowries

Thank you mamajaz.

mamajaz:
Please if your points can still carry you with the associate things I don't think it's necessary spending precious time on appeal, just move on. However, if that has made you lose points and your points are insufficient due to that, you may give appealing a trial( provided it's possible).

Will explore other options then, thanks for contributions.

bellong:
Appealing it may not yield any positive result. Someone I know from UNIBEN got the same thing.

Do you have any additional qualification?

Are you able to find an occupation that requires a diploma or associate degree?

Thanks for the feedback bellong. I nominated Public Relations Professional(state nomination), a much need field in ACT. Would you advise I appeal the assessment?

bellong:
Which occupation did you nominate?

VETASSES is a funny body that assess differently from others. It doesn't mean your degree is lower than Australian bachelor degree, only that VETASSES think it is. They have some selected universities they assess equal to Australia bachelor degree.

Friends, please I need your advice on a situation. My bachelor's degree in Business Admin(2.1) from UNIBEN was assessed as an associate degree by VETASSESS, so my question, Is Nigerian bachelor degree equivalent to Australian associate degree? Or was my qualifications wrongly assessed. Your thoughts please.

Friends, please I need your advice on a situation. My bachelor's degree in Business Admin(2.1) from UNIBEN was assessed as an associate degree by VETASSESS, so my question, Is Nigerian bachelor degree equivalent to Australian associate degree? Or was my qualifications wrongly assessed. Your thoughts please.

@WestAfrican, please I need your advice on a situation. My bachelor's degree in Business Admin(2.1) from UNIBEN was assessed as an associate degree by VETASSESS, so my question, Is Nigerian bachelor degree equivalent to Australian associate degree? Or was my qualifications wrongly assessed. Your thoughts please.

WestAfrican:
My bro I have always advocated for PR rather than study. But in a situation where one finds it difficult scoring 60 points and above and wants to leave the country as things are getting worse then it's better to opt for a study visa then carry on from there.

Masters gives you equal point as undergraduate degree. The advantage of applying while in the country is:
~You can appeal the decision
~ You are still on your student visa and will remain in the country
~ You can continue your studies and earn a master's degree
~You get a 2 year graduate study visa after you graduate
~You can lodge another PR
~You can get married (if still single) and get your PR through that avenue

There are heaps of PhD students in Australia who are still finding it difficult to get their PR all because they couldn't score 20 points in ielts TOEFL.

If your Bsc certificate is not from Australia you will most likely be asked by your case officer to apply via Engineering technologiest and believe there are thousands of applicants and only 20-30% make it before the window closes and these ones have wealth of working experiences under their belts.

There is no problem giving it a crack thou but then like I previously said, I would only do it in those conditions I had listed above.

Everyone will tackle the situation from a different perspective but left for me I will tackle the way I have mentioned (na person wey wear shoe know wer e dey pain am)

@WestAfrican, please I need your advice on a situation. My bachelor's degree in Business Admin(2.1) from UNIBEN was assessed as an associate degree by VETASSESS, so my question, Is Nigerian bachelor degree equivalent to Australian associate degree? Or was my qualifications wrongly assessed. Your thoughts please.

WestAfrican:
My bro I have always advocated for PR rather than study. But in a situation where one finds it difficult scoring 60 points and above and wants to leave the country as things are getting worse then it's better to opt for a study visa then carry on from there.

Masters gives you equal point as undergraduate degree. The advantage of applying while in the country is:
~You can appeal the decision
~ You are still on your student visa and will remain in the country
~ You can continue your studies and earn a master's degree
~You get a 2 year graduate study visa after you graduate
~You can lodge another PR
~You can get married (if still single) and get your PR through that avenue

There are heaps of PhD students in Australia who are still finding it difficult to get their PR all because they couldn't score 20 points in ielts TOEFL.

If your Bsc certificate is not from Australia you will most likely be asked by your case officer to apply via Engineering technologiest and believe there are thousands of applicants and only 20-30% make it before the window closes and these ones have wealth of working experiences under their belts.

There is no problem giving it a crack thou but then like I previously said, I would only do it in those conditions I had listed above.

Everyone will tackle the situation from a different perspective but left for me I will tackle the way I have mentioned (na person wey wear shoe know wer e dey pain am)

@Bellong Please I need your advice on a situation. My bachelor degree in Business Admin(2.1) from Uniben was assessed as an associate degree by VETASSESS. So my question, Is a Nigerian bachelor degree assessed or equivalent to an associate degree in Australia? If no, what might have gone wrong in my case? Should I appeal the assessment. Will appreciate your feedback.

bellong:
I actually did mine myself and get it notarized by a notary public.

Congrats DJ. Please what date is your orientation or when will you start attending lectures?

DJphamz:
Hi guys. I'm a silent member... I am glad to inform you that I got my grant this evening after a very annoying wait.
Online submission:22nd july
Medicals submitted 28th July
Grant came today.
I'm heading to Newcastle this weekend.
Please Newcastle guys..i will be needing you.
Gracias

When is he supposed to start his program in Australia?

miie:
thanks so much..... Yes he gave a genuine bank statement and everytn dey ask bt my fear is maybe its cs he applied for his wife and children...... They even cald him to ask y his family is nt going wt him since he applied togeda wt dem and he tld dem dt dey will come and meet him dere later