An applicant's WES report downgraded their credentials — BS (Computer Science) equated to a 3-year Canadian diploma and MS (Computer Science) to a 4-year bachelor's, with no master's equivalence for 16+2 years of education. The thread's guidance:
- Understand what actually counts. Only the highest degree's equivalency feeds your points — members noted there's no need to pay for assessing both the bachelor's and master's separately.
- You're not alone — WES is known to be strict on this pattern. Another member reported the identical outcome (18 years of education equated to a bachelor's), and the thread's characterization was "very rigid behaviour of WES" for certain country/degree structures.
- The remedy members suggested: try a different designated body. Rather than fighting WES, contact one of the other IRCC-designated equivalency organizations (IQAS was named) and get reassessed — outcomes differ between bodies.
- On whether conflicting reports hurt: the poster asked if one body saying bachelor's and another saying master's causes immigration problems; the thread didn't flag an issue with using the more favourable report, but this specific question wasn't authoritatively answered — you submit the ECA you choose to rely on.