When you hold more than one credential — for example, a bachelor's degree from your home country plus a one-year diploma completed in Canada — it's easy to wonder whether SINP scores each credential separately.
What members clarified:- Only your highest attained education level is generally counted for points, not every credential you hold — so a bachelor's degree typically supersedes a shorter diploma for scoring purposes.
- Get an ECA for your foreign degree to establish its Canadian equivalency; your Canadian diploma, since it was earned in Canada, doesn't need a separate ECA.
- If your foreign bachelor's is assessed as equivalent to a Canadian bachelor's, that's the credential level you use for scoring — the Canadian diploma can still be mentioned/listed but isn't the primary scoring basis when you hold a higher-level foreign credential.
Takeaway: identify your highest overall education level first, get the appropriate ECA for any foreign component of it, and score based on that — rather than trying to add up multiple separate credentials.