Transcripts Requirements
If you completed your TCM Education in Canada, you are required to submit an official transcript in a sealed school envelop.
Transcript requirements include, but are not limited to, the following information in English:
- School information: School name and contact information including address; telephone number
- Student information: Legal name; Student number; Birth date; Gender
- Dates: Transcript issued; Enrollment date; Completion date
- Type of training program: Acupuncture, Herbology, Practitioner, Doctor
- Course information listed according to Schedule E: Course hours; credits and grade earned; Instructor names and qualifications (for each course); Starting and ending dates for each course; Courses must be listed by academic year and in chronological order; Clinical training courses must be identified; Clinical training to specify hours for Acupuncture and Herbology separately
- Total course hours/credits earned by: Each academic year (Subtotal of course hours/credits earned); Current date (Total of course hours/credits earned)
- Transfer course requirements: Identification of all transfer credits; Hours and credits assigned to each transfer course; Original transcript from institution providing the transferred course(s); ICES report if the other institution is located outside Canada
- Official signature and school stamp: Signature of School Official and date of signature; Printed name and Title of School Official
- Additional transcript requirements: Information to convert credits into course hours; Final transcript: signed statement that the training program has been successfully completed in accordance with Schedule E.
If you completed your TCM education outside of Canada, you are required to submit a credential evaluation report issued by members of Alliance of Credential Evaluation Services of Canada (e.g. International Credential Evaluation Service (ICES) – BCIT; World Education Services (WES)). The report must be sent directly from the credential evaluation agency to CTCMA with a copy of transcript attached. Please refer to Credential Evaluation Report below for more information.
Exception
If a credential evaluation report for proof of education completed outside of Canada was submitted to and accepted by CTCMA previously for writing another registration examination, another credential evaluation report for the same credentials do not need to be re-submitted. Please make sure to provide a credential evaluation report for any new study completed but was not included in the previous credential evaluation report
Graduates and students from BC
Official transcript from accredited college or university.
Graduates and students from Quebec
Quebec Ministry of Education issues a transcript confirming Diplome d’etudes collegiales (DEC). For university admission, these students are normally granted 30 credits of advanced standing, reducing a 120-credit requirement to 90 credits or 6 semesters. Some degrees require additional semesters for completion, i.e. B.Eng. Please note the citation on the CEGEP transcript will be:
(Year, i.e. 2000) DEC (diplome d’etudes preuniversitaire)
The Quebec Ministry of Education transcript is preferable to the CEGEP transcript. The CEGEP DES (Diplome d’etudes secondaires) is NOT the same as the DEC.
Graduates and students from other Canadian provinces
Transcript from the institution you attended. You may be required to obtain a basic credential evaluation report from International Credential Evaluation Services (ICES), depending on the courses completed and institution attended.
The College has prepared a detailed Information Sheet to outline how the College accesses liberal arts and sciences credentials for meeting examination and/or registration requirement. Please check for detailed information and whether your credentials meet this requirement and what evidence you should provide to the College to support your application(s) to the College
If you graduated from a school outside of Canada, you are required to submit a credential evaluation report issued by members of Alliance of Credential Evaluation Services of Canada (e.g. International Credential Evaluation Service (ICES) – BCIT; World Education Services (WES)). Please refer to Credential Evaluation Report below for more information.
The credential evaluation report must state that your education is “considered generally comparable to the completion of the first two years of undergraduate study”.
Exception
If a credential evaluation report for proof of education completed outside of Canada was submitted to and accepted by CTCMA previously for writing another registration examination, another credential evaluation report for the same credentials do not need to be re-submitted. Please make sure to provide a credential evaluation report for any new study completed but was not included in the previous credential evaluation report.
The College has prepared a detailed Information Sheet to outline how the College accesses liberal arts and sciences credentials for meeting examination and/or registration requirement. Please check for detailed information and whether your credentials meet this requirement and what evidence you should provide to the College to support your application(s) to the College.
CTCMA accepts credential evaluation reports issued by members of Alliance of Credential Evaluation Services of Canada (ACESC).
The credential evaluation report to support your registration/examination application must be received by CTCMA before the registration/examination application deadline. Please check the document submission methods in the application guideline/form for each registration category.
Please note that different credential evaluation agencies might have different processing time to issue the report. To avoid delay, please check with them to ensure your report will be received by CTCMA on time.