Center for Applied Research, Evaluation, and Education, Inc.

What Center for Applied Research, Evaluation, and Education, Inc. does

Center for Applied Research, Evaluation, and Education, Inc., doing business as IESCAREE (International Evaluation Services), is a private credential evaluation service founded in 1980 and headquartered in Anaheim, California. The company provides U.S. equivalency assessments of foreign academic credentials for internationally educated professionals seeking access to U.S. higher education, employment, professional licensing, and immigration documentation. IESCAREE originated from a federally funded National Project for Indochinese Document Evaluation established at California State University, Long Beach in 1975, and became independent in 1980.

The company offers two core report products — a General Evaluation Report (statement of equivalency) and a Comprehensive Course-by-Course Evaluation Report (with U.S. credit and grade equivalents) — supplemented by add-on services including GPA Calculation ($20 per program), Rush Service in 2/5/10 business day tiers ($150/$65/$40), Digital Delivery ($15), and Additional Sealed Official Evaluations. Service delivery is exclusively by mail and email: customers mail application packages to a P.O. Box or courier address in Anaheim, and reports are returned by mail or emailed digitally. The underlying methodology relies on direct verification with institutions of study or Ministries of Education, an internal reference library covering educational systems of 95+ countries, and specialized reconstruction expertise for applicants with missing or incomplete documentation.

IESCAREE is a Charter Member of the National Association of Credential Evaluation Services (NACES) and appears on the approval lists of academic institutions, employers, government agencies (including U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service), and professional licensing boards. The company is privately held with 11-50 employees, no disclosed funding rounds, no parent company, and no acquisitions; management disclosure is limited to a single director. Revenue is not publicly disclosed, and the firm has shown no recent product, geographic, or organizational expansion signals.

Name

Center for Applied Research, Evaluation, and Education, Inc.

Legal name

Center for Applied Research, Evaluation, and Education, Inc.

Website

https://iescaree.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1980

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

IESCAREE is a NACES Charter Member credential evaluation service, founded in 1980 in Anaheim, CA, that assesses foreign academic credentials for U.S. equivalency. It serves internationally educated individuals needing evaluations for higher education admission, employment, professional licensing, and immigration, processing applications via mail and email.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Credential Evaluation Services

NAICS

Educational Support Services (6117)

SIC

Services-Educational Services (8200)

akta.pro primary industry

Credentialing, Academic Credit, Assessment & Transcript Services (EDAIAFAO)

Keywords

• Foreign credential evaluation
• Educational document verification
• Academic credential assessment
• International education evaluation
• Credential equivalency services

Headquarters

HQ city

Anaheim

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Others, Technology or R&D

Revenue model

1. Credential Evaluation Services: One-time evaluation fees for academic credential evaluations. Fees vary by evaluation type (General Report vs. Comprehensive Course-by-Course), number of programs/degrees evaluated, and optional services such as GPA calculation, rush processing, and additional sealed reports.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

IESCAREE evaluates and verifies foreign educational documents, producing credential evaluation reports that assign U.S. educational equivalencies to academic credentials earned outside the United States. Reports are used by internationally educated individuals for U.S. higher education admission, employment, professional licensing (medicine, nursing, engineering, law, accounting, etc.), and immigration documentation. The service is delivered by mail and email, drawing on a multi-step verification process and a reference library covering 95+ countries.

Product overview

IESCAREE (International Evaluation Services of the Center for Applied Research, Evaluation and Education, Inc.) is a credential evaluation service provider offering two core evaluation report products: the General Evaluation Report (a statement of equivalency for employment, immigration, and admissions purposes) and the Comprehensive Course-by-Course Evaluation Report (which includes course-level U.S. equivalency with credits and grades for graduate admissions and professional licensing). These core products are complemented by optional add-on services including GPA Calculation ($20/program), Rush Service (2-10 business day expedited processing), Digital Delivery ($15), and Additional Sealed Official Evaluations. The company has operated since 1980 and is a Charter Member of NACES.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• General Evaluation Report A statement of U.S. educational equivalency summarizing the applicant's foreign educational background with the U.S. level of equivalency assigned for each program or degree obtained. Intended for employment, immigration, financial aid, and college admissions purposes. Priced per program/degree; GPA is not available on this report type.
• Comprehensive Course-by-Course Evaluation Report An evaluation that includes both a statement of equivalency and a course-by-course analysis with U.S. equivalent credits and grades for each course taken. Used for university and graduate-level admissions and professional examination/licensing purposes. Priced per program/degree and required for the optional GPA Calculation service.
• GPA Calculation Optional add-on service that calculates a U.S. equivalent GPA from the credits and grades established in a Comprehensive Course-by-Course Evaluation Report. Available only with the Comprehensive evaluation, priced at $20 per program/degree.
• Rush Service Expedited evaluation processing offered in three turnaround tiers: 2 business days ($150 additional fee), 5 business days ($65 additional fee), and 10 business days ($40 additional fee). Rush requests must be paid by cashier's check, money order, or invoice (personal checks not accepted for rush service).
• Digital Delivery Optional service that emails the evaluation report as an attachment directly to the receiving institution, priced at $15 per delivery.
• Additional Sealed Official Evaluation Additional sealed official evaluation copies that can be requested while the applicant's file is active (files are maintained for three years from evaluation completion, with an option to extend), for an additional per-copy fee.

Named customers4 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

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App detail

Feature3 records

Partnerships

Three partnerships are on record, tiered historical.

• U.S. Office of Education (USOE)historicalOthersOriginally established as part of a federally funded National Project for Indochinese Document Evaluation under the auspices of USOE and Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, in coordination with U.S. Office of Refugee Resettlement and National Liaison Committee on Foreign Student Admissions.
• U.S. Office of Refugee Resettlement (USORR)historicalOthersPartnered with USORR as part of the original National Project for Indochinese Document Evaluation established at California State University, Long Beach in 1975.
• California State University, Long BeachhistoricalOthersOriginal host institution for the federally funded National Project for Indochinese Document Evaluation in 1975, which later evolved into IESCAREE.

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• SpanTran: SpanTran is a credential evaluation service specializing in Course-by-Course evaluations with a digital intake platform. It targets a similar applicant pool for admissions, immigration, and professional licensing and competes on turnaround and pricing.
• International Education Evaluations (IEE): IEE is a NACES member offering General and Course-by-Course evaluation reports to internationally educated applicants. It is comparable in scale, NACES affiliation, and service mix to IESCAREE.
• Educational Records Evaluation Service (ERES): ERES is a NACES member credential evaluation service offering General, Course-by-Course, and professional reports. It serves the same applicant segments (admissions, immigration, licensing) and competes on similar turnaround-based pricing.
• Educational Credential Evaluators (ECE): ECE is a NACES Charter member providing General, Course-by-Course, and professional licensing evaluations with an online application portal. Closely matches IESCAREE's product set and institutional approval-list positioning.
• World Education Services (WES): WES is the largest U.S. credential evaluation service and a NACES member, offering General and Course-by-Course evaluations, document verification, and immigration-related services. It is IESCAREE's most direct large-scale competitor with a digital-first platform and global reach.
• Foundation for International Services (FIS): FIS is a NACES member credential evaluation service providing General and Course-by-Course reports to international applicants. Comparable scope and customer base to IESCAREE, with overlapping disciplinary and country coverage.
• AACRAO International Education Services: AACRAO International is the credential evaluation arm of AACRAO, a NACES member offering comparable General and Course-by-Course evaluation reports. Highly comparable in scope, target customers (academic institutions and applicants), and NACES-affiliated positioning.

Others

• National Association of Credential Evaluation Services (NACES): NACES is the U.S. industry association for credential evaluators and IESCAREE's Charter Member body. It is not a competitor but sets evaluation standards, publishes the member directory, and drives referral traffic to IESCAREE and its peers.

Emerging players

• Scholaro: Scholaro operates an online-first credential evaluation platform targeting international students and immigrants at lower price points. It overlaps with IESCAREE's B2C applicant base but is differentiated by its pure-online delivery model.

Broad incumbents

• Educational Testing Service (ETS): ETS is a large incumbent in international education assessment (TOEFL, GRE, Praxis) and adjacent to credential evaluation. It does not directly compete on U.S. credential equivalency reports but is a major presence in the international-applicant ecosystem that IESCAREE operates in.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat6 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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