Education Evaluation

Education Evaluation

Individuals seeking registration with ECSA as engineering practitioners while they are in possession of non-accredited local or foreign engineering qualification(s), or those not recognized by ECSA through the International Engineering Alliance (IEA) Accords, that is, the Washington Accord, Dublin Accord and Sydney Accord, may request ECSA to evaluate such qualification(s) so as to determine substantial equivalence to determine eligibility towards application for registration with ECSA in one of its Categories.

Individuals wishing to register in the following categories:

are required to satisfy the educational component towards registration by means of one of the following:

Holding an ECSA-accredited qualification or combination of qualifications for the category; or





Holding a qualification recognised by ECSA under an international educational agreement because it is accredited by a signatory to an educational agreement relevant to the category; or


Holding a qualification or combination of qualifications evaluated by ECSA as being substantially equivalent to an ECSA-accredited South African qualification ; or



Undergoing individual assessment should the applicant not hold any of the above.





To apply for Education Evaluation, the following documents needs to be submitted:

Education Evaluation application form.



Certified copies of all qualification certificates, with translations if not in English.


Certified copies of all academic records/ transcripts, with translations if not in English.


A curriculum analysis using the worksheet provided with as much details as possible. Annexure A and Annexure B provided by ECSA.




Syllabi of the subjects studied, with translations if not in English.





Final year project report(s)






MIE or SAQA verification certificate.




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