The National Association of Credential Evaluation Services (NACES) is a United States non-profit organization, established in 1987, which is a member-based organization of private companies that provide transcript evaluation services of academic degrees awarded from non-United States educational institutions.
[1] While some institutions undertake such evaluations themselves, others instead refer students to one of 19 private companies which are members of NACES.
[3][4][5] The National Institutes of Health requires prospective job applicants with non-United States degrees to have their credentials evaluated by a NACES member.
[6] According to U.S. News & World Report, "NACES members commit to an enforced code of ethics and undergo an in-depth prescreening and yearly recertification".
[2] NACES reports its standards for accreditation of evaluation agencies require that they employ evaluation specialists who have five or more years full-time experience in international admissions at a regionally accredited American university, accept periodic on-site inspection from NACES, adhere to a code of ethics, and maintain "extensive reference, resource libraries, and other databases".