Foreign diploma recognition (reconnaissance d’un diplôme étranger)

You can seek recognition of your foreign diploma to study or work in France, whatever your nationality. The Centre Enic-Naric can issue a statement of comparability, which you request online on its website. For study, your receiving institution decides whether to recognise your diploma when you apply to enrol.

Steps

Study: general case

1. Apply to enrol at your receiving institution in France: it decides whether to recognise your foreign diploma.
2. If the institution asks for a statement of comparability, request it online on the Centre Enic-Naric website.
3. When requesting the statement, pay online unless you are an asylum seeker or a refugee.

Study through a European programme

1. Ask your university or school's international relations office about recognition of your diplomas.

Work in a non-regulated profession

1. If your future employer asks for a statement of comparability, request it online on the Centre Enic-Naric website.
2. When requesting the statement, pay online unless you are an asylum seeker or a refugee.

Work in a regulated profession

1. Contact the Centre Enic-Naric to find out which steps you must take.

Documents to bring

Study: general case

Work in a non-regulated profession

Key facts

• Your statement of comparability costs 120 €, unless you are an asylum seeker or a refugee.
• The Centre Enic-Naric must answer your request for a statement of comparability within 4 months after payment.
• You receive your statement of comparability by email after your diplomas have been examined.
• For study in the general case, your statement of comparability has no legal value and is not compulsory; the institution makes the final decision.
• Only a diploma recognised by its country of issue can qualify for your statement of comparability.