Is it possible to transfer credits internationally?

[agreeta]

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Hello everyone...

I have some kind of hard situation.. I am having a good relationship with my gf for almost 3 years. finally we could be able to decide it was good time to get engage and marry.. But the problem is I live in Turkiye. I have been in US 2 times as a work and travel (kind of cultural exchange) student in Seattle, NY, NJ... and I met her in Seattle.

We have been having a long distance relationship and finally she decided to come Turkiye. She left his life, family, job and everything.. She has been here for a little more than a month.. We saw that it is getting so much hard for her to adapt family life, culture, country and many differences.

I think, it is my turn to compromise so i am going to try my best to figure out what i can do about moving and starting new life in there.

At this point i need your help!

In here i am studying Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation at one of the best universities. Study takes 4 years here. I took almost 110 credits already. And also i have some clinic experience. I am going to share the classes i took already. I need you to tell me the if there is diffences between classes please..

Another thing is the cost of study. In Turkiye, puplic universities are totally free. You just need get a good score in an exam to get in universities. (over 1,500,000 student graduated from high school attending this exam and to study PT in my university you have be in first 6000).. As i know in US if you are permanent residence state universities are cheaper. I have drivers license from chicago and have some proof of residency, even now i am in Turkiye is it possible for me to study there cheaper? or which universities(anywhere in US cheaper to study PT)

Last thing.. in US they mostly call it Doctor of PT but we call it physiotherapist is it the same thing? should i care about it when i search faculties..

Thanks for the helps...

Here are the classes i already took:

 

[Architect2PT]

PT schools here require a bachelors degree (with some direct entry exceptions) which I'm not sure if you have that already. Some of the earlier classes look like they may qualify as pre-requisite classes that would be required in addition to having the bachelors degree.
I've seen a lot of schools say they simply do not take transfer classes from other PT programs (and that is from other DPT programs in the U.S.). Or that they will possibly admit a transfer student and then decide after admission if any of the classes may qualify for equivalence. It's very program specific, so your best bet is researching the specific schools you might be interested in, and also contacting them directly.
Even though you completed 2 out of 4 years of your program in Turkey, I suspect you would still have a minimum of 3 years of additional study here to complete a DPT if you can get accepted. And possibly 5-7 years if you don't currently hold a bachelors and need to complete that.
Sorry not to paint a rosier picture!
Good luck!

 

[Svfina]

What school are you attending in Turkey? From what I know, the academic requirement to become a PT in Turkey is a bachelors degree in Physical Therapy. Is this correct? You have a couple of options if this is true. 1.) You can transfer to an undergraduate college in the US, finish us your Bachelors and then apply to a DPT program in the US. 2.) You can finish your Bachelors in Turkey (which shouldn't take long since you already have 110 credits), get licensed in Turkey, practice for a year and apply to a post-professional DPT program. NYU has a post-professional program, it's certainly not inexpensive though. Here's the website: http://steinhardt.nyu.edu/pt/dpt/pt. If you look around you'll be able to find more schools that offer post-professional or transitional DPT degrees.

Hopefully your girlfriend will hang around for a little longer. I'm not sure if I would want to live in Turkey permanently, but I wouldn't mind spending a small portion of my life there. My husband is Turkish, so I may even have the chance to in the future! İyi Şanslar!

 

[agreeta]

What school are you attending in Turkey? From what I know, the academic requirement to become a PT in Turkey is a bachelors degree in Physical Therapy. Is this correct? You have a couple of options if this is true. 1.) You can transfer to an undergraduate college in the US, finish us your Bachelors and then apply to a DPT program in the US. 2.) You can finish your Bachelors in Turkey (which shouldn't take long since you already have 110 credits), get licensed in Turkey, practice for a year and apply to a post-professional DPT program. NYU has a post-professional program, it's certainly not inexpensive though. Here's the website: http://steinhardt.nyu.edu/pt/dpt/pt. If you look around you'll be able to find more schools that offer post-professional or transitional DPT degrees.

Hopefully your girlfriend will hang around for a little longer. I'm not sure if I would want to live in Turkey permanently, but I wouldn't mind spending a small portion of my life there. My husband is Turkish, so I may even have the chance to in the future! İyi Şanslar!

Wow that was the specific answer! I am attending Dokuz Eylul University in Turkey. and yes the academic requirement to become a PT in Turkey is a bachelors degree. I just recognize that i need Doctors or masters degree in US. I took 110 credits but i need 80 credits to be done. That means i need 2 more years to be graduated.

I just wonder if i can transfer my credits to pre-physical therapy program in US how many year will i need to have bacholars degree? if it is less than 2 years, would it be logical to transfer my credits and get bacholars degree? and if i am graduated from pre-physical therapy program, would it help me to find a work while i am studying DPT? or it is just nothing by itself..

I even thing to transfer my credits to PTA program and I called Pierce Community Collage and they said it is possible but after you transfer your credits what alse we can teach you?! And it is not logical..

I dont know what to do.. even i get my bacholars degree and become PT in Turkey, i guess if i want to be a PT in US i need a MS DS degree.. poff!