Why if I have an American college degree that it may not be enough to work with that qualifications in the UK? Me and my friend are curious he has an internal medicine focus and I have a forensic medical analysis focus.
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No degree from any college anywhere legally entitles you to anything, anywhere. The decision by companies and organizations to respect degrees as evidence of qualification is a voluntary one, and any company or organization can decide that any degree or any degree from some college simply doesn’t matter to them.
What typically happens, is companies and organizations will respect degrees from colleges that have some level of renown (regardless of location), are local or regional to them, or at least aren’t in disrepute.
So if you have a degree from some community college in some random American county, it might very well be possible that an employer in the UK, who has no understanding of the American college system, might disregard that as evidence of your qualifications.
EDIT: All that said, degrees from US institutions generally find wide acceptance outside the US.
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