Submit the Official Final Transcript

Request the Registrar (or Recorder of Records) send an electronic transcript and Transcripts/Academic Records Submission Form, an optional form that aids in matching.

• Have your institution send the secure electronic documents directly to [email protected] from an institutional portal or from a publicly verifiable email address of the institution.
• If it is not possible to include the Transcripts/Academic Records Submission Form, do not mail or submit separately. Documents not emailed by the Registrar (or Recorder of Records) are not official and will not be accepted.

National Student Clearing House

If your institution uses National Student Clearing House as their electronic transcript vendor, select “Electronic Transcript Exchange” as the delivery method if that is an option.

Parchment

If your institution uses Parchment as their electronic transcript vendor, select “An Academic Organization, Admissions Office, Business, or Other Organization” and search for “University of Michigan Rackham Graduate School.” Do not select “Yourself or Another Individual.”

Certifile Transcript Submission

Admitted students have the option (not mandatory) to use Certifile transcript submission through their ApplyWeb account. ApplyWeb has partnered with Educational Perspectives (EP), MyCreds/MesCertif, My eQuals, and Digitary Core to verify, evaluate, and deliver your official credentials electronically to our office.

Benefits of Using Electronic Submission

• Your credential elevations or verifications will be submitted directly to the Rackham Graduate School.
• You only need to request one set for all Rackham applications if applying to more than one program.

If an e-transcript option is not available, submit paper documents in the envelope sealed and/or stamped by the institution issuing the educational documents and the Transcripts/Academic Records Submission Form.

Mail the documents to:

Rackham Graduate School
Attn: Transcripts/UMID: or Transcripts/Date of Birth (mm/dd/yyyy)
915 East Washington Street
Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-1070
USA

The Transcripts/Academic Records Submission Form is optional but it is a helpful aid in matching your documents to your record.

If you are on campus and prefer to deliver them in person to Rackham, you may place your educational documents in the secure drop box, located in front of Rackham on East Washington Street. Put them in a sealed envelope and include your name, U-M ID, name of program, and term of anticipated graduation. Documents placed in the drop box will not be returned.

Or

Students may drop off their educational documents in-person in the Admissions Office Monday through Friday from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. and 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. Students can come to the Student Services office located on the lower level of the Rackham Graduate School, 915 East Washington Street, Suite 0120.

Students requiring their original documents returned to them need to make complete copies of the original documents, front and back. The original document and the copy must be brought to the office together. Our staff will compare the two documents and return the original. For convenience, there is a copier available for student use in the Student Services office. Students, faculty, and staff receive an allocation for each term to print at Sites locations and are charged for additional printing .

If you are applying to graduate this semester, the transcript/academic record must be received by Rackham before a degree will be awarded or further degree progress can be made.

Original educational documents will not be returned. All documentation received becomes the property of the University of Michigan and will not be returned.

An official transcript/academic record must be:

• An original or an attested copy with an original institutional seal and signature of the Registrar.
• The attested copy should be issued and signed or stamped by the same office that issues original documents from the degree granting institution. An apostille certification is not necessary. Notarized copies are not acceptable.

• A “true” copy prepared and signed by a faculty member, city or government official, or notary public is not considered official.
• An evaluation provided by a credential service, for example Educational Credentials Evaluators (ECE) or World Education Services (WES), is not accepted by Rackham. Exception: the Rackham Graduate School will accept electronic evaluations from Educational Perspectives (EP).
• Documents emailed to our office by anyone that is not a Registrar (Recorder of Records) or equivalent.

Submit only official transcripts. These bear the issuing institution’s seal and the official signature of the Registrar (or Recorder of Records).

For those enrolled in degree study at the time of application, submit only the most recent in-progress transcript for that degree.

Which document formats are not accepted by Rackham?

• A scanned copy of an official transcript (only allowed for the upload on ApplyWeb -Step 1).
• Academic records printed from your school’s website.
• A paper transcript that is not sealed in the institution’s envelope.
• An evaluation provided by a credential service, for example, Educational Credentials Evaluators (ECE) or World Education Services (WES). Exception: the Rackham Graduate School will accept electronic evaluations from Educational Perspectives (EP).
• A “true” copy prepared and signed by a faculty member, city or government official, or notary public.