Timeline for Do some universities not give paper diplomas to their PhD graduates?
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| Sep 12, 2018 at 7:13 | comment | added | user71659 | There's another document that is typically sent called a official verification, which is prepared exactly like an official transcript but only lists attendance dates, degrees and optionally GPA. | |
| Sep 11, 2018 at 18:20 | vote | accept | CommunityBot | ||
| Sep 11, 2018 at 18:03 | comment | added | Nate Eldredge | @user97917: Yes, it's very different. As another personal example, my undergraduate diploma had my name misspelled. It took me a year to get a corrected one, because the college prints diplomas as a special job which they only do once a year. If I'd lost it, I would similarly have had to wait a year for a replacement. | |
| Sep 11, 2018 at 17:54 | comment | added | Azor Ahai -him- | @user97917 Americans would not think to hold on to their physical diploma to apply to schools in Europe because the fact that European schools want to see your literal diploma is not a well-known fact. Lots of people do care about the physical diploma, others don't. You can usually order another diploma if you want, but it's much more expensive than ordering an official transcript ($70 vs $10) | |
| Sep 11, 2018 at 17:13 | comment | added | user97917 | @JeffE: So you want to say there is no way to obtain an official copy? Do you (or anyone else) know the reason of Berkeley's policy on that? Surely people working in other countries where administrators are not flexible enough to ask Berkeley for a copy have a huge problem with this? | |
| Sep 11, 2018 at 17:12 | comment | added | user97917 | Thank you for the answer! So people from the US do generally really not care about owning the official document? Wouldn't it be good to have one just in case the university does not exist in the future or if you need one because you apply in a different country? (The US culture must be really different from my European culture, where it is even recommended to keep all high school certificate the whole life!) | |
| Sep 11, 2018 at 16:53 | comment | added | JeffE | JeffE may have overstated the case when he said this was the only way to prove it — No, I don't think I overstated the case at all. | |
| Sep 11, 2018 at 11:33 | comment | added | Dan Fox | US universities also emit certified notarized letters attesting the degrees obtained by a person. As for certified transcripts, these can be legalized with an Apostille for use in another country. In either case there is no need to have the document sent to a third party; tampering with a legalized document it is a felony in most jurisdictions. For what it is worth, an official diploma can also be legalized in this way and does have legal validity in some cases. (None of these documents have meaningful anti-forgery security features unless they are digitically signed ...) | |
| Sep 10, 2018 at 21:49 | history | answered | Nate Eldredge | CC BY-SA 4.0 |