Submitting Transcripts
When You Apply: Upload a Copy of the Official Transcript to ApplyWeb
- All applicants must upload a copy, front and back, of their official transcript/academic record issued by the Registrar or Records Office to the applicant, to ApplyWeb for each bachelor’s, master’s, professional, or doctoral degree earned or in progress. The copy of the official transcript is used for initial review by the graduate program faculty.
- A downloaded transcript from your school portal or system is an unofficial transcript and not acceptable for review.
- If you are attending or have graduated from a Non-U.S. institution, review the Required Academic Credentials from Non-U.S. Institutions for requirements by country.
- If you have community or junior college, non-degree, or study abroad coursework, indicate this information in your curriculum vitae (CV) or resume. Do not submit any transcripts from a community or junior college, non-degree, or study abroad coursework to the Rackham Graduate School.
- Applicants will not upload non-degree work unless the program of application requires it under the program specific information cont’d page on the ApplyWeb application.
Once You Are Offered Admission: Submit the Official Transcript
After an offer of admission is made, an official transcript sent directly from the registrar’s office must be submitted to Rackham.
- Submit an official transcript/academic record, front and back, issued by the Registrar or Records Office for each bachelor’s, master’s, professional, or doctoral degree earned. Attachments from students are not official.
- Submit only official transcripts/academic records. These bear the issuing institution’s seal and the official signature of the Registrar or Recorder of Records.
- U-M Ann Arbor Applicants (Current or Previous Students): Do not submit your U-M Ann Arbor transcript. Rackham will obtain your U-M Ann Arbor transcript internally. Submit only degree transcripts from other institutions you attended including U-M Dearborn or U-M Flint.
Submitting the Official Transcript/Diploma/Academic Record to Rackham
Submit an e-transcript or paper transcript
- E-transcripts are strongly preferred. Do not submit the same transcript both electronically and by paper.
Submit Electronically
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 racketranscripts@umich.edu 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.
- 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.
- 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.”
- 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.