Transcripts, certificates and verifications

Your transcript lists the modules taken, credit value and grades achieved during your studies. It's an official document containing a full record of your confirmed academic results and can be used for third party verification purposes. An official transcripts is provided digitally when you graduate.

Your interim transcript lists the modules taken, credit value and grades achieved during your studies. Official copies of your interim transcript are available to undergraduate students and contain results that have been validated by an Examination Board. Provisional results won't appear so you should contact your School/Department for confirmation of these if needed.

The award certificate details:

• the degree or award obtained (for example a Bachelor of Science);
• programme of study (your course subject);
• the overall result obtained (classification);
• the date of the University award.

It's printed on official parchment paper containing watermarks and other security features.

A Confirmation of Award letter is an official letter that can be used as proof that your award was granted by The University of Manchester, so becomes available once your results have been approved and released. 

Throughout the year, letters will be provided automatically within at least a month of you completing your degree. From May to July, your letter will automatically be provided before graduation. If you need a copy, you can email: ssc@manchester.ac.uk.

Former graduates (including from affiliated institutions) can also request a letter by emailing: ssc@manchester.ac.uk.

A DOATAP Confirmation of Award is a version of the letter that confirms you carried out your studies as an internal student at The University of Manchester.

It is available to alumni students who are applying to the Greek DOATAP authorities to have their award validated.  DOATAP is responsible for the recognition of university degrees awarded by foreign Higher Education Institutions.

Please note, that due to the Covid-19 outbreak, The University of Manchester is currently unable to provide postal provision of transcripts or original copies of the DOATAP Confirmation of Award letter directly to DOATAP.

If you have a Digitary Core account please share your digital official transcript with DOATAP. The DOATAP Confirmation of Award letter can only be provided in PDF/electronic format. You can request a letter by emailing: ssc@manchester.ac.uk.

Digitary Certified Online Record Exchange (DIGITARY CORE) is our secure cloud platform that helps learners around the world access and share their digitally signed academic documents online with employers, education providers, governments and other third parties.

The platform (previously called eDocs Digitary) provides digital access to your transcript and Higher Education Achievement Report (HEAR). Transcripts are available from the day of your graduation ceremony and HEARs are usually available from the end of the month following your graduation ceremony.

This service and access is free of charge.

Using Digitary CORE

With Digitary CORE, you can:

• access your digitally certified academic records online;
• securely share your records with third parties, quickly and easily.
• if you graduated from 2009 to 2018 and have a classic eDocs Digitary account, migrate your documents to a new Digitary Core account;
• if you graduated from 2019 onwards and have a Digitary Core account, sign in to Digitary online;
• if you have forgotten your login details you can reset your password online;
• if you don’t already have either an eDocs Digitary or Digitary Core account, contact the Student Services Centre (SSC) by emailing ssc@manchester.ac.uk. Please be sure you don’t already have an account before contacting the SSC.

The Digitary Core service is not available if you completed any of the following courses:

For further information and guidance please visit Digitary Core. 

This system was developed by Graduate Prospects (Jisc) in consultation with universities, employers and screening agencies. Funded by the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) and launched by Graduate Prospects, HEDD is now rolled out to institutions throughout the UK.  

The service allows registered enquirers to input data provided by applicants, including their name, date of birth, institution, year of graduation, and qualification classification, and the service checks this information in real time against an encrypted dataset from our student records to verify if there's a match.

You'll be charged £12 per enquiry. 

To make an enquiry, you need to register on the HEDD website. Select 'The University of Manchester' from the list of UK higher education institutions and choose the option to 'verify a degree award'. 

You'll be charged £12 per enquiry. 

You’ll need the individual’s name, date of birth, course and qualification. For graduates, you'll also need their year of graduation and degree result. 

We recommend that you ask to see the degree certificate if there is one and use that as the basis of your verification enquiry, or ask individuals to give you their data as they believe it’s recorded in the student records system. That way you have a better chance of getting an automatic verification.

If you don’t get an automatic verification, the enquiry will go to our team for manual verification, with a five working-day turnaround time. 

All your enquiries are stored in the system and can be exported as an MS Excel or CSV file. You can sort your enquiries according to status:

• automatically verified;
• pending – this means we couldn’t automatically verify your enquiry and you’re waiting for a response from us;
• not verified – where we have responded in the negative;
• partially verified – where we have verified some but not all of the data, for example: the wrong year of graduation has been submitted. 

If you have any problems or queries, email heddhelp@prospects.ac.uk (include your phone number if you would like a call back).