Final Transcripts Guidelines

For your transcript to be final and official, it must:

1. Include all your courses taken, grades earned, the name of the degree earned, and the date of graduation/conferral

2. Be sent to us by your university directly. Transcripts submitted by you, the student, are NOT official. Your university can send your transcript to us one of 3 ways:

1. By mail, to our mailing address: 726 Broadway, 2nd Floor New York, NY 10003
2. Through a secure online sending service, like Parchment, National Student Clearinghouse, My eQuals, CSSD, etc.
3. By email, from an administrator email address affiliated with the university, to tisch.gradadmissions@nyu.edu

If you uploaded a transcript to your application, it is not considered official, even if you accessed it through your university's official sending method. Any transcripts that we receive from you, the student, are NOT considered official. Transcripts must be sent to us by your issuing university directly to be considered official.

If you sent us your transcript officially during the application process (e.g. through Parchment, National Student Clearinghouse, or from an administrator at your university directly), then this fulfills the final, official transcript requirement-- but transcripts MUST list the name of the degree earned and the graduation date to be considered final.

Visit your application status page. Checklist items for final, official trancripts for every institution that you listed that you earned a degree from have been added to your application checklist, and they will be checked off as fulfilled once we've received and processed your transcripts.

If your transcript doesn't list the name of the degree earned (e.g. Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Design, etc), then please ask your issuing institution to include a document that includes this information, like a degree certificate or diploma supplement. We must receive documentation of your degree name and graduation date to fulfill the final transcript requirement.

If your transcript is not originally in English, we must receive a copy of the transcript in its original language and an English translation. To secure an English translation, we recommend:

1. Ask your issuing institution if they can provide an English translation. Many institutions can provide separate English translations of transcripts, or versions of transcripts with text listed in both languages.
2. Send your transcript to a certified translator. A certified translator can translate your documents to English and send both the original transcript and the English translation to our office. We must receive the translation from the translator directly: we cannot accept documents from students as official. You can use any certified translator: the translator does not have to be based in the US. You or a friend/family member who does not work as a certified translator cannot provide the translation.
3. Receive a translation from a NACES member. Credential evaluation companies like WES, ECE, and IEE can provide translation-only services for transcripts not originally in English.

If you earned a degree from NYU, you do not need to send us a final, official transcript. Our office can access your transcript internally. If you earned another degree from an institution outside NYU, please have this institution send us your final, official transcript for this program.

If your issuing institution will be delayed in sending your final transcript to us before the deadline, please reach out to our office at tisch.gradadmissions@nyu.edu. In your email, please explain the reason for the delay, and the anticipated date that we will receive your final transcript.