No. We do not make photocopies of official documents. We consider documents to be official if they are sent to us directly by the issuing institution and arrive in our office in a sealed envelope. If you were provisionally admitted, you must provide official certified, or attested copies of all marksheets, graduation certificates, diplomas or degree certificates needed to fufill the provision of your admission. We strongly reccomend that you obtain copies of the needed documents before leaving your country. If you are provisional for a U.S. final degree granting transcript, or other transcript from a US school, simply order a transcript to be sent to us directly from your Registrar's Office.

Documents given to the Graduate Admissions Office become our property and may not be returned or forwarded.

No. We do not accept faxed or electronically delivered transcripts to be official. Please order official transcripts to be sent to us directly from the Registrar's Office of your current institution, directly to the Graduate Admissions Office and the Graduate Program to which you are applying.

No. Some University Registrar Offices offer to send your official transcript electronically as an attachment to a designated recipient. The Ohio State University Graduate Admissions does not consider such transcripts to be official. Without exception, we require that you order "physical" transcripts to be mailed directly to the Graduate Admissions Office directly from the Registrar of your former or current University. Remember to send transcripts from each and every post secondary institution that you attended. Including Universities attended during high school, study abroad work, and transcripts previously submitted to Ohio State University as part of an freshman or undergraduate application.

Yes. If you received University credit for classes you took in High school, you must submit transcripts documenting that work.

Yes. If you sent transcripts to The Ohio State University as part of an undergraduate application, those transcripts should be re-ordered and mailed to Graduate Admissions. One transcript should be mailed to Graduate Admissions and another transcript must be mailed to your prospective graduate program.

We require official transcripts from all post secondary institutions that you attended. This includes universities attended during high school or a study abroad program.

Coursework from one institution reported as transfer credit on another school's transcript does not meet Ohio State's requirement as an official transcript.