Certificates & Transcripts

1.  Replacement (Duplicate) Certificate or Letter of Confirmation

Replacement Certificate – this is a duplicate of the certificate you were awarded following graduation which details your full name, title of your course of study, and the final grade you were awarded at graduation. N.B.  The University charges £30 UK Sterling for replacement certificates. 

Letter of Confirmation – this is a formal letter detailing your name, course title and date of your award. The actual final grade of your award is stated. N.B.  There is no charge for this service.

To obtain either document, you will need to complete an official application form, which you can download from this page. 

 

University graduates

download University Certificate form and return with payment to the address on the form. In case of any query contact Northumbria University Academic Registry on +44 (0)191 227 4600 or email rg.certificates@northumbria.ac.uk

 

Pre-1992 graduates

The old Newcastle Polytechnic ceased to exist in 1992 when it became Northumbria University. This change in status came through the Further and Higher Education Act 1992 which abolished the Council for National Academic Awards (CNAA) which was responsible for awarding degrees from the Polytechnic.

Certificates

The Open University are now responsible for the care and custody of CNAA records for the purposes of authenticating original award documents or copies of them and providing verification of entries download pre-1992 application form. Records for our CNAA validated degrees from this time are now held by the Open University.

CNAA Aftercare Service
Open University Validation Services
The Open University
Walton Hall
Milton Keynes
MK7 6AA
Email: ouvs-aftercare@open.ac.uk
Tel: +44 (0)1908 332851
Tel: +44 (0)1908 332852
Fax: +44 (0)1908 332841

 

 

For HNCs / HNDs

Contact Edexcel by telephone on +44 (0870) 2409800

2. If you never received your original Certificate

All Certificates are sent out shortly after graduation. If you did not receive yours it is probably because the address the University had for you at that time was out-of-date. Your certificate will have been returned to the University and will still be on our files. In such cases, there is no charge for original certificates.

Contact Northumbria University Academic Registry on +44 (0)191 227 4600 or email rg.certificates@northumbria.ac.uk, with your name and family name (whilst at Northumbria), your date of birth, subject of study and graduation year plus your current address, email and telephone details. 
 

3. Transcripts

A document detailing the list of subjects you studied during any part of your course, is called a Transcript and is issued by the University's Academic Registry.

Northumbria University does not hold transcripts for students who attended during our Newcastle Polytechnic era as they were not administered by the University. Regrettably, we are unable to produce transcripts for this period.  Similarly, transcripts for this period are unavailable from the Open University.  

For more details on replacement transcripts and payment options please visit the relevant Academic Registry web page.

Please note, Academic Registry charge £25 for a replacement of the official transcript.  

FOR YOUR INFORMATION
Please allow plenty of time for your transcript and certificate requests to be processed. Whilst every effort is made to deal with your request as promptly as possible, the University is unable to guarantee processing them to specific deadlines.