Your application for admission is not complete until we have received all official secondary school records, all official university or college records showing yearly subjects and marks, appropriate
test scores, and
financial documentation (F1 visa applicants only).
To ensure that a decision on your application is not delayed, please note the following:
- All records submitted must be official, original documents or certified true copies. We do not return credentials, so we strongly suggest you send certified true copies of documents that are not replaceable. A certified true copy is a photocopy of the original document, to which an educational or consular official has affixed his/her signature and/or official seal indicating that this is an attested--or certified true copy--of the original document.
- Notarized documents are not acceptable. If you have official copies of your foreign transcripts in your possession and will be in our area, please bring them to our office (Camden, Newark, or New Brunswick) along with photocopies. An admissions representative will be able to certify your copies as true copies of the originals. We will not make copies of your originals.
- We cannot render an admissions decision until the results of your graduation certificate/diploma examinations are received.
- Your credentials must specify exactly which subjects you studied and for how long. If they do not, you must supply this information with your application.
- Documents not in English must be accompanied by a translation verified by a language professor or professional translator, and must arrive on the professional letterhead of the translator.
- A credit evaluation from an evaluation service does not determine which credits will transfer to the university. After you have been admitted and accepted our offer of admission, your credentials will be evaluated by Rutgers University for transfer credit. The results of this evaluation may vary from that provided by an evaluation service. A transcript evaluation done by an evaluation service does not serve as an official school record.
- Although an evaluation service may have seen your original documents, you must submit them to Rutgers for evaluation by the university.
To view academic documentation by country, visit
Country Guide for Academic Credentials.
Do not send the following:
- Transcripts for work completed before grade nine
- Sport certificates
- Craft certificates