Request a Transcript or Enrollment Certification

• Credit and Noncredit Courses completed
• Final course grade notations, Interim grades (if applicable)
• Course withdrawals and WD notations
• Disciplinary notations (if applicable)
• Certificates earned (if applicable)

*For more information on final grades, including non-completion course notations, please see Grades.

**Harvard Division of Continuing Education Professional & Executive Development programs do not appear on transcripts.

Degree candidates, Premedical Participants, and Program Alumni

• Degree and Program of Study
• Program of Study GPA
• Admission Date
• Degree Status
• Degree Conferral Date (if applicable)
• Thesis Titles (if applicable)
• Degree Awards (if applicable)

• Secure Electronic PDF/eTranscript
• USPS mail (additional fees apply)
• FedEx (additional fees apply)

All transcript requests will include a Parchment processing fee of $3.00. Requests that are cancelled before release will have the Parchment fee refunded.

When sending an eTranscript, the recipient will receive an email from Parchment when the transcript is available to download. Recipients should be advised the email will be sent from noreply@mail.parchment.com and will have the subject line “You’ve received a document” so the delivery is not overlooked.

Recipients have 30 calendar days to access the transcript using the secure download link, eTranscript orders are considered complete once available to the recipient. If not downloaded within the 30-day period, students will be required to order another eTranscript to be sent to the recipient.

1. Login to MyDCE and navigate to “My Academic History”
2. Select “Request a Transcript” to navigate securely to Parchment.
3. If this is your first time in Parchment, provide contact information for your Parchment account, then confirm to go to Parchment Home.

To place an official transcript request in the Parchment Storefront:

1. Enter your destination in the search field or select “send to yourself, someone else, or a third party.”
2. Enter the recipient information for the transcript request and upload any additional documents to include with the transcript delivery.
3. Review the request details, then sign and consent to the transcript release.
4. Review your order summary, add another transcript request and upload any additional documents to include with the transcript delivery.
5. Confirm the details of your order including recipient, recipient address (email or mail) and payment information.
6. Submit the transcript request.

You will receive confirmation when the transcript request is submitted and throughout the order process. Track a pending request by returning to the Parchment storefront and selecting “Order Status” from the menu options.

Once your request is processed and submitted to the recipient, you will see the status change and receive an email notification. E-Transcripts can be accessed by the recipient for 30 days from the date it becomes available. If the recipient does not access the transcript during that time, the request is considered complete and fulfilled. You will have to place a new request if the e-Transcript is not accessed by the recipient in the allotted time.

The $3.00 transcript processing fee will be charged by the Parchment storefront only after the official transcript is delivered. You will see a hold on your credit card while the request is being processed. Requests that are not processed within 30 days or a request that is cancelled by the student before it is available to the recipient will not be charged the processing fee. The most likely reason a transcript is not processed within 2-4 business days is due to a transcript impacting hold.

Alumni or previous course takers who do not have a HarvardKey or DCEKey and do not have access to the MyDCE student portal may still request an official transcript directly through the Parchment storefront. Note – students that can access the transcript portal through MyDCE must do so.

Students without a HarvardKey or DCEKey can navigate directly to the Parchment Storefront and create a Parchment account for access to request their Harvard Division of Continuing Education transcript:

1. Go directly to the Harvard DCE Parchment Homepage.
2. Select “I need to order my own credentials” and continue.
3. Follow the instructions on the Harvard DCE Parchment storefront home page to “create account.”
4. If this is your first time in Parchment, provide the requested information to create the Parchment Account directly.
5. Once a Parchment account is created, students without a HarvardKey can return and use the “returning users” to login directly to their Parchment account.

Alumni or previous course-takers without a HarvardKey will only need to create one Parchment account.

A certification or legalization is generally needed for US documents that leave the United States for recognition in the country of intended use. International students and US students living, working, and studying outside the United States may need to have their transcripts and diplomas authenticated by a designated federal authority. This authentication takes the form of a certification called an apostille as approved by the 1961 Hague Convention.

To obtain the apostille, submit a request for a notarized copy of your transcript to the Academic Services Office at AcademicServices@Extension.Harvard.edu. The notarized copy is issued to you in a signed, sealed envelope. Submit the notarized document to the Commissions Section, Room 1719, McCormack Building, 1 Ashburton Place, Boston, MA 02108 for certification and the apostille. Or mail the necessary documentation to the above address. For more information about the documents and information needed, as well as fees for each certification and apostille, see Certifications and Apostilles on the Secretary of the Commonwealth website.

The Extension School does not notarize diplomas. Instead, the Academic Services Office writes a letter verifying the degree and includes the following information in the letter as appropriate: the student’s name; degree, certificate, or diploma received; date of receipt; area of concentration; field of study; honors. The letter is signed by the associate registrar for Academic Services or the assistant registrar for Academic Services.