Graduate Application Transcript Requirements

It is important to read and work through the following transcript details:

• Official transcripts from U.S. and Canadian institutions are needed from each institution unless you accumulated less than 15 credits. Please request the registrar's office, at each institution, to send one official transcript directly to the School of Graduate Studies.
  
  
• SCSU transcripts and those from MnSCU institutions do not need to be requested, SCSU can obtain your transcript directly. However, if credits from institutions outside MnSCU were used toward your undergraduate degree, those transcripts should be sent directly by the granting institution.
  
  
  INTERNATIONAL TRANSCRIPT EVALUATION REQUIREMENT
  
  
• Applicants who have been awarded a bachelor's and or graduate degree from an international higher education institution (recognized by the country's Education Ministry) need to submit a NACES evaluation preferably completed by the WES organization.
  
  
• A NACES-affiliated transcript evaluation, preferably completed by the WES organization is required of applicants who have studied outside of the United States or Canada. Your undergraduate, graduate and doctoral transcripts from non-USA or non-Canadian education institutions must be sent to WES by the issuing institution. Official transcripts need to be submitted from each institution unless you accumulated less than 15 credits.
  
  
• This process is as important as completing the admission application. An applicant's international credentials will not be reviewed for admission consideration until a transcript evaluation is completed.
  
  
• If you have a graduate degree from a United States or Canadian accredited institution, a course-by-course transcript evaluation of your international undergraduate work may not be necessary. Please confer with the Director of Graduate Admissions.
  
  
• You can apply for a transcript evaluation on the WES web site, and should select the course-by-course evaluation. Please make sure that St. Cloud State University is listed as one of the recipients of the WES evaluation. Once all required documentation has been received by WES, the evaluation usually takes 7 to 10 days to complete.
  
  
• If you request an international transcript evaluation before your last term's grades are posted it is NOT necessary, after completing your last term, to have a revision evaluation completed by WES or a NACES organization. The School of Graduate Studies at St. Cloud State University does NOT require this additional revision service. Some applicants may still elect to have their last semester of grades evaluated by WES for future employment or educational purposes. The cost is $80.
  
  
• You are requested to send the School of Graduate Studies an attested copy of your last term marks/grades and diploma if it is not included in your transcript evaluation.. At the time of enrollment at SCSU, all grades must be recorded on your official transcript and the appropriate degree must be conferred and posted. If the appropriate degree is not conferred, you will not be allowed to commence coursework.
  
  
  
  EXCEPTIONS TO THE INTERNATIONAL TRANSCRIPT EVALUATION REQUIREMENT
• If you have a graduate degree from a United States or Canadian accredited institution, a course-by-course transcript evaluation of your international undergraduate work may not be necessary. Please confer with the Director of Graduate Admissions.
  
  
• If you are a sponsored scholar with the Fulbright, AMIDEAST Fulbright or Muskie/IREX programs.
  
  
• If you are a graduate from an engineering program at Jawaharlal Nehru Tech University, Osmania University or Tribhuvan University and are applying to our MEM program, please send your translated, notarized transcript directly to SCSU. It is NOT necessary to secure an evaluation from WES or another NACES member. A transcript evaluation will be needed if you studied outside of engineering at these universities or if you wish consideration for a SCSU program other than MEM.
  
  
• If you have an international transcript from the following SCSU Partner Institutions, the transcript can be sent directly to SCSU. It is NOT necessary to secure an evaluation from WES or another NACES member.
  
  

  AUSTRALIA Southern Cross University CHILE University of Concepcion CHINA Nankai University, Binhai College Shaanxi Normal University Shanghai University of Engineering Science (SUES) Tianjin Finance & Economics Tianjin Foreign Studies University Xi'an University of Technology DAKAR Suffolk University GERMANY Fachhoschschule Ingolstadt Katholische University Eichstatt   JAPAN Akita National University Akita International University Seinan Gakuin University University of Daito Bunka

  MALAYSIA HELP University College INTI International University Nilai University College Taylor's University College   THE NETHERLANDS VU University SOUTH AFRICA Nelson Mandala Metropolitan University SOUTH KOREA Catholic University of Korea Gyeongin National University of Education Korea University Woosuk University Woosong University Yonsei University   SPAIN Suffolk University