The results of your studies are recorded as official academic documents: graduation certificates (parchments or degree certificates) and transcripts. These are official proof of your qualification.
My eQuals is a secure online academic document verification platform that serves more than 50 education providers across New Zealand and Australia including all the major universities. More than 5.7 million documents have been issued on the platform and there are more than 1.6 million students and graduates registered.
You can use your My eQuals account to share your academic results online. You choose who to share your documents with, and for how long.
After you graduate – or if you ask the Graduation team for a transcript before you graduate – you’ll get an email from My eQuals containing a link to register your My eQuals account.
The email will be sent to the email address you provided in your Arion account – you should log in to check the email address stored in your Arion account is still valid.
You can find out more about My eQuals and how to use it on the official website.
A parchment is your official qualification document, and you get it for free when you graduate.
You can receive your parchment:
A digital version of the parchment can be issued to My eQuals for any qualification granted from 2012 onwards. For qualifications issued before 2012, you can request a digital academic transcript instead which will have confirmation of all qualifications granted. The transcript includes the name of the qualification, grant date, any major(s) and minor(s) if applicable.
If you graduated after 2017, you already have access to your digital parchment after the qualification was granted. You would have received an email from My eQuals when this was issued to you.
If you graduated between 2012 and 2016 and require a digital version, email the graduation team to request your digital certificate to be released to My eQuals.
The parchment is an official legal document. You can't order additional copies of a parchment. Uncollected parchments will be destroyed after four years.
If you lose, damage or want a destroyed parchment reissued, email the graduation team
There is a fee for the parchment to be reprinted or reissued and this can take up to 6 weeks to be completed and dispatched by courier.
Replacements are only available for:
* Any trade, advanced trade certificate qualifications, New Zealand Certificates (NZC) including New Zealand Certificates in Engineering (NZCE) and New Zealand Diplomas (NZD), National Certificate and Diploma qualifications studied under our precursor Auckland Institute of Technology (AIT) or Auckland Technical Institute (ATI) need to be requested from NZQA.
An academic transcript is the formal and complete record of the results you have gained while studying at AUT. Since July 2017, AUT has only issued transcripts digitally, using the My eQuals digital service. This means you can access and securely share your transcript online.
All transcripts include:
If you graduated after 2017, you already have free access to your digital transcript after the qualification was granted. You would have received an email from My eQuals when this was issued to you.
If you graduated before 2017 you would have received a paper academic transcript. If you require another copy, these can be issued digitally through My eQuals.
Transcript fees:
You can request your academic transcript to be issued to you by emailing the graduation team. Include your student ID number, full name and date of birth in your request.
We have limited academic records for courses delivered before 1994 by the precursor institutions Auckland Technical Institute (ATI) and Auckland Institute of Technology (AIT) as these relate to a period of study prior to the centralised and digital recording of a student’s progress.
In certain instances, we may be able to issue a digital legacy transcript from this period, which is a verified scanned copy of the academic record as issued after the successful completion of studies by ATI or AIT through My eQuals.
Transcripts for any trade, advanced trade certificate qualifications, New Zealand Certificates (NZC) including New Zealand Certificates in Engineering (NZCE) and New Zealand Diplomas (NZD), National Certificate and Diploma qualifications studied under ATI or AIT need to be requested from NZQA.
You can get access to your digital transcript at any time before you graduate – contact the Graduation team to ask for it to be released to My eQuals.
Your transcript will:
Once you have requested your transcript for the first time, for the duration that you're continuously enrolled in your programme, your transcript will be automatically updated with any further confirmed results from subsequent semesters and released to My eQuals at no extra cost.
You don't need to request your transcript to be updated at the end of every semester. You will an email from My eQuals whenever the transcript has been updated.
For enquiries about academic transcripts email graduation@aut.ac.nz