How do you confirm if someone has a college degree?

Question

Aside from seeing the certificate in a frame, can you confirm a college degree? Can you call the college and ask them for confermation? Do you need to know the persons s.s.n.?

Answer 1

Even a certificate in a frame is not adequate proof of a college degree. Due to federal privacy laws, you can not just call a college or university to obtain information about a student or former student's grades, degrees or other records. The end all and be all of proof of a degree is an official transcript. The official transcript must be requested by the former student in writing or in person. There are two types of Transcripts official and unofficial. The official ones are sent via sealed envelope by the college.

Answer 2

There are several ways to confirm whether an individuals degree is genuine or fake. First of all, you will need the following:

The person's name as it appears on the document.

The year of graduation

The type of degree awarded (i.e. B.A./B.S., etc.)

The major (i.e. History, English, etc.

Contact the registrar's office from this institution and confirm the above. If this checks out, then it is more than likely a valid degree. If you still feel that the person in question has somehow "stolen" someones identification and credentials then there is another step that you make take. You may physically go the school's library. Within the most college libraries there is a section of archived books and other materials to include old yearbooks. Look up the class from the year that the degree was awarded and locate their photograph. If it is not contained within this year, then start working "backwards" to years prior to the graduation year.

Naturally if this all checks out, the person's degree is beyond a reasonable doubt, valid.

You may also locate their name within the alumni directory however, if there is a case of identity theft/fraud, this may not lead you anywhere.

All of this can be conducted without having the subject's social security number or their date of birth.

Answer 3

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Answer 4

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How do you confirm if someone has a college degree?
Aside from seeing the certificate in a frame, can you confirm a college degree? Can you call the college and ask them for confermation? Do you need to know the persons s.s.n.?

Answer 5

To confirm if someone has a college degree is easy since all colleges and universities keep records of its graduates. The information is archived and easily accessible. Therefore it is not wise to claim you have graduated from Harvard, Princeton, if you didn't because if an employer, for example, wants to verify it, all he/she needs to do is contact a staff member in charge of records at that institution.

You can also check online at http://www.unicheckonline.com/graduates

Answer 6

You can't contact the college at all - they won't tell you anything.

There is NO way for a person to verify another person's college degree without the person's written consent.

Every college has an employer degree verification form that the employer can file, but the person must sign it. You can't just call a school and say he, did Joe Blow graduate yet?

Answer 7

You could ask the person if he/she has a college degree. You could also contact the university where he/she studied and ask them that you want to confirm about that particular person if he/she has a college degree.

Answer 8

1 Contact the school. Most college registrars will confirm dates of attendance and graduation, as well as degrees awarded and majors, upon request. If the applicant gives permission, they may provide a certified academic transcript. If you aren’t familiar with the school, don’t stop your research just because someone answers your questions on the phone or responds with a letter. Some diploma mills offer a “verification service” that will send a phony transcript to a prospective employer who calls.

2 Research the school on the Internet. Check to see if the school is accredited by a recognized agency. Colleges and universities accredited by legitimate agencies generally undergo a rigorous review of the quality of their educational programs. If a school has been accredited by a nationally recognized accrediting agency, it’s probably legitimate. Many diploma mills claim to be “accredited,” but the accreditation is from a bogus, but official-sounding, agency they invented.

You can use the Internet to check if a school is accredited by a legitimate organization at a new database of accredited academic institutions, posted by the U.S. Department of Education at www.ope.ed.gov/accreditation. (There are a few legitimate institutions that have not pursued accreditation.)

To find out if an accrediting agency is legitimate, check the list of recognized national and regional accrediting agencies maintained by the Council for Higher Education Accreditation at www.chea.org.

Look at the school’s website. Although it is prudent to check out the school on the Internet, it’s not always easy to pick out a diploma mill based on a quick scan of its site. Some diploma mills have slick websites, and a “dot-edu” Web address doesn’t guarantee legitimacy. Nevertheless, the website can be a source of information. Indeed, federal officials say it’s probably a diploma mill if:

tuition is charged on a per-degree basis, rather than per credit, course, or semester
there are few or unspecified degree requirements, or none at all
the emphasis is on degrees for work or life experience, and
the school is relatively new, or has recently changed its name.


Check other resources. There is no comprehensive list of diploma mills on the Web because new phony credentialing sources arise all the time. However, the Oregon Student Assistance Commission’s Office of Degree Authorization maintains a list of organizations it has identified as diploma mills at www.osac.state.or.us/oda. Another way to check up on a school is to call the registrar of a local college or university and ask if it would accept transfer credits from the school you are researching.

3 Ask the applicant for proof of the degree and the school’s accreditation. If you don’t get satisfactory answers from the school itself and the accreditation sites on the Web, ask the applicant for proof of the degree, including a certified transcipt, and the school’s accreditation. Ultimately, it’s up to the applicant to show that he earned his credentials from a legitimate institution.

Answer 9

Some do. Don't take a chance - it's not worth it. You would get fired. You don't need to live in fear. If they don't want you "as is" then the job is not worth it. Play up your experience and your abilities; play down your lack of a degree. Look into on-line courses to finish your degree. A degree - any degree - looks better than no degree!

Answer 10

I am not sure on HOW you can get confirmation that a person graduated from college as they claimed to be, but it's possible. I am not sure on which information you need to get their information about degree conferral because it depends on the school.

BUT it is possible to actually call the school and to find out that that person graduated from