The results of your studies are recorded as official academic documents: graduation certificates (parchments or degree certificates) and academic transcripts. These are official proof of your qualification.
My eQuals is our secure online academic document verification platform that serves more than 50 education providers across New Zealand and Australia including all the major universities.
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/My AUT account – you should log in to check the email address stored in your Arion/My AUT account is still valid.
The Graduate Verification Service (GVS) helps employers and other third parties verify the qualifications of our graduates. The service is designed to offer real-time verification to speed up the employment process for graduates. This service is offered as part of the My eQuals system that we currently use. The privacy of your data is protected, and verification only occurs if you have provided explicit consent.
When a prospective employer who is also registered with GVS indicates that they’d like to run some verification checks as part of their selection process, they will send you a text or a link to provide consent and some details to enable GVS to confirm your qualifications.
For employers not using GVS, you may need to provide them with your certified documents digitally via My eQuals. The employer may also search the AUT graduate database.
A parchment is your official qualification document, and you get it for free when you graduate.
You can receive your parchment:
All parchments include:
A digital version of the parchment can be issued to My eQuals for any qualification granted from 2012 onwards.
If you graduated:
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:
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:
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.
For enquiries about academic transcripts get in touch with the AUT graduation team.
Email graduation@aut.ac.nz