Diploma Authentication

To have your diploma authenticated, please submit:

1. An 8 1/2" x 11" photocopy of your diploma

2. A signed letter requesting authentication, including an address to which it should be mailed. Our mailing address is: Carnegie Mellon Enrollment Services, 5000 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3890.

Carnegie Mellon will provide a signed notarized letter of authentication on the reverse side of your diploma photocopy, and forward it to the specified address.

Many countries and territories now require diploma authentication for graduates working abroad. (As stated below)

Since October 15, 1981, the United States has been part of the 1961 Hague Convention abolishing the Requirement of Legalization for Foreign Public Documents. The Convention provides for the simplified certification of public (including notarized) documents to be used in countries that have joined the convention (see list of countries). Documents destined for use in participating countries and their territories should be certified by one of the officials in the jurisdiction in which the document has been executed. Said official must have been designated as competent to issue certifications by "apostille" (usually in the office of the State Secretary of State of his/her counterpart) as provided for by the 1961 Hague Convention. A list of the authorities in the United States competent to issue the apostille can be found here.

With this certification by the Hague Convention apostille, the document is entitled to recognition in the country of intended use, and no certification by the Authentications Office or legalization by the embassy or consulate of the foreign country where the document is to be used is required. The Authentications Office only certifies documents from other federal agencies and officials from foreign governments with the apostille.