| Transcript Type |
Description |
Target Audience |
General Uses (examples) |
| Unofficial Transcript |
- Displays student’s UM course work to date and any transfer credit from previous academic institutions
- Includes details on:
- Academic standing and discipline
- Honors
- Milestones
- Previous academic institution degree and address information
- How course work transfers to UM Career, Program, and Plan
|
Primarily Internal Document |
- Academic Standing evaluation tool
- General university (UM) business
- Degree clearance tool(in lieu of Degree Audit Report)
- Advising tool (in lieu of Degree Audit Report)
|
| Official Transcript |
- Displays student’s academic UM course work to date (previous experience is displayed only in summary)
- Does not include:
- Program/Plan activity
- Detailed discipline activity
- Printed only by Registrar’s Office
|
Primarily External Document |
- Application for admission to another institution
- Application for employment
- Used for all off-campus purposes
|
| Advising Report |
- Includes same information as Unofficial Transcript plus:
- Admit term
- Student group membership
- Standardized test results
- Student placement test scores with their recommendations and rationales
|
Primarily Internal Document |
- General university (UM) business
- Degree clearance tool(in lieu of Degree Audit Report)
- Advising tool (in lieu of Degree Audit Report)
|