Updated October 2025.
University Transcripts or Student Transcripts are a record of all the classes you took for to obtain your degree (general education and major classes). You can obtain them from your office of registrar or your student affairs office.
Unofficial vs. Official Transcripts
Unofficial transcripts are transcripts that can be freely accessed from your university’s online student portal site or are transcripts that are printed but are not sealed by your university. EPIK does not accept unofficial transcripts for university transcript submission.
Official transcripts are transcripts that are ordered and sealed by your university. To remain official and acceptable by EPIK, they must be sealed. Opening them for any reason will revoke their “official” status.
Those In-Progress of Completing their Degree
If you have not yet graduated, you must obtain your current in-progress official transcripts and submit them with your documents. Once you have graduated you must later order and submit new official transcripts with your apostilled diploma. The new transcripts must reflect your graduated status.
Transfer Students and those that Attended More than School
Students who attended one or more universities for their degree (transfers) must submit either an all-inclusive transcript from their latest university (containing the grades and credits from the previous and current schools) or they must submit official transcripts from both their previous and current schools.
Please note: the above only applies if you attended your final, graduating school (i.e., the school giving you your diploma) for less than 2 years.
Do the sealed transcripts require a signature with tape on the outside or is it sufficient that the official transcripts are in sealed envelopes sent by the university to me?
a stamp or signature on the back of the sealed envelope is required.
Hello, just wondering whose signature should be on the sealed envelope? Our own or an official signature?
does university have to send it too me? like is okay that my address is on it and my school is asking for what company. Do I put Epik or Korvia? I’m so confused
How long are sealed transcripts good for? For example I ordered 3 copies of my sealed transcripts last year. If I apply for Spring 2021, are they still valid?
So a stamp or signature is required on the back of the envelope; one or the other and not both? I guess the stamp needs to be across the join on the back after the envelope with the transcripts within it is sealed down. Some Universities just give you the transcripts with an embossed seal on them to prove it is an original and won’t stamp an envelope. This can be a problem.
Hello Joe,
Your transcript is valid as long as it officially sealed and have either a stamp or a signature.
Regards,
I saw that you only mentioned the official transcript being only acceptable by the GEPIK and EPIK program, I plan on applying to private academies does this mean that private academies would take unofficial transcripts?
Hello Renee,
The public sector will require official seal transcripts as a mandatory, and private sector can request you a transcript for Native English teacher registration at the district office of education in South Korea.
Hi, since the application is done online, when will these transcripts be submitted?
You need to submit your transcripts when you will send your final documents after a job interview.
My University does not send sealed transcripts anymore, I am only able to access it online and print it myself or share it electronically. Please advise what I should do.
EPIK does accept electronic transcript however you must allow direct access of transcript record by proving ID and password. A self-printed transcript is not acceptable for the EPIK application.
Is one set of transcripts sufficient?
Hello, is there an official GPA requirement for EPIK ? Can I still get accepted if my GPA is lower
Hi!
While I was in university I went on an exchange term abroad. My official transcript from my home university includes the courses I took abroad but they’re graded as pass/fail. Is that fine, or do I need to contact the exchange university for a numerical number and have that sealed?
Thanks,
Anima
Hello,
My Australian University does not use a GPA system, therefore it will not be included in my transcript.
Will this be okay?
Thanks,
Michelle
Hello,
As long as there is a way to calculate the grades or your school provides some kind of conversion chart, it should be okay.
If all that is required is for a rubber stamp and signature across the envelope, this doesn’t seem to meet the requirement that the seal is proof that the envelope has not been opened. A person could steam the envelope open and replace the contents. What does a valid seal comprise of then? Does it need to be a wax seal or a sticker or something?
There does not need to be a wax seal or a sticker. As long as the transcripts are in the envelope they came in and are not opened, that will be good enough.
Hey, just wanted to ask if I can apply if the University refuses to give me my official transcript because I owe fees. Is there any other official document that is acceptable,eg a letter of completion?
EPIK and other public school programs will require you to submit official transcripts.
Some hagwons, however, may or may not ask for you to submit transcripts.
Hi, my university has only allowed me to print one set of original transcripts. They also said that they cannot seal the original transcripts. However, they can make certified copies of my academic transcripts, place them in sealed envelopes, and stamp them. Is this okay?
Hello Kirtania,
Thank you for reaching out. For your final documents, the transcripts must be official and sealed in the school-provided envelope. Certified copies are accepted as long as they are unopened and placed in a sealed envelope. Your university’s approach of making certified copies and sealing them is acceptable.