📁 Request an Official Transcript

Question

How do I request an official transcript?

Answer

Official Transcripts...

• are legal documents often used by schools or companies to verify course/degree completion.
• contain courses, grades, and degrees from all six South Dakota Board of Regents institutions (BHSU, DSU, NSU, SDSMT, USD, and SDSU).
• cost $9.00 per transcript.
• will not be issued to anyone with a "Perkins hold" through any of the six South Dakota Board of Regents institutions.

Requesting an Official Transcript:

1. Go to the Parchment Ordering Site.
2. If this is your first time ordering a transcript, you will be prompted to create a Parchment account. Otherwise, sign in.
   1. Use your personal email when creating a Parchment account.
3. Enter your enrollment information.
4. Select to Order an official transcript.
5. Select the delivery destination:
   1. Yourself
      1. Select I'm sending to myself or another individual > I am sending this order to myself.
   2. Another individual
      1. Select I'm sending to myself or another individual > I am sending this order to another individual.
      2. Enter the recipients information.
   3. A company or school
      1. Search for the company or school using the search box.
      2. If they don't show up, select I'm sending to myself or another individual > I am sending this order to another individual.
      3. Enter the company or school's information. 
6. Fill out the final item details and sign.
7. Complete payment. Each official transcript is $9.00.
8. The transcript will be delivered from "South Dakota Board of Regents", not "Northern State University".