Qualification evidence for university admission in the UK

Short answer

Check the course’s accepted qualifications and records before ordering a comparison.

Sources: UCAS

Who decides

The admitting university or college.

Sources: UCAS

Check this before paying

Read the course requirements and ask how international qualifications and English evidence are accepted.

Sources: UCAS

When this applies

Universities set their own course entry requirements. Academic records and English evidence answer separate questions.

Sources: UCAS

Which document

The course’s requested academic records and any accepted external comparison.

Sources: UCAS

Avoid the wrong purchase

A Statement of Comparability does not report grades, subjects or English proficiency.

Sources: UK ENIC / Ecctis

What this does not do

The statement supports original documents; the institution makes the admission decision.

Sources: UK ENIC / Ecctis

Your next official step

Use UCAS’s entry-requirement guidance, then confirm the institution’s actual document instructions.

Sources: UCAS

Course evidence and a comparison certificate are not interchangeable

UCAS says institutions set their own entry requirements and accept international qualifications according to the course. They also specify how English proficiency must be demonstrated. UK ENIC’s statement puts a qualification in context but does not give subject, grade or English-proficiency comparisons.

Sources: Course-specific international entry requirements · Statement of Comparability: purpose and exclusions

Oxford graduate example: transcript detail, translation and application stage

Oxford’s graduate transcript guidance asks for the university-level record of courses and grades. A degree certificate normally is not a transcript; the guide includes specific PhD/DPhil and certain MBBS certificate exceptions. Check the department’s instructions rather than applying that exception to every award.

The transcript can be uploaded for the application. If an offer is made, the department may require a final or more formal record sent directly by the institution or accredited e-transcript provider. For non-English transcripts, submit the original and an accepted institution-issued or professionally certified English translation. Translation alone is insufficient. This is a graduate example, not all UK admissions policy.

Sources: Graduate transcript content and conditional delivery

DiploWay preparation: ask about the missing evidence

Make separate entries for course content/grades, qualification level and English evidence. Ask which part is unresolved and which recipient needs each record. Do not pay for a generic comparison to supply information it does not include.

Explore another use for the same qualification

• Non-regulated work: Qualification evidence for non-regulated work in the UK
• Immigration documents: Qualification and English evidence for UK immigration documents
• Regulated profession: Find the profession regulator and UK nation for qualified work