Education system in India is quite different from that of US. India has two types of universities. The one which are residential and offer on campus class-room education and the other which either do not offer any class-room education or only master’s classes and has a number of affiliated schools & colleges. For example all IIT’s and IIM’s falls under the first category, whereas University of Delhi or University of Mumbai would fall under the second category. In US all bachelor degrees irrespective of major subject or discipline are known as BS but it is different in India. A bachelor degree with commerce as major would be known as B.Com, a bachelor degree with history as major would be known as B.A. and a bachelor degree with physics as major would be known as B.Sc. The same criteria apply to Master degrees.

Social Security Number issued in US has no relevance in India. Date of birth is useful to identify a candidate but records are not maintained by date of birth. Father’s name in case of unmarried male and female candidates and husband’s name in case of married females plays important role in identifying a candidate.

 Although computerization of records is in progress in all educational institutions/schools but except for the IIT’s, IIM’s and newly established educational institutions and for search of recent records, most of the schools are dependent on old records. These are in paper form and are highly voluminous. It takes time for schools to dig out old volumes.

To get verification from an IIT or IIM even if we give them name of candidate, year of graduation and name of degree earned, it may suffice but to get faster response from most of the educational institutions in India, we suggest for following input information:

a)      Name of applicant as in University/School

b)      Name & atleast location of school attended

c)      Dates attended or date of graduation

d)      Exact name of degree earned like B.A./B.Com/B.Sc/B.E.

e)      Roll Number/Registration Number/Hall Ticket Number

f)        A copy of diploma certificate

g)      Copy of release or authorization

 Note:

1) It is impossible to get copies of transcripts

2) A good number of universities/schools charges for giving information.

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