If You Are Leaving Europe

If you're like most students, the coursework you have taken with UMUC represents a stepping stone in the process of continuing your formal education and developing your professional life. Here is some information we'd like you to know about your permanent records.

Requesting Your Transcript

If you transfer to another university or apply for a job, you will need to document your academic qualification. An official transcript may be just what you need. To make sure your transcript is ready when you need it, please remember the following:

Before You Leave Europe

It is a good idea to review a copy of your unofficial transcript after you have finished taking courses with UMUC Europe, but before you depart. Review it carefully to ensure that the unofficial transcript matches your own records. If for any reason your records and the unofficial UMUC transcript do not agree (e.g., a grade change has not been received at the UMUC Europe headquarters and therefore does not appear on your unofficial transcript), there is still time to resolve discrepancies. Once you leave Europe it is more difficult to do so. You may review your unofficial transcript in your MyUMUC student portal:

MyAcademics > Academic Reports > View My Unofficial Transcript

Permanent Location of Your Undergraduate Records

The MyUMUC student portal allows you to access your student records from anywhere in the world. If you are transferring to a different division of UMUC, please remember to submit a Divisional Transfer request via the student portal so that your student records and services are provided by the appropriate campus. You may submit a Divisional Transfer in the MyUMUC student portal at:

MyAcademics > Academic Records > Divisional Transfer

Requesting a Transcript

To request an official transcript, please go to the MyUMUC student portal:

MyAcademics > Academic Reports > Request My Official Transcript

If you need further assistance, please contact your local UMUC field representative. If a UMUC field representative is not available in your community, you may wish to reach the UMUC Europe Transcript Office in Heidelberg, Germany, from Monday-Friday, 0800-1700 at +49-(0)6221-3780, or send an e-mail to transcripts@europe.umuc.edu.

Completing Your UMUC Degree After You Leave Europe

Completing minimum degree requirements through UMUC before you leave Europe can guarantee you the option of completing your degree almost anywhere you go. More than 20 percent of all recent degree recipients through UMUC Europe do this by transferring credit from other sources after leaving Europe.

All you have to do to finish your degree elsewhere is, before departing Europe:

  1. Secure an official evaluation.
  2. Satisfactorily complete minimum course requirements with UMUC.

For a UMUC 18 credit certificate, this means completing a minimum of 9 credits with UMUC.

For a UMUC associate's degree, this means completing a minimum of 15 credits with UMUC (with possible distribution requirements, depending upon the program).

For a UMUC bachelor's degree, it means completing a minimum of 30 credits with UMUC (with at least half of the credits earned for the major and at least half the credits earned for the minor and at least 15 upper-level credits). A Maryland academic advisor can tell you precisely where you stand in your chosen degree program.

Please remember that you must arrange for official transcripts to be sent from other schools directly to the UMUC headquarters in Heidelberg at one of the above addresses. Personal copies or copies of transcripts sent to you or any other source cannot be accepted.

Other Options After You Leave Europe

If you are degree seeking with UMUC and relocate to the Pacific theater served by UMUC Asia or to the State of Maryland and the greater Washington, D.C. area (to include the Pentagon) served by UMUC in Adelphi, Maryland, you can take classes with UMUC at more than 85 locations. It's just as easy as signing up for classes at another education center served by UMUC Europe. Your UMUC records from Europe follow you to your new location. There, your official evaluation will be in force, and you can continue studying with UMUC.

If you relocate to an area where UMUC does not offer on-site classes, you can still complete your degree in distance education format through online study. For more information about online opportunities with UMUC, contact:

Tel (800) 888-UMUC (Toll Free)
       Local (301) 985-7000
Web http://www.umuc.edu/onlinelearning/about.shtml

For information about UMUC Asia, contact:

DSN 315-225-3680
CIV +81-(0)42-552-2510,
         Ext. 5-3680

DSN fax 315-225-8485
CIV fax +81-(0) 42-551-8305

E-mail sservices@asia.umuc.edu
Web www.asia.umuc.edu

 

APO Mail
UMUC Asia
Unit 5060, Box 0100
APO AP 96328-0100

Civilian Mail
UMUC Asia
Bldg 445, Yokota Air Base
Fussa, Fussa-shi
Tokyo 197-0001
Japan

For information about UMUC Statewide Programs, contact:

University of Maryland University College
3501 University Boulevard East
Adelphi, MD 20742

CIV +1-(301) 985-7000
E-mail umucINFO@umuc.edu
Web www.umuc.edu/ugp

Last updated: 21 January 2011