Verification of academic degrees
Below you'll find information on verifying academic degrees for WiSo alumni, as well as on forwarding documents for current WiSo students elsewhere.
Verification requests from third parties
If you're an employer or verification agency wishing to confirm someone's academic degree, you'll find the requirements below. Because this counts as sharing personal data, we can only respond if certain legal conditions are met.
What we need from you:
- A copy of the candidate's ID or passport (signature, full name — including birth name if applicable — and date of birth must be visible)
- A signed authorisation from the candidate, naming your agency and explicitly permitting the University of Cologne to release the data (authorisation to access the data on the candidate's side is not enough, it must authorise us to release it)
→ You can use our authorisation template (PDF)
Please send documents as PDF files only.
Who to contact:
Bachelor's, Master's, or Diploma degrees: verification(at)wiso.uni-koeln(dot)de
PhD degrees: promotion(at)wiso.uni-koeln(dot)de
Forwarding documents to third parties (for students)
Need your official documents sent directly to a third party, such as another university? Submit a forwarding request for the Examination Office via the WiSo Inbox.
Where possible, the Examination Office will send the requested document to the postal or email address of the relevant institution as stated in your request.
No longer have access to the WiSo Inbox? Use our contact form instead.