Education Verification

Education verification, or academic verification, entails verifying the educational details of the candidate, authenticity of the candidate’s degree, year of completion and the course pursued. Education verification is important for jobs as the employers want to ensure that they are hiring the right candidate. However, with the number of people stating fake degrees and producing fake certificates rising across the country, education verification is also gaining importance in matrimonial verification.  

Ideally, education verification should rely on the source institution/university for verification and not on of documents provided by candidates as proof. The documents provided by the candidate should be cross checked with the institution/ university. 

Certain things that need to be kept in mind while conducting education verifications are:

• Colleges and Universities usually provide verification via a manual process through their own staff.

• Usually, degrees are verified by background checking services within one to two weeks. However, it depends on the years of passing out of the candidate and might take longer if s/he graduated some years back or is not listed in the database.

• Some schools ask for candidate's disclosure and release form before issuing the verification.

• If the candidate is a female, it should be made sure that the information submitted reflects the actual name with which the candidate graduated, as at times, she might provide her married name which might be different from the maiden one.