Diploma Information

Your name as it will be printed on your diploma and in the ceremony program, can be seen in the box titled Graduation (see path listed above to find this information). Your DIPLOMA NAME is your legal name on file in the MTSU student system at the time you submitted your Intent to Graduate form. All diploma name changes for December 2023 expected graduates must be submitted by Friday, October 20, 2023. Diploma reprints due to a name change after the posted deadline are $30 per diploma.

You do NOT have to submit legal documentation if you are simply changing an existing middle name to an initial, removing a middle or maiden name from your diploma name or updating your diploma name based on an official name change completed after submission of your Intent to Graduate. For this type of diploma name change, you can email records@mtsu.edu from your MTSU issued email.  Please include your M number.

If you need to change your diploma name (for example, add a middle name, change a last name, etc.), you must submit a name change form (you will log into your PipelineMT account to go to the form) and the required documentation.  Required documentation that will be accepted for a name change includes valid state issued driver’s license, state-issued identification card, passport or permanent resident card.  The purpose of this new dynamic Name Change form is to allow for secure submission of documents for an official university name change.

IMPORTANT:  After you receive the confirmation email that your MTSU system name has been changed, you must then email records@mtsu.edu and indicate a diploma name change is also requested.  Submitting the Name Change form does not automatically update the diploma name.  You may also choose to go in person to the MT OneStop to complete a paper name change form with the accepted documentation as listed above. 

If you are an International Student only International Affairs or the College of Graduate Studies may change your system name. If International Affairs or the College of Graduate Studies makes a change to your system name you must then notify records@mtsu.edu to update your diploma name by the deadline.

Your diploma address is the address listed on your Intent to Graduate form. As you may have moved since submitting your intent or plan to move after graduation you are responsible for verifying your diploma address.

A diploma mailing address change can only be made by emailing records@mtsu.edu from your MTSU email indicating “diploma” address. You must include your M#. All diploma mailing address changes must be submitted by Friday, December 15, 2023. There will be a $30.00 charge to re-issue your diploma if the diploma address was not updated by the deadline and subsequently mailed to an invalid address. 

Submitting an address change through your PipelineMT account or completing a change of address form will NOT change the address to which your diploma will be mailed.

Diplomas will be mailed beginning January 8. 2024. There is no pick-up option. All financial obligations to the university (tuition, parking tickets, telephone charges, etc.) must be paid before a diploma will be released. 

If you are mailing your diploma to an international address, you will need to use eShipGlobal for delivery.  eShipGlobal will verify your delivery address is valid, allow your diploma can be tracked and appropriately delivered.  If you need to update your DIPLOMA MAILING ADDRESS to a U.S. address please email the new address to records@mtsu.edu no later than Friday, December 15, 2023.

Transcripts for verified graduates will be available Friday, December 22, 2023. If you would like to order transcripts to be included in the eShipGlobal package with your diploma, please complete the transcript request form and return to Records@mtsu.edu no later than December 8, 2023. Please put your eShipGlobal order number as the MAIL TO on the transcript request.

MAILING DIPLOMA/TRANSCRIPTS INTERNATIONALLY:

Please follow the steps below to order eShipGlobal delivery:

1. Go to https://study.eshipglobal.com
2. Log in or sign up for an account
3. Select Receive Documents from the University
4. Select MTSU   
5. Select Registrar’s Office
6. Enter all shipping, payment, and carrier information

Please complete your eShipGlobal request no later than Friday, December 8, 2023. Once diplomas are ready to be mailed, we will mail using your eShipGlobal order which you will be able to track once it is picked up by the carrier. 

Deadlines for diploma name or diploma mailing address changes for December 2023 expected graduates:

Diploma name change deadline - Friday, October 20, 2023
Diploma mailing address deadline - Friday, December 15, 2023

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MTSU diploma sizes are 8½“x 11” for undergraduates and 11” x 14” for graduate students. The diploma will only include your name and degree earned.

Your name and degree earned are printed on the MTSU diploma. Majors, concentrations, and minors are not printed on the diploma but will be listed on the official transcript. Students earning a double major (same degree) receive one diploma. Students earning dual degrees (example: BS/BSN, BA/BM) will receive two diplomas. Latin Honors, if applicable, will be printed on the diploma.

All diplomas will be mailed to verified December graduates beginning Monday, January 8, 2024, to the diploma mailing address that displays on the Graduation Information link. There is no pick-up option. Please expect 21 business days for the MTSU / U.S. Post Offices to process and deliver within the continental U.S. Graduates with an international diploma mailing address must choose to individually pay to have the diploma mailed using eShipGlobal, or change the diploma address to a U.S. mailing address.

The MTSU Phillips Bookstore offers diploma frames in-store and online.  The bookstore is located at 1768 MTSU Blvd, Murfreesboro, TN 37132.  Check out the Phillips Bookstore webpage for more MTSU merchandise.