Transcripts

A transcript is a written summary of your classroom work at MU. This document includes a list of courses that you took each semester, the grade earned in each class, how many credit hours were awarded for each class and a grade point average.

Official Versus Unofficial Transcripts

Both an official transcript and an unofficial transcript are available to you.

• An official transcript has the University Seal on it and you are charged a small fee for it. The official transcript is ordinarily what is required when you apply to graduate schools, when you request to enroll as a visiting student somewhere else, and when a potential employer asks for a record of your academic work. Usually a transcript used for these purposes must be mailed directly from the University to the person who needs it, rather than to you. You can go to 130 Jesse Hall to request an official transcript or, for more information, see Procedure for Requesting Transcripts on the Registrar's Web site.
• An unofficial transcript (or unofficial academic history) is the one you and your advisor will use on a regular basis to plot your degree progress. It has additional information important to your advisor that is not on your official transcript. The unofficial transcript lists, in addition to your academic work at MU, your local and permanent address, who your advisor is, and what your ACT or SAT scores were, if available. This unofficial transcript should not be used for purposes outside the MU campus.
  
  To email a copy of your academic history (also known as an advising profile or unofficial transcript) to yourself, use the following steps in myZou:
  
      1. Click on Self Service, then go to your Student Center
      2. From the Student Center, select Unofficial Academic Record
          from the “other academic…” drop down list.
      3. Click the Go button.
  

  On the unofficial transcript are also three different GPA's: one for each semester, a cumulative GPA that includes all University of Missouri coursework, and the official cumulative GPA that includes all University of Missouri coursework but modified by the course repeat policy.