Student Forms, Verifications, Records, Transcripts + Diplomas

Benedictine University has authorized the National Student Clearinghouse to provide self-service enrollment verification certificates and degree verifications. The National Student Clearinghouse follows all federal privacy laws.

All currently enrolled students may obtain a free, printed Enrollment Verification Certificate by following the steps below:

• Click on the Verify Your Enrollment Status link
• Provide the National Student Clearinghouse with your name and birth date
• Select option to print your own Enrollment Verification Certificate, view information on file, view loan deferment notifications that have been sent, or see proofs of enrollment that have been provided to other providers.

This self-printed Enrollment Verification Certificate is considered to be official and can be presented to your employer, health insurance agencies, insurance agencies, housing authorities, consumer product companies, financial institutions (banks) etc. when you are required to provide official evidence of enrollment at Benedictine University.

Information regarding student enrollment is submitted to the National Student Clearinghouse electronically each term. The first verification for the term takes place approximately 3 weeks after the term begins. Graduation data is updated approximately 4 weeks after each graduation date.

Benedictine University has authorized the National Student Clearinghouse to provide degree verifications.

Follow these steps:

• Go to NSC Verification Services
• Click on Verify Now and select Degree or School Certificate
• Enter the name of school, degree received, level, major, year and your personal information
• Click Submit
• Enter payment information

Most Verification Service requests are confirmed instantly as a PDF. When enrollment is not verified it is due to one of the following reasons:

• Record requested may predate Benedictine University’s electronic records therefore more time is required to research the record
• Incorrect information was entered when the request was submitted
• Student has a privacy block on the record
• Benedictine University has placed a HOLD on the record
• Benedictine University did not send the record to the NSC

These requests will be sent to Benedictine University for verification on the next business day and the National Student Clearinghouse will send you a notification when the PDF is available for download.

• Phone: 703.742.4200
• FAX: 703.318.4058
• Web: http://studentclearinghouse.org/
• Email: [email protected]
• Mail: National Student Clearinghouse
  2300 Dulles Station Boulevard. Suite 300, Herndon, VA 20171

Benedictine University participates in the National Student Clearinghouse, located in Herndon, Virginia. Several times each academic term, the university submits a report of students’ enrollment status to the Clearinghouse which, in turn, supplies verifications of enrollment to loan servicing agencies.

We, along with most loan servicing organizations, participate in the Clearinghouse’s paperless deferment process. With this process, no paper forms need to be completed by either students or schools–the student simply calls his or her servicer to request a deferment. The servicer then posts a deferment to the student’s account after the student’s verbal order is matched against the Clearinghouse electronic data verifying in-school (at least half-time) status.

If your lender does not participate in this process and needs a deferment form completed, bring the form to the Office of the Registrar (or email a signed and scanned copy to #[email protected]). Once our staff signs the form, we return it to the student who sends it to the Clearinghouse. They will confirm your enrollment has been sent to your lender. Benedictine University does not provide this information directly to the lending agencies. If you registered late or had an exception processed to your term registration, this information may not be reported until our next Clearinghouse submission.

Please note, loan deferment is based on enrollment in classes. It is NOT based on graduation, taking an incomplete in a class, leave of absence from one’s program, nor pending the completion or defense of a masters/ doctoral thesis. Deferment eligibility stops when classes conclude or the day that a student drops below half-time student status.

If you receive a collection letter from a servicer, you should:

• Call your lending agency to see if they received a deferment from the Clearinghouse after they sent you the collection letter.
• If after calling your servicer, it still appears that your deferment was not processed, call the Clearinghouse at 703-721-4200. A Clearinghouse representative can verify the date they received the deferment form, when the deferment was certified, when your enrollment status was certified, and to which servicers your deferrable status was reported.
• If an emergency exists (e.g. you are being threatened with default), the Clearinghouse can intervene on your behalf by faxing another enrollment certification to your servicer. Further, it will work with your servicer to ensure that the form is processed on a high-priority basis.