For all third-party verifications, The University of Manchester uses the Higher Education Degree Datacheck (HEDD) online verification service, enabling employers and agencies to verify The University of Manchester (including former UMIST) awards and any affiliated awards. Please note that this service is only available for third parties and any verification requests must be submitted by the third party on behalf of the student and not by the student themselves.
To make an enquiry, you need to register on the HEDD website. Select 'The University of Manchester' from the list of UK higher education institutions and choose the option to 'verify a degree award'. You'll be charged £12 per enquiry. You’ll need the individual’s name, date of birth, course, and qualification. For graduates, you'll also need their year of graduation and degree result. We recommend that you ask to see the degree certificate if there is one and use that as the basis of your verification enquiry, or ask individuals to give you their data as they believe it’s recorded in the student records system, so that you have a better chance of getting an automatic verification. If you don’t get an automatic verification, the enquiry will go to our team for manual verification, with a 14 working-day turnaround time.
Automatically verified;
Pending – this means we couldn’t automatically verify your enquiry and you’re waiting for a response from us;
Not verified – where we have responded in the negative;
Partially verified – where we have verified some but not all of the data, for example: the wrong year of graduation has been submitted.
If you have any problems or queries email heddhelp@prospects.ac.uk (include your phone number if you would like a call back).
(University Switchboard)
+44 (0) 161 306 6000
The University of Manchester
Oxford Road
Manchester
M13 9PL
