Admitted applicants who earned their undergraduate degrees from universities outside the UAE must present a Certificate of Equivalency or a Qualification Recognition report for their graduation certificates from the UAE Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research (MOHESR).
Applicants who earned their degrees from universities inside the UAE may be required to present a Certificate of Equivalency or a Qualification Recognition report for their graduation certificates from MOHESR. In such cases, Graduate Admissions will notify the applicants.
Please note that AUS is not involved in the equivalency process or decisions. Issuing of a Certificate Equivalency or a Qualification Recognition report is controlled fully by MOHESR.
How to Request a Report
Equivalency or Qualification Recognition report applications can be submitted online.
- First, register online at MOHESR under Services – Service Catalog – Recognition. For a detailed list of the requirements and documents, click here, contact +971 800 511, or email Info@mohesr.gov.ae.
- Applicants have to prepare and attest all the required university certificates and transcripts before leaving their home country and/or the country in which they graduated.
- For information about attesting your university certificates and transcripts, please click here.
- Equivalency or Qualification Recognition report applications can be submitted online.
- Applicants who have applied for a Certificate of Equivalency or a Qualification Recognition report but who have not concluded the process by the time of course registration will be given the chance to register for the first semester, provided that they sign the Graduate Admission Contract.