Certified Electronic Credentials FAQs

Only those who have graduated as of January 25, 2020 will be able to purchase/download a CeDiploma/CeCertificate. If you’d like to request your Degree Certification, please email diploma@bu.edu. If you’d like to purchase a replacement diploma, please click here.

Please review our diploma order/mailing cycle. Your CeCredential will only be ordered if you have an official graduation status, provided a diploma mailing address, and have no University holds. For May graduates your CeCredential will be available 4-6 weeks after the official degree conferral date. For January/September graduates your diploma and CeCredential will follow the diploma order/mailing cycle.

Degree documents will not be distributed to graduates with account holds. If you’re a May graduate and your account hold has been lifted after our mail date then you’ll need to email diploma@bu.edu to release your paper diploma/CeCredential. If you’re a January/September graduate and your account hold has been lifted during our diploma order/mailing cycle, then your diploma and CeCredential will be ordered on the following order date. If your hold has been lifted after our diploma order/mailing operation has ended, you will need to email diploma@bu.edu to release your paper diploma and your CeCredential.

There is no deadline as to when you must download your CeCredential. Although that is the case, if you believe you might want to purchase it at a later date we highly recommend clicking Register/Download, signing in with your BU ID and Password, and then Registering for a free account on their CeCredential Trust website. That way if you lose access to your BU ID/Password, you will be able to log in from their website to download your CeCredential at any time instead of having to do a BU sign in from the Register/Download link on our website.

A CeCredential cannot be printed for security purposes. It is expected that the digital PDF will be used for verification, thus eliminating the need to distribute a paper version of your diploma.