Enrollment Verification

Enrollment Status Guide

Enrollment Verification Information

NEW! Request Enrollment Verification (student only)

Degree Verification Information

NEW! Request Degree Verification (student only)

Loan Deferment

Enrollment Status Guide

Undergraduate Students
11.0 quarter hours or more = Full-Time
6.0 – 10.5 quarter hours = Half-Time
0.5 – 5.5 quarter hours = Less Than Half-Time

Graduate Students
9.0 quarter hours or more = Full-Time
5.0 – 8.5 quarter hours = Half-Time
0.5 – 4.5 quarter hours = Less Than Half-time

Medical Students
9.0 quarter hours or more = Full-Time
5.0 – 8.5 quarter hours = Half-Time
0.5 – 4.5 quarter hours = Less Than Half-time

Enrollment Verification

Students often need official verification of their enrollment status sent to various agencies and organizations, including:

Insurance companies
Automobile dealers
Prospective employers
Credit card companies
Pension fund companies
U.S. Veterans Affairs (VA)
Financial aid lenders and loan guarantors, via the National Student Clearinghouse

There are two options to obtain proof of your enrollment at Ohio University

The National Student Clearinghouse offers enrollment verification letters online 24 hours/day, 7 days/week for a nominal charge. They also offer a free “LoanLocator” service to help you track your student loans. Visit them here.
Enrollment verification is a free service offered by the Office of the University Registrar. Students may request enrollment verifications here. You will be prompted to enter your student Oak ID and password.

University Registrar staff will answer telephone inquiries, mail or fax official enrollment verification letters, and certify application forms relating to enrollment verification.

Please contact: Enrollment Verification, General

Karen Perez

740-593-4202

perez@ohio.edu

Degree Verification

There are two options to obtain proof of your degree at Ohio University

Ohio University has contracted with the National Student Clearinghouse to provide electronic services to the human resources community and others that need verification of Ohio University degrees awarded. To access the electronic services of the National Student Clearinghouse (our degree verification partner) click on the following address 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year: http://www.degreeverify.org. If you need assistance, contact the National Student Clearinghouse directly at 703-742-4200. Customer Service Hours: Mondays through Thursdays, 9:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m., and Fridays from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., ET.
Degree verification is a free service offered by the Office of the University Registrar. Students may request degree verifications here. You will be prompted to enter your student Oak ID and password.

Loan Deferment

STUDENT LOAN DEFERMENT PROCESSING

Ohio 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 verification of enrollment to lending agencies.

Most lenders and loan servicing organizations that participate in the Clearinghouse also participate in our 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 status. A list of participating student lenders is available at

www.studentclearinghouse.org/gls/lenders_servicers.htm

If your lender needs a deferment form processed, bring it to Registrar Services, 115J Chubb Hall. We forward all deferment forms to the Clearinghouse. They will confirm your enrollment status has been sent to your lender. Ohio University does not provide this information directly to 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 for that term.

If you receive a collection letter from a servicer and you believe you should be in a deferred status, you should:

Call your lending agency to see if they received a deferment form 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 703-742-4200. 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 lenders and guarantors 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.

If you need assistance, e-mail service@studentclearinghouse.org

Myke Welch revised this page on July 22, 2009. Please e-mail comments or suggestions to registrar@ohiou.edu

Office of the University Registrar
Chubb Hall
Phone: 740.593.4191
Fax: 740.593.0216
e-mail: registrar@ohio.edu