Check if your university or college can award a degree: Overview - GOV.UK Cookies on GOV.UK We use some essential cookies to make this website work. We’d like to set additional cookies to understand how you use GOV.UK, remember your settings and improve government services. We also use cookies set by other sites to help us deliver content from their services. You have accepted additional cookies. You can change your cookie settings at any time. You have rejected additional cookies. You can change your cookie settings at any time. View cookies Check if your university or college can award a degree Skip contents Overview You can check if a degree you’re studying for is officially recognised. If your degree is not officially recognised, employers or universities might not accept it. Not all colleges that teach degrees can award them. Your degree might be awarded by a higher education institution that’s different from the place you’re studying. If you’re not sure who awards your degree, ask your college or check their website or prospectus. You can double check this with the higher education institution you’re told awards your degree. How you check if your degree is officially recognised depends on where you study. If you study in England Your degree will be officially recognised if: the higher education institute can award degrees - you can check on the Office for Students ( OfS ) Register it’s on the list of recognised awards it’s awarded by the Royal College of Nursing it’s awarded by the Archbishop of Canterbury If you have any questions Email OfS providerverification@officeforstudents.org.uk If you study in Northern Ireland Your degree will be officially recognised if it’s on either: the Northern Ireland Executive’s list of recognised and listed bodies the list of recognised awards If you have any questions Email the Northern Ireland Executive hepolicy@economy-ni.gov.uk If you study in Scotland Your degree will be officially recognised if it’s on either: the Scottish Government’s list of recognised and listed bodies the list of recognised awards If you have any questions Contact the Scottish Government central enquiry unit If you study in Wales Your degree will be officially recognised if it’s either: awarded by an institution on the list of recognised bodies in Wales on the list of recognised awards If you have any questions Email the Welsh Government at customerhelp@gov.wales View a printable version of the whole guide Related content Is this page useful? Maybe Thank you for your feedback Help us improve GOV.UK To help us improve GOV.UK, we’d like to know more about your visit today. Please fill in this survey (opens in a new tab