The Office of the Registrar (OTR) manages, protects, and verifies current and historical student academic records at the University of Minnesota. We provide comprehensive training and support on processes related to student records, transfers, and enrollment across all five campuses. Our mission is to ensure accuracy and integrity, protect student data, and enforce the standards set by University policies and procedures and state and federal laws.
To learn more about OTR's leadership, see the Leadership page.
Our unit's impact
Our teams
The following teams are under the Enterprise Application Services Unit:
Catalog & Curriculum Management (APAS/GPAS/TES)
The Catalog & Curriculum Management team includes those who support our degree audit applications (APAS and GPAS), transfer evaluation system (TES), and Course setup via Coursedog.
The Degree Audit team (APAS/GPAS) maintains undergraduate and graduate degree audits for all degrees, majors, minors, and certificates to provide transparency around student degree progress.
Degree audit team email: [email protected] (for APAS) and [email protected] (for GPAS)
The Transfer Evaluation System (TES) team manages TES workflow, updates uAchieve student records, and maintains transfer guides and Transferology.
TES team email: [email protected]
The Coursedog Course Setup team supports the creation of new and maintenance of existing courses, course equivalencies, and course prerequisites.
Modern Campus Lifelong Learning (formerly DORS)
Modern Campus Lifelong Learning (formerly DORS–Destiny One) team manages courses, conferences, and other learning experiences for non-traditional higher education that do not bear formal academic credit. Learn more about the DORS team on the DORS website.
Email: [email protected]
Data Quality & Reporting (QA)
The Data Quality and Reporting team develops queries and other tools to identify and correct student records data errors. We also perform mass updates to students’ records, such as milestone and service indicator updates, degree posting, and repeated class processing.
Email: [email protected]
The following teams are under the Academic & Student Services Unit:
Records & Enrollment
The Records and Enrollment team maintains the integrity of undergraduate, graduate, and professional records, degree clearance and posting, electronic thesis/dissertation submissions, and reviews and approves residency reclassification applications, multi-institutional enrollment requests, and Big Ten Academic Alliance (BTAA) Courseshare enrollments.
Email: [email protected]
Service operations
The Service Operations team provides comprehensive training, production support, and documentation for PeopleSoft Campus Solutions and related web applications on all University of Minnesota campuses. We manage and maintain historical University student records, document imaging, resolution of duplicate IDs, and support NCAA student athlete certifications. We also manage physical diplomas, digital diplomas, and transcripts systemwide.
Email: [email protected]