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Your Alumni Network

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Stay Connected

Welcome to all graduates of ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø and our predecessor institutions. 

We are proud of this inspiring global community which has inducted graduates since the nineteenth century. We want to share your stories, celebrate your successes, and keep you connected.

One of the best ways of staying connected is by engaging with the communications we’ll send you. As long as we have your updated information, we’ll keep in touch with news, updates and invites through digital newsletters. You can also keep informed about what’s going on here by following us over on our social media channels and visiting our Newsroom.

From time-to-time we may ask you to contribute to supporting us through various activities such as providing case studies or guest lectures. If you would like to contribute, get in touch.

Honouring Our Past

We are here to support and provide you with a service long after you’ve graduated. Why not take advantage of the many benefits still available to you as alumni.

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There’s always a warm welcome awaiting you back on your campus of study. Whether training or networking events, careers fairs, or reunions, we love to see former classmates and staff catching up.

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We’ll want to know what you are up to so that we can celebrate your accomplishments and get a clear picture of the varied careers paths your degree programmes have led you to.

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You may describe your time here as some of the best years of your life, so why not make that a reality for others by giving something back to the University.

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Associations like the Lampeter Society exist to support the University’s alumni activities with certain groups or campuses.

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Your Alumni magazine

Belonging is the annual magazine for alumni of ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø and its predecessor institutions. In this magazine you will find the latest news and developments from this past year, including news on research, our campuses and from our graduates.

Belonging 2024 is out now! Download it as a digital version or request your free copy through the post.

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Honouring Our Past

Today we are ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø but there’s a whole lot of history to this institution, and our alumni team always aim to honour this by celebrating past and future developments. Find out more about our predecessor institutions on our page.

Our Special Collections and Archives team also commemorate this extensive history through physical and online exhibitions, and some of our preceding colleges’ archives are held by the team on the Lampeter campus. If you have questions or would like to see the archives, get in touch.

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Certificate and Transcript Requests

Need to get hold of your transcript, award confirmation letter, or new certificate? Get in touch with Registry. Please be aware that it can take up to eight weeks to receive your certificate.

  • If the Certificate/Diploma you were issued was not produced by this University (or its predecessor colleges), you will need to contact the Examination Board that issued the certificate in the first place (BTEC, Edexcel, UW, UWE, City & Guilds, WJEC etc.) for a replacement. We can only issue replacement certificates issued by this University (or its predecessor colleges). If you are looking for confirmation of the achievement of a certificate or diploma, see the Transcript request details, which also apply to requests for Confirmation of Awards or Attendance. Please note that any HND/HNC/OND/ONC certificate issued prior to the creation of BEC and TEC (later BTEC) cannot now be provided by any organisation, as the Awarding Bodies that issued those certificates no longer exist. If you attended and achieved one of those qualifications prior to 1980, you should apply for a confirmation letter, not a replacement certificate.

    • Certificates for University of Wales Awards

    The University of Wales will issue replacement certificates only in specific circumstances. Details of those circumstances and an application form can be 

    • BTEC Certificates and Diplomas from January 1983 – May 2005

    Replacement Certificates are 

    • WJEC Certificates

    Replacement Certificates are 

    • City and Guilds Certificates

    Replacement Certificates are  

    • University of the West of England (or Bristol Polytechnic)

    Replacement Certificates are 

    • CNAA

    The Council for National Academic Awards [CNAA] was the largest single degree-awarding body in the United Kingdom until it was abolished by the 1992 UK Further and Higher Education Act. The Open University Validation Services accepted responsibility for the care and maintenance of certain CNAA records and for providing appropriate access to them. Although it is not possible for OUVS, or any other body, to provide certificates or to issue a duplicate or replacement certificates relating to CNAA awards, it does offer a Pro-forma verification document styled in a similar format to an award certificate.  

    • Certificates/Diplomas produced by the University

    We will issue replacement certificates only in the circumstances set out below. Temporarily mislaying a certificate is not considered sufficient grounds for replacement.

    • Applications for replacement certificates will be granted provided that the student submits a signed statement confirming that the original certificate has either been lost or destroyed. A fee of £30.00 (inclusive of VAT and postage) will be charged. Cheques should be made out to ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø and submitted to the Registry at Swansea campus, together with a completed and signed form.
    • The following charges apply from 1 April 2012:
      • Standard Charges (including VAT at the appropriate rate and second class postage)
      • Replacement Certificate (one only) Â£30.00
      • Supplementary Charges (including VAT at the appropriate rate and second class postage)
      • Posting overseas Â£5.00
      • If sent by Courier company £30.00 per address
    • In the case that a certificate has been damaged, the certificate should be returned to the Registry at Swansea campus and, at the discretion of the Registry, a new one will be issued free of charge.
    • Replacement certificates will be dispatched within 28 working days from the receipt of the signed declaration on the attached form.
    • One copy of your final transcript (the full record of your academic study) is issued free by the Registry on completion of your programme of study (via a Diploma Supplement) or on withdrawal from your programme of study if requested.
    • You may request additional copies of your final transcript by following the procedure detailed below. Payment must be made with your order. You will have to complete the form for Academic Transcripts and submit the correct fee before the documents can be supplied.
    • The following charges apply from 1 September 2012:
      • Standard Charges (including VAT at the appropriate rate and second class postage
      • First Copy (Award October 2005 or after) Â£10.00
      • First Copy (Award September 2005 or before) Â£30.00
      • Additional Copies (if ordered at the same time) £5.00 per copy
      • Supplementary Charges (including VAT at the appropriate rate and second class postage)
      • Posting overseas for Â£5.00
      • If sent to more than one address £5.00 per additional address
      • If sent by Courier company £30.00 per address
    • It will normally take up to 3 weeks to receive your transcript, once your form has been received and processed; assuming your payment details have been cleared immediately.
    • If you studied here in or before 2000, your request may take longer to process. You are advised that Swansea Metropolitan University cannot guarantee that Swansea Institute of Higher Education, West Glamorgan Institute of Higher Education, Swansea College of Technology, Swansea College of Art or Swansea College of Education records will have survived for the year of your award. In particular the College of Art records are very patchy and all college records for the years 1981-1987 may not exist. The search fee is un-refundable.
    • It is not always possible to supply a full breakdown of individual marks or %, as regulations of some examination boards prohibit this, and in such cases, that information is not always available in the Archive records. In such instances, you will be given an overall result and modules with be shown as P(ass), M(erit) or D(instinction).
    • If you only want confirmation of the award you gained and the dates you attended, this will be done via a ‘To Whom It Concern’ Letter, on SMU headed paper. Such letters are generally recognised as confirmation that you did gain a specific qualification, at a particular time, but they are not recognised as certificates. If you have lost your certificate or diploma you should apply for a replacement. See the SMU Request for a Replacement Certificate/Diploma Form for full details.
    • Transcripts/Letters may be collected if you let us know in advance, or will be sent out by post.
    • If you discover that a prospective employer, other University or educational establishment or other external body (e.g. the Australian Immigration Service) requires details of the programme or module(s) content, in addition to the detail recorded on the transcript, please contact the University Records and Archives Office. If available, details for most programmes can be provided, although there is a charge (see below). Copyright issues may prevent supplying the whole document, but syllabus and module detail can be supplied.
    • Syllabus/Programme Content/Module Details £25.00 per set