Armenian Diplomas, School Certificates and Academic Documents for Study, Work and Recognition

Recognition of Armenian diplomas in Georgia

A degree from Yerevan State University, the Armenian State Medical University, the National Polytechnic University, the American University of Armenia or any other Armenian institution used in Georgia for employment, for a work-based residence permit, for admission to a Georgian master's or Ph.D. program, or for a regulated profession, goes through recognition at the National Center for Educational Quality Enhancement. The center requires the diploma and the annex (ներդիր) with notarized Georgian translations, and in practice asks for an apostille from the Armenian Ministry of Education. Armenian diplomas since the mid-2000s are often bilingual Armenian-English, which simplifies the work; older ones are Armenian-Russian or Soviet-era Russian. The annex matters most, because every course, its credits and its grade must be translated consistently and completely. We keep glossaries for the main Armenian universities so terminology stays stable from one applicant to the next.

Medical, dental and pharmacy graduates from Armenia

Doctors, dentists and pharmacists from the Armenian State Medical University and other Armenian institutions who want to practice in Georgia face the most document-heavy recognition. Beyond the diploma and annex, the process typically asks for the internship and residency (օրդինատուրա) certificates, specialist certificates, records of continuing education, the Armenian license, and sometimes course syllabi for comparison of clinical hours. Each is translated and notarized, and the apostille question is checked for each document type. Our medical translators, who are physicians themselves, translate clinical course names using the terminology of Georgian medical faculties, which speeds up the committee's comparison. Nurses follow a similar route with college diplomas and qualification certificates.

Enrolling children: Armenian-language schools in Georgia and school transfers

Georgia has Armenian-language public schools in Tbilisi and throughout Samtskhe-Javakheti and Kvemo Kartli, and families moving between Armenia and Georgia or between Armenian-language and Georgian-language schools present the child's previous school records: the personal file extract, yearly grade reports, the basic education certificate for 9th-grade graduates, the attestation for older students, and vaccination records. Schools generally accept certified translations with our stamp for placement; the Ministry of Education's procedure for recognizing prior schooling requires notarized ones. When families move from Georgia to Armenia, we translate Georgian school records into Armenian so the child is placed in the right year, and Georgian citizens from Javakheti applying to Armenian universities need their Georgian attestations translated into Armenian and apostilled.

University admission in Georgia and Armenia

Armenian students entering Georgian universities - in Georgian-language programs, in Russian-language programs and increasingly in English-language medical, IT and business programs - need a notarized Georgian translation of the school certificate with its annex, or of the previous degree for master's admission, and of the passport and police clearance certificate for the student residence permit. Georgian citizens from Javakheti and Georgian graduates applying to Armenian universities - Yerevan State, the American University of Armenia, the medical university - need Georgian attestations and diplomas translated into Armenian, notarized and apostilled. Student status letters are translated in both directions for consulates, military registration offices, banks and family benefit applications. We turn admission sets around within a day, because admission windows in both countries are short.

Georgian diplomas for Armenia

Georgian graduates going to Armenia, and Armenian students who completed a Georgian degree and are returning, take their diplomas to Armenian universities, employers and the Ministry of Education's recognition procedure. The Georgian diploma and supplement are translated into Armenian and notarized here, and apostilled through the education verification route, which we obtain; some Armenian notaries re-certify the translation locally on arrival, which a representative can do using our text. Medical graduates of Georgian universities returning to Armenia should expect to translate clinical rotation records and internship certificates in addition to the diploma. Georgian school records for children returning to Armenian schools are translated with the grading system explained.

Motivation letters, CVs, recommendations, academic writing and timing

Beyond certificates, Armenian applicants ask us to translate or edit motivation letters and CVs for Georgian and international programs, to translate recommendation letters from Armenian professors into English or Georgian while preserving the signature block, and to translate research summaries and publication lists for doctoral applications. Georgian and Armenian academics collaborating across the border use our editors for abstracts and papers in either language. These texts are handled by editors with academic backgrounds, with tracked changes returned so the author can see the reasoning.

On timing: the translation is the fast part, usually one business day for a full diploma packet. The slow part is the Armenian apostille, obtained from the Ministry of Education by a relative or through the embassy, which can take a week or two. Start it early, send us a scan so the translation is ready when the paper arrives, and keep the apostilled diploma safe, because it is reusable for every future employer and university.

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