A degree carries your name into your career and overseas study. Here's how name issues on it are handled.
Your degree and university mark sheets carry your name into employment verification, professional registration and study abroad. When the degree name differs from your Aadhaar or passport, it can hold up a job offer, a visa or an admission.
A university correction process handles genuine errors on its own records. A deliberate name change — after marriage or by choice — usually needs recognised proof such as a Gujarat Gazette, which you then use with the university and other authorities.
A degree or convocation certificate is corrected by the issuing university's examination/records section, not the gazette office. The Gujarat Gazette is your name proof; the university then runs its own procedure — an application, a fee, and sometimes surrender of the original certificate for reissue in the new name. Timelines vary widely between universities and can be slow, so start early if the degree is needed for a deadline.
The pitfall specific to higher education is the document set. Some universities correct the degree certificate but leave the mark sheets untouched, or the reverse. Employers, professional councils, and foreign universities check the whole set, so ask explicitly for every document to be reissued in the new name — degree, consolidated mark sheet, and provisional/migration certificates where they exist.
For overseas study or work this compounds: a later apostille or attestation is done on the corrected university documents, so any document left in the old name becomes a weak link in the chain. For example, an applicant heading abroad should get the degree and all mark sheets corrected and consistent with the gazette before beginning attestation, not after.
We help establish one consistent name and prepare the proof to support the university and passport updates. See our spelling correction and passport name change services. The university decides its own record correction under its rules.
Tell us your situation and we'll guide you on the right documentation — including whether a Gazette is even needed.
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Changing your name? We publish it in the Gujarat Gazette, start to finish — ₹3,000 all-inclusive (Express ₹5,500), published within 60 working days or a 100% refund.
Normal plan: your published Gujarat Gazette within 60 working days. Express: within 30 working days — counted from the working day after full payment is received and your application number is generated, and we confirm your exact end date in writing. Working days are days the Gazette Department, Rajkot is open; Sundays, 2nd and 4th Saturdays and Government of Gujarat public holidays are not counted. If we miss your window you get a 100% refund of your invoice within 24 hours — no deduction for the Government fee, e-stamp, notary or drafting — and we still deliver your Gazette at no further service charge. In practice most of our filed gazettes publish within about 15 days of filing. The full terms are sent with your quote, before you pay.
