Your name as it will be printed on your diploma and in the ceremony program, can be
seen in the box titled Graduation (see path listed above to find this information).
Your DIPLOMA NAME is your legal name on file in the MTSU student system at the time you submitted your Intent to Graduate form. All diploma name changes for May 2024 expected graduates must be submitted by Friday,
March 8, 2024. Diploma reprints due to a name change after the posted deadline are $30 per diploma.
You do NOT have to submit legal documentation if you are simply changing an existing
middle name to an initial, removing a middle or maiden name from your diploma name
or updating your diploma name based on an official name change completed after submission
of your Intent to Graduate. For this type of diploma name change, you can email records@mtsu.edu from your MTSU issued email. Please include your M number.
If you need to change your diploma name (for example, add a middle name, change a
last name, etc.), you must submit a name change form (you will log into your PipelineMT account to go to the form) and the required documentation.
Required documentation that will be accepted for a name change includes valid state issued driver’s license, state-issued identification card, passport
or permanent resident card. The purpose of this new dynamic Name Change form is to
allow for secure submission of documents for an official university name change.
IMPORTANT: After you receive the confirmation email that your MTSU system name has been changed,
you must then email records@mtsu.edu and indicate a diploma name change is also requested. Submitting the Name Change
form does not automatically update the diploma name. You may also choose to go in person to the MT OneStop to complete a paper name change
form with the accepted documentation as listed above.
If you are an International Student only International Affairs or the College of Graduate Studies may change your system name. If International Affairs or the College of Graduate Studies makes a change to your
system name you must then notify records@mtsu.edu to update your diploma name by the deadline.
