What is a Unique Student Identifier (USI)?
A USI is a personal alpha-numerical education number required for all nationally recognised study, including university and vocational education and training (VET).
Encourage your students, particularly those considering further studies beyond school to create their USI now.
A USI is required for most applications so get your students prepared before they apply. The process is simple and can be completed in less than 5 minutes using one form of identification, such as a birth certificate or driver’s licence.
Without a USI, higher education students will not be able to access a Commonwealth Supported Place, receive Commonwealth financial assistance such as a HELP loan graduate.
Students undertaking a nationally recognised VET course will not be able to receive their statement of attainment, qualification or award without a USI.
Students who may already have a USI but forgotten the details can find their USI by following a few simple steps.
Access USI VET transcripts
USI VET transcripts collate all nationally recognised training outcomes since 2015 into a single government authenticated record.
Students can use a VET transcript to:
- apply for a credit transfer
- demonstrate pre-requisites for future training
- backup original documentation
- show proof of qualifications to employers and others
- minimise unnecessary retraining.
Students can share their VET transcript with potential employers, Registered Training Organisations, licensing bodies and educational institutions easily. It can be customised and tailored to show specific training completed. It can also be shared as a physical printed copy or digitally via email, link or a QR code.
All students need to do is log in to their USI account via the USI Student Portal, follow the prompts and click share.
Registered Training Organisation (RTOs)
Accessing a student’s VET transcript can help RTOs with enrolments, credit transfers, entitlement assessments and troubleshooting VET transcript queries from students.
RTOs can update the student’s VET transcript training information using the USI Transcript Update Tool.
To access resources or find out more about the USI VET transcripts, visit our website.
