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Academic Records (NAD) API Integration

Verify degrees, marksheets and academic awards directly against the National Academic Depository.

Provider
National Academic Depository
Version
v1.0
Uptime
99.82%
Latency
380 ms
Access
Public
MarksheetDegree

What Academic Records (NAD) API integration does

The National Academic Depository holds degrees, marksheets and academic awards deposited by issuing institutions. Verification checks a credential directly against that depository record.

The alternative is genuinely bad. Writing to a university registrar takes weeks, the reply is a letter that is itself forgeable, and at hiring volume the process is simply not run for most candidates — which is why credential fraud persists at the rate it does. NAD integration turns a multi-week background-check task into a call that returns while the candidate is still in the application flow, which means it can be run on everyone rather than on a sample.

What teams build with it

Pre-employment screening

Verify a candidate's degree and marksheets against the depository during onboarding rather than weeks after joining.

Admissions verification

Confirm prior qualifications at application time instead of admitting provisionally and verifying later.

Professional registration

Verify qualifications for licensing, empanelment or professional body registration.

Scholarship eligibility

Confirm academic records for scholarship, grant or scheme eligibility decisions.

Endpoints included

  • POST/nad/v1/verify
    Confirms the authenticity of an academic award.

Try it in the sandbox

Confirms the authenticity of an academic award.
POSThttps://sandbox.aeologic.io/nad/v1/verify
Requestapplication/json
{
  "award_id": "NAD-CBSE-2010-XII-0098213"
}
Response
Run the sample to see a live response
Returns masked / synthetic data in Sandbox

What you need before we start

  • Candidate or learner identifiers for the credentials to verify
  • Consent for academic record verification
  • A defined path for credentials not present in the depository

How we deliver it

  1. Scoping of the credential types in your screening flow
  2. Sandbox integration with synthetic academic records
  3. Fallback design for not-found results
  4. Production access sized to screening volume

Industries using Academic Records (NAD)

Academic Records (NAD) API integration — FAQs

What can be verified through NAD?

Degrees, marksheets and academic awards that the issuing institution has deposited into the National Academic Depository.

What if a credential is not in the depository?

The API returns a clear not-found result rather than a false negative, and your flow falls back to manual verification for that candidate.

Is learner consent required?

Yes. These are consent-based rails and verification runs against a record the learner has made available.

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