Replacement Diploma Service for Lost, Damaged, or Inaccessible Originals

A replica is the right answer when your use case is display, commemoration, backup, or prop. Common scenarios we see on a daily basis:

• The original was never collected. Many graduates move away before the school mails physical diplomas, and a decade later the document is still at the registrar.
• The original was lost in a move. Cross-country moves are the single most common cause of lost diplomas we hear about.
• The original was damaged. Flood, fire, basement humidity, a pet, a curious toddler, a leaking attic — paper is fragile.
• The original is archived. You keep it safe at home, in a safe-deposit box, or with a parent, and want an identical-looking replica to hang at work without risking the archival copy.
• You want the frame. The original is fine; you just want a matching replica for a second office, a vacation home, or a parent's wall of family achievements.

If your need is different — you need a legally issued duplicate for a background check, a license application, or an enrollment verification — the correct path is your school's registrar, the National Student Clearinghouse, or Parchment. Our replacement service is for novelty, replacement, and display purposes and is not a substitute for an officially issued credential.

What your replacement includes

Every replacement diploma ordered through DiplomaCraft arrives with the same production values:

• Heavyweight acid-free parchment selected for archival longevity. The paper is the same grade recommended for storing original academic credentials long-term.
• Foil-printed metallic seal foil-printed onto the sheet — not a sticker, not a flat print. The seal is metallic and catches the light the way an original does.
• Typography matched to academic convention. Serif headings, italic name typesetting, ceremonial phrasing, and signature placements drawn from the layouts US institutions have used for decades.
• Your choice of layout — portrait or landscape, modern or traditional, state-university conventions or private-institution conventions.
• Real-time preview before checkout so the document you approve is the document that arrives.

Delivery is available as an instant digital PDF (delivered immediately after payment), standard physical (free USPS Standard Mail in 5–7 business days, with optional Priority Mail, UPS 2-Day, or UPS Next Day upgrades), or a bundle combining digital and physical. A bundle keeps a backup copy on your device while the printed copy arrives via your chosen shipping speed.

Price anchors

Replacement pricing varies by product type and delivery tier. High school diplomas start at $59.99 (digital), $79.99 (standard physical), or $89.99 (bundle). College and university diplomas run $69.99–$99.99 across tiers, and specialty graduate diplomas (law, medical, nursing) range $99.99–$129.99. Transcripts and certificates follow the same tiering. Full pricing details live on the pricing page.

Compared to an official reissue from a university registrar, which typically runs $30–$100 plus four-to-eight weeks of processing time, a replica is in a different category altogether: we are not a substitute for the official reissue, but if you also need to see something framed this week, we are the short path.

The replacement diploma order flow

1. Find your document type. High school, GED, college, associate's, bachelor's, master's, law school, medical school, nursing school, or a custom design. Transcripts live under the transcripts category.
2. Enter the details as you remember them. Institution, full name, graduation date, degree conferred, honors, minor if applicable. Transcripts let you edit each course, credit hour, and letter grade individually.
3. Review the live preview. This is the moment to catch spacing, punctuation in a school name, or an off-by-one graduation year.
4. Pick delivery and checkout. Digital, physical, or bundle. Payment is encrypted; we don't store card data on our servers.

If your original had an unusual layout — a less common seal, a state-specific format, a bilingual phrase — the custom order flow lets you upload a reference image and our designers will replicate it within two business days.

Sourcing the right details for your replica

Customers often ask how to recall precise details when the original is missing. A few practical places to check:

• Old transcripts that may still live in your email, a school portal account you can still access, or a parent's records folder. They often list your conferred degree and exact graduation date.
• Yearbook and commencement programmes which list graduates, degrees, and honors.
• LinkedIn education history — many people entered their own data at the time and it is surprisingly accurate.
• The school registrar if you can reach them quickly for confirmation of date and degree type. (For official documents, this is also where you would request a real replacement.)

For some customers a replica is a bridge — ordered while the registrar processes the official reissue, so a frame doesn't sit empty for eight weeks. For others a replica is permanent, sitting in the home office while the original lives archival-safe elsewhere. Either use case is a fit for what we do.

Start your replacement

Pick the document closest to what you're replacing. You'll be in the live preview in under a minute.

• Replacement high school diploma — $59.99
• Replacement college diploma — $69.99
• Replacement bachelor's degree
• Replacement master's degree
• Specialty graduate diplomas — law, medical, nursing

For questions before you order, see our FAQ or contact us.