Scholarships & applications
Replace transcript and enrollment-letter checks with an institution-signed login, cutting review time from weeks to seconds.
The problem
Every scholarship application, fellowship, and student-exchange program needs to confirm enrollment and identity. That means collecting enrollment letters, transcripts, and ID uploads — then paying humans to check them. It is slow (weeks), costly, and full of fraud risk: forged letters, doctored transcripts, and synthetic documents are a real industry.
The Studid way
Studid replaces document checks with a cryptographic proof: the applicant logs in at their own university, and the university returns a signed assertion. Your review team gets a definitive answer in seconds instead of weeks — and there is nothing to forge.
Your integration:
- Create a verification —
POST /v2/auth/verificationwith the applicant's session - Redirect the applicant to their university login through Studid
- Check the result — the session proves which institution the applicant belongs to and how
What you get
entityId— the applicant's institution, digitally vouched for by the university's IdPauthIdentifier— a persistent identifier to match applications to applicantsaffiliations— role (student, faculty, staff) when the IdP releases it
Why it works for applications
- Fraud-resistant — a university-signed assertion is a stronger proof than any document a human can review
- Instant review — no document queues, no manual lookups, no back-and-forth for "my letter was rejected"
- Privacy-preserving — applicants never upload transcripts or IDs; the university reveals the minimum needed
- Auditable — every verification has an ID you can trace end-to-end
Compliance note: for legal compliance across jurisdictions (GDPR, CCPA, COPPA) we recommend a minimum age of 16+ for your users. Studid stores no documents and never sees passwords.
Get started
See the integration guide for the full API walkthrough, or try the live demo and verify a real institutional login in under a minute.
Works even without a persistent user ID
Some institutions only issue a transient identifier, so authIdentifier can be null. That is a normal outcome, not a failed login: the user still authenticated at a real institution, and entityId always proves which one. Use it for eligibility and bind the result to your own session token for continuity.
Ready to try it?
Authenticate with your university or research institute — no account needed, takes under a minute.