Iowa Code § 264.4: Transcripts.

The registrar of the state university shall prepare transcripts of such scholastic records and when requested to do so the registrar must furnish a copy of the said transcript to a former student. Whenever such transcript is made and after it has been compared with the original it shall be certified by the registrar of the state university, and thereafter it shall be considered and accepted as evidence for all purposes the same as the original would be.