Graduation

Whether or not you need to unenrol depends on when you graduated: 

• In June, July or August: your registration in Studielink will automatically expire on 31 August. 
• Between September and May: you must terminate your enrolment yourself via Studielink. Make sure that you deregister as soon as the last grade you need to obtain in order to graduate is registered in Osiris. This will ensure that you do not pay an extra month's tuition fees. You will be deregistered from the 1st of the month following the month in which you submit your deregistration request. So if your last result was registered in Osiris in April and you wish to deregister with effect from 1 May, you will have to do so by 30 April at the latest. Retroactive deregistration is not possible.

If you have any questions about your enrolment, please contact Student Services.

Continue your studies

Don't want to unenroll? After graduating, you can remain enrolled for the rest of the academic year or indicate in Studielink that you want to terminate your enrolment in a later month. Of course, this means you pay tuiton fees until then. Courses taken after your graduation will not be listed on your Diploma Supplement.

Postponing Graduation

Do you meet all graduation requirements but do you want to postpone graduation? This is only possible if you:

• are going to fulfill an administrative function for which an administrative grant is available at Utrecht University. Contact Student Services to make an appointment with one of the Student Deans, who can advise you on this.
• are going to follow study components abroad.
• are going to do an internship.
• will be taking courses that are required for admission to a master's programme (this is only applicable for current bachelor's students).

To postpone your graduation, you will have to submit a digital request of postponement to the Board of Examiners within 2 weeks after receiving your graduation email.

Diploma and IDS

As proof that you successfully completed your programme, you will receive a diploma as well as an International Diploma Supplement (IDS). The IDS lists, among other things, all  components of your programme and your grades. Your average grade is also printed. In order to make our grades understandable for foreign universities, we include Grading Tables. These show the frequency distribution of the grades awarded by our university. They visualise what percentage of all passing grades awarded in the past three years were a 6.0, a 6.5, a 7.0, and so on.

Graduation Ceremony

In Spring and in Autumn, your programme will organise a graduation ceremony in which you will receive your diploma. This means that quite some time may pass between your exam date and the ceremony. On Instagram, under the tag #proudUUalum, you can find posts from people who have already graduated (and of course you can use this tag yourself too when graduating!).

Are you unable to make it to the graduation ceremony? In that case, you can make an appointment to pick up your diploma at our Student Information Desk Humanities (5 days after the ceremony).

Graduation certificate

Approximately 4 weeks after you have graduated, you can request a statement of graduation from the DUO diploma register. This states your programme's name and the graduation date. You can use this declaration as proof of graduation, for example when you register for a subsequent course or apply for a job.

Cum Laude

The Education and Examination Regulations (EER) explain precisely what requirements you must meet in order to graduate with honours (Cum Laude). The Board of Examiners will determine whether you have met the criteria for the honours Cum Laude. Honours will be printed on your diploma and your Diploma Supplement.

Graduation Date

Your exam date is the last day of the month in which your last study result has been registered in Osiris. For example, if your last study result is registered on 23 April in Osiris, your graduation date will be 30 April. At the beginning of each month, the Board of Examiners checks who has met all the examination requirements of the study programme in the previous month, and then determines the graduation date. Results registered in Osiris after the graduation date will not count towards your degree, and will not be listed on the International Diploma Supplement (IDS).

If you are a non-EU/EEA student and hold a residence permit for study purposes, your residence permit is only valid as long as you are enrolled as a student at Utrecht University.