Application for Degree Certificate
Application for Degree Certificate
When you have completed all the required courses for your degree, you should apply for a transcript of records (studieutdrag) from the Service Point (Helsinki) or the Office of Study Affairs (Vaasa) and check that all courses have been correctly noted. To apply for your Degree Certificate (betyg), please fill out the application form and submit it to the Service Point in Helsinki or Britt-Mari Siironen in Vaasa, together with the above-mentioned transcript of records. You can apply for the degree certificate before your thesis has been approved if all the other courses have been registered. A certificate from the library certifying that you do not have any outstanding loans should also be enclosed to your application for the degree certificate. Please note that you can not cancel your application for degree certificate.
When you graduate, you will receive the degree certificate and a transcript of records as well as a Diploma Supplement in English that provides a description of your degree and the Finnish higher education system. Both the degree certificate, incl. transcript of records, and the diploma supplement are free of charge.
Diploma Supplement
All graduating students automatically receive a Diploma Supplement free of charge. The Diploma Supplement is a document for international use and follows the model developed by the European Commission, Council of Europe and UNESCO/CEPES. It provides a description of the degree in question and how the degree is positioned within the Finnish higher education system. The Diploma Supplement also contains an English-language transcript of records.
Graduation Dates 2012
In Helsinki at 3 p.m., in Vaasa at 2 p.m.
| Application for Diploma by | Graduation date
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| Friday 27 January
| Friday 17 February
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| Friday 2 March
| Friday 23 March
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| Thursday 5 April
| Friday 27 April
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| Friday 4 May | Friday 25 May |
| Tuesday 29 May | Tuesday 19 June
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| Friday 31 August
| Friday 21 September
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| Friday 28 September
| Friday 19 October
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| Friday 26 October
| Friday 16 November
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| Tuesday 27 November
| Tuesday 18 December
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Graduation
There is a small graduation event on each graduation day, where the Rector or the Vice-rector hands out the degree certificates. In addition to the degree certificates, the graduates receive a Diploma Supplement in English. The graduation event is for the graduating students only. You will receive an e-mail invitation to the graduation event one week before the graduation day.
Please note that we do not send the original degree certificates by mail. If you cannot attend the graduation event, you can collect the degree certificate at the ServicePoint in Helsinki or the Office of Study Affairs in Vaasa after the graduation day.
Graduation Ceremony
A graduation ceremony, Solemn Conferment of Master's Degrees, which all the students who have been awarded the Master's Degree during the year can attend, will be held on Friday 18 November 2011 in Helsinki. This is the festive part of graduation where you also receive a certificate entitling you to use the professional title "ekonom" in Finland. For further information, please contact jennie.bertula(a)hanken.fi
You will receive an invitation to this occasion by mail.
Form for the application for degree certificate
- Application for Diploma, M.Sc. [docx] 352k
- Electronic Questionnaire for recent graduates, M.Sc. (Helsinki)
Vaasa
Electronic Questionnaire for recent graduates, M.Sc. (Vaasa)