Information on applying for your degree certificate can be found on this page at student.uva.nl. Make sure you apply for your degree certificate before 1 July.

You must graduate from your (Bachelor's) programme by 31 August at the latest. The Admissions Office will manually check whether you have graduated during August. You do not have to do anything for this. Once this has been checked, your conditional admission will be converted into a definitive admission.

If you will obtain or have obtained your Bachelor's degree at a Dutch university, you don't have to submit certified documents to show proof of your graduation. You do need to inform us about your graduation via the form below, so that we will be able to verify it.

The deadline to inform us of your graduation is 31 August 2025. So make sure you have taken the right steps with your educational institution to officially graduate well before this deadline. If you fail to do this, if you do not graduate before 31 August and/or if you have not submitted the above form before 31 August, your application will not be finalised and you will not be able to start the Master's programme.

It may take several weeks for your university to register your graduation. Have you completed all courses of your Bachelor's programme, but is your graduation not yet registered? Then we also accept a graduation statement, sent by an official representative of your university. They can send a graduation statement to: certifieddocumentsma-fgw@uva.nl. The document should be on official letterhead of your home institution and has to contain the following information:

• First (given) name and Last name;
• Date of birth;
• Country of birth;
• Current Bachelor’s education;
• That you have completely fulfilled all graduation requirements from your Bachelor’s and/or Master’s programme;
• Firm graduation date (note: this has to be any date before 1 September 2025. ‘Expected’ or 'provisional' graduation dates are not accepted);
• Stamp and signature from a representative of your home institution.

Without proof of graduation, your enrolment cannot be finalised and you will not be able to start your (pre-)Master’s programme in September.

Deadline for submitting proof of graduation: 1 August 2025

If you obtain or have obtained your Bachelor's diploma at a non-Dutch university, you need to submit the following certified documents before 1 August:

• Certified copies of your original higher education diploma(s)
• Certified copies of your original final transcript(s)

Please note that:

• Documents that are not written in Dutch, English, German or French, must be accompanied by an official translation to English made by a sworn translator or a notary.
• You have to send in certified documents of all previous (Bachelor's and/or Master's) programmes that you applied with. More information on which documents to send and what deadline applies to you can be found in your conditional admission letter sent by the admissions office.

Graduation statement

If your diploma will not be issued before the stipulated deadline of 1 August, you can submit a graduation statement instead. In this graduation statement, your university needs to declare that you have fulfilled all graduation requirements and have graduated from your (Bachelor's or Master's) degree programme, stating your exact graduation date. This graduation date cannot be later than 31 August 2025. The document should be on official letterhead of your home institution and has to contain the following information:

• First (given) name and Last name;
• Date of birth;
• Country of birth;
• Current Bachelor’s education;
• That you have completely fulfilled all graduation requirements from your Bachelor’s and/or Master’s programme;
• Firm graduation date (note: this has to be any date before 1 September 2025. ‘Expected’ or 'provisional' graduation dates are not accepted);
• Stamp and signature from a representative of your home institution.

We accept certified documents sent to us through a secure portal, such as: Parchment, Digitary, Hear, E-Script, Gradintelligence, CSSD (formerly CHESICC), etc. You can send these documents through a secure portal to the following e-mail: certifieddocumentsma-fgw@uva.nl. Please note: we can only accept certified documents sent by students if they are submitted through a secure portal.

Unsure whether your university's secure portal is accepted? Contact us.

We accept certified documents sent to us by an authorised official at your home institution (such as the Registrar’s Office).
Please ask the authorised department to send your certified documents to certifieddocumentsma-fgw@uva.nl. 

Important:  We do not accept digital documents sent to us by students and/or from a student email address.