Apply for graduation
After completion of the MSc programme students will receive their diploma. However, you have to request your graduation yourself. This requires some planning, starting at least two months before the desired graduation date!
The formal certification date (i.e. the date printed on the diploma) is the last working day of the month in which a student completes the last study component of the MSc programme. After certification, the formal graduation ceremony can be scheduled on the next available graduation date. The graduation dates are listed in the graduation calendar . Graduates do not need to be enrolled as a student on the date of the graduation ceremony.
Your request for graduation must include a masterplan. You can create a pdf of you masterplan on this website by using the 'printer-friendly version' button. The masterplan will be checked and signed for approval by the secretary of the Board of Examiners.
On the graduation request from, mention the status of any grades that are not yet in at the time of your graduation request. All grades have to be handed in no later than the last working day of the month (the requested certification date!). It is the student's own responsibility to keep track of all their grades (courses and research projects) and make sure everything is registered correctly in uSis and MyStudyMap. The last month of your studies, you can end the Studielink registration at the University (see instructions below).
The first option for a graduation ceremony is one full month after the graduation date. For further details contact the study coordinator (msc-coordinator@lic.leidenuniv.nl ).
The Science Student Administration (SSA) checks your results in uSis and MyStudyMap against the provided masterplan. Any courses that are not included in the masterplan will not be included on your diploma supplement.chemlst-admin@science.leidenuniv.nl .
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The student will be informed about the exact time and place of the graduation ceremony .
If you have any questions regarding the guidelines on this page, just send an email to msc-coordinator@lic.leidenuniv.nl . Note that the graduation procedure's deadlines are very strict! Do not wait until all your grades are known to inform us about your wish to graduate –many people are involved in this process.
Please note:
If you do not have all documentation complete yet, just send what you have with a note what is missing. You have until the certification date to hand in everything.Any student who is planning on wrapping up their master’s in summer is requested to start the procedure even earlier than normal: it will enable the SSA/the administration to spread their huge workload during summer months.For students following the WORK programme (started from Sept 2019): Even though there are no EC credits associated with WORK, it still is a mandatory study component. You will not graduate until you complete the full the WORK programme! Plan ahead and ideally follow the graduates session at the latest one month before you complete your final study component. If you are unable to attend a graduates session, email msc-coordinator@lic.leidenuniv.nl detailing the reason why you cannot attend to discuss the options for an alternative.
If you do not want to graduate but have obtained all your results and are eligible for graduation, you can request postponement of graduation with the board of Examiners. To do this, you can use the webform .
The Board of Examiners shall accommodate the request if the student has been enrolled in the programme for which the request has been submitted for no longer than the duration of studies plus one year and with legitimate reason. If you have already passed this duration your request will most likely not be approved.
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