Apply for graduation

Before completing the MSc programme, you must request your graduation yourself. Request your graduation at least two months before your desired graduation date or by 30 April when graduating in June, July or August. 

The certification date (printed on your diploma) is the last working day of the month in which you finish your final course or perform your last act as a student. After the certification date, you will receive an invite to your gradaution ceremony on the next available date in the graduation calendar. You do not need to be enrolled on the ceremony date.

The graduation procedure

Your request for graduation must include a masterplan. See 'Defining a masterplan for graduation' for details and instruction.

On the graduation request from, mention the status of any grades that are not yet in at the time of your graduation request. The student must have completed and submitted their final component by the requested certification date (the last working day of the month!). It is the student's own responsibility to make sure all grades are registered correctly in uSis and MyStudyMap.
During the last month of your studies, you can end the Studielink registration at the University (see instructions below).

The first date for a graduation ceremony can be found here.

To apply for graduation: click here.

The student will be informed about the exact procedure, time and place of the graduation ceremony after their graduation date. 

Important notices

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.

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 by 30 April: it will enable the 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. 
Postponing graduation

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 within five days of the graudation date. You can do this here.

To apply for graduation: click here.

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Instruction - Request for termination of enrolment