You can update and adjust your masterplan as often as you like during your studies. Before graduation, you have to hand in your final, definitive masterplan with all the components you followed. The Board of Examiners will check your masterplan against the rules in the OER appendix. This page details how to prepare your masterplan for graduation.
After completion of the MSc programme students will receive their diploma. However, graduation requires some planning, starting at least two months before the desired graduation 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.
MSc programme degrees are handed out at the graduation ceremony. Graduation ceremonies are scheduled on the first Tuesday of almost every month. The ceremony lasts about 30 minutes per student and is held in the Faculty room at the Academiegebouw.
You should start your graduation request at least 6 weeks before your certification date. So a proposed certification date of X means starting your graduation procedure before X - 6 weeks and handing in your final grades no later than X. In the table below you can find the corresponding first possible ceremony option for this date.
| Final grade in by: | Certification date: | Start procedure no later than: | First possible ceremony date: |
|---|---|---|---|
| 29 Nov 2024 | 29 Nov 2024 | 18 Oct 2024 | 4 Feb 2025 |
| 20 Dec 2024 | 20 Dec 2024 | 8 Nov 2024 | 4 Feb 2025 |
| 31 Jan 2025 | 31 Jan 2025 | 20 Dec 2024 | 4 Mar 2025 |
| 28 Feb 2025 | 28 Feb 2025 | 15 Jan 2025 | 1 Apr 2025 |
| 31 Mar 2025 | 31 Mar 2025 | 17 Feb 2025 | 6 May 2025 |
| 30 Apr 2025 | 30 Apr 2025 | 19 Mar 2025 | 3 Jun 2025 |
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