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, you have to request your graduation yourself. This requires some planning, starting at least two months before the desired graduation date!
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: |
|---|---|---|---|
| 30 Sep 2025 | 30 Sep 2025 | 18 Aug 2025 | 4 Nov 2025 |
| 31 Oct 2025 | 31 Oct 2025 | 15 Sep 2025 | 2 Dec 2025 |
| 28 Nov 2025 | 28 Nov 2025 | 15 Oct 2025 | 3 Feb 2026 |
| 19 Dec 2025 | 19 Dec 2025 | 17 Nov 2025 | 3 Feb 2026 |
| 30 Jan 2026 | 30 Jan 2026 | 15 Dec 2025 | 3 Mar 2026 |
| 27 Feb 2026 | 27 Feb 2026 | 15 Jan 2026 | 7 Apr 2026 |
| 31 Mar 2026 | 31 Mar 2026 | 16 Feb 2026 | 12 May 2026 |
| 30 Apr 2026 | 30 Apr 2026 | 16 Mar 2026 | 2 Jun 2026 |
| 29 May 2026 | 29 May 2026 | 15 Apr 2026 | 1 Sep 2026 |
| 30 Jun 2026 | 30 Jun 2026 | 15 May 2026 | 1 Sep 2026 |
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