Collecting your diploma

Your diploma is the formal proof of your achievement. Congratulations with this important milestone! Depending on your graduation date, there are several options to collect your diploma.

Tip: please block the date of your graduation ceremony if you expect to graduate this academic year: Fr. 22 Nov. 2019 + Sat. 23 Nov. 2019.

2018-2019 Diploma options
Options depend on the formal graduation date. This is the last day of the month in which you handed in the last work and in which all requirements regarding results, registration and payment are met.
If your formal graduation date is before 31 July 2019:	You are welcome at the graduation ceremony, whether you already collected the diploma or not. You can: • Receive your diploma at the graduation ceremony >> • Collect your diploma at the FPN service desk>> • Receive your diploma by courier service >>
If your formal graduation date is 31 July or 31 August 2019:	The first opportunity to receive the diploma is at the graduation ceremony. >> Otherwise, after the ceremony: • Collect your diploma at the FPN service desk >> • Receive your diploma by courier service >>
If your formal graduation date is 30 September 2019:	You are welcome to attend the graduation ceremony. However, your diploma will not be ready in time, due to the diploma ordering and printing process. At the ceremony, you receive an empty diploma folder. You can: • Attend the graduation ceremony >> • Collect the diploma at the FPN service desk >> • Receive your diploma by courier service >>
If your formal graduation date is 31 October 2019 or thereafter:	You can: • Collect your diploma at the FPN service desk>> • Receive your diploma by courier service>> • Receive your diploma at the 2020 graduation ceremony.

1. Receive your diploma at the graduation ceremony

The nicest way to receive your diploma is to come to the ceremony with your family and friends. We will send an invitation to your UM email account about four weeks before the ceremony. If you graduation date is 30 September 2019 or earlier, you are welcome at the graduation ceremony. See Graduation Ceremony >>

2. Collect your diploma at the FPN service desk

Every month the Board of Examiners orders the diplomas for those graduating in September through June . Please take some weeks (appr. 4 weeks) of processing time into account. We will send you an email when your diploma is ready to be collected.

If your formal graduation date is 31 July 2019 or 31 August 2019, the first opportunity to get your diploma is at the graduation ceremony. After this event, it is also possible to collect your diploma at the FPN service desk.

To collect the diploma yourself:

Visit the Service Desk of the Education Office.

Bring this with you:
• valid ID (state issued ID card or passport, Dutch drivers license)
• your UM-card
• hard or soft copy of the email notice.

	If you want someone else to collect the diploma for you:
	1. 2.	Fill in the authorisation form. Send the signed and printed form, plus a copy of your ID, to the person who will collect your diploma.
	3.	Inform the Education Office that someone else will collect your diploma. Send a message via AskPsy and include: • your phone number + alternative phone number • the name of the person who will collect your diploma • when we can expect this person
	4.	To collect your diploma, he/she needs to show: • his/her valid ID (state issued ID card or passport, Dutch drivers license) • a printed version of the authorisation form • a printed version of your ID

3. Receive your diploma by mail (courier service)

* If your formal graduation date is 31 July or 31 August 2019, the first opportunity to get your diploma is at the graduation ceremony. After this event, it is also possible to receive your diploma by mail.

We offer the option to receive the diploma by mail (courier) at no additional charge. Contact the Education Office for detailed information.

Documents

Authorisation to collect diploma on behalf of stude
Dutch grading system explained for Bachelor
UM website: More on 'automatic graduation'

Last modified: Thu, 14/03/2019 - 16:31

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