Graduation schedules
The graduation schedule depends on the time all the student’s studies have been registered in the academic record and the date of the application request in the SISU system. Please note that you can submit a graduation request and graduate at any time during the academic year. Certificates are delivered in one to three weeks from the submission of the date of the graduation request. During holidays, the processing of graduation requests may take longer than usual. Confirm the exact schedule from your faculty or degree programme.
Please also see the following pages:
Graduation in autumn semester 2024
Graduation is applied via the Sisu system. At the time of application, all the studies in the degree must be completed including the thesis and maturity test. The student's study plan also needs to be in order and any custom course unit attainments must be approved. A notification will appear in Sisu when you have completed all required studies and graduation is possible. Only a student who has enrolled as present can graduate.
The graduation day recorded on the diploma is the day when the request for graduation has been received and it has been verified that the student has completed all the studies included in the degree. In practice, the date of graduation is thus usually the date of the graduation application. If study attainments that are part of the degree are entered in the student’s academic record after graduation request, the day of graduation will be the day of the last study attainment.
Faculties reserve three weeks (21 days) at the most for processing the graduation request. By submitting your graduation request by 28 November 2024, you can rest assured that your diploma will be completed and delivered to you before the faculties begin their Christmas break. Graduation requests submitted after this deadline will be processed as soon as possible, but no later than the beginning of January 2025.
A graduation request before all credits have been recorded
You can apply for graduation through the relevant degree programme code in Sisu when you have completed all studies, but the final credits have not yet been recorded. This may be necessary, for example, if your right to study is about to expire or if, for other compelling reasons (e.g., student loan compensation), you must graduate in the month when you completed your final credits.
Thesis and maturity test
The thesis that is included in the degree is usually one of the last study attainments. The exact schedule of assessing the thesis is separately agreed with the thesis supervisor. The supervisor also provides further instructions on the originality checking of the text using the Turnitin system and submitting the thesis for assessment via the Trepo system. The originality checking must be done before the completed thesis is submitted for assessment. Please also see these pages for further information: bachelor’s thesis, master’s thesis and master’s thesis in technology and architecture.
When the abstract of the thesis also serves as the maturity test, the reviewers of the thesis must provide their statements within three weeks (21 days) after the thesis has been submitted for assessment. If the maturity test is taken as an electronic exam, there is four weeks (28 days) to evaluate both the thesis and the maturity test.
The results of theses submitted for assessment between June 1 and August 31 can be announced within a longer period than mentioned above.
More information is to be found on the Maturity test and demonstration of language skills in degrees -page.
Further information for supervisors and teachers about maturity tests
All maturity tests for lower university degrees will be conducted as electronic exams from September 1, 2024. Theses summaries serve as maturity tests for higher education degrees, but the maturity tests for higher education degrees that include a language test are taken as electronic exams.
Note! The Finnish or Swedish language will be assessed during December 2024 for maturity tests that include language checking conducted no later than 29 November 2024. The Finnish or Swedish language of the maturity tests with language checking that were completed later will be assessed in January 2025.
Licentiate of Medicine degrees
Instructions for Licentiate of Medicine graduates and further information is available in Finnish on this page.
Further information on graduation schedules is provided by the faculties’ guidance and counselling services and specialist Hanna Nurmi (hanna.nurmi (at) tuni.fi).