By Dutch law, you must obtain your Bachelor’s and/or Master’s degree prior to the start of the Master's programme on 1 September. The Admissions Office needs to verify whether you have successfully completed your previous education.
I have a Dutch degree
If you will complete or have completed your previous education at the University of Amsterdam or another Dutch university, the Admissions Office will verify your graduation in DUO. You do not have to send us your diploma and transcript, unless stated otherwise in your conditional admission letter.
It may take several weeks for your university to register your graduation. Have you completed all courses of your Bachelor's and/or Master’s programme, but is your graduation not yet officially registered? In that case it is also possible to be admitted based on a graduation statement. The graduation statement needs to be sent by an authorised department at your university to certifieddocuments-law@uva.nl. We do not accept digital documents sent to us by students.
Once your graduation has been verified, you will be admitted to the Master’s programme. You will receive an official confirmation once your admission has been finalised.
I have a non-Dutch degree
We need to receive digital copies of your final transcript(s) and degree certificate(s) to finalise your admission. Please note that the deadline for submitting your documents can vary per student, as some are in need of assistance with an entrance visa or resident permit. In the conditional admission email, you will find the required documents and the deadline by which we need to have received them. Documents that are not written in Dutch, English, German or French, must be accompanied by an official translation to English made by a sworn translator or a notary.
Graduation statement
If your diploma will not be issued before the deadline you can submit a graduation statement instead. In this graduation statement your university needs to declare that you have met all graduation requirements and have graduated from your Bachelor's and/or Master's degree, stating your exact graduation date.
The document should be on official letterhead of your university and has to contain the following information:
- First (given) name and last name;
- Date of birth;
- Country of birth;
- Name of study programme;
- That you have met all graduation requirements of your Bachelor’s and/or Master’s programme;
- Official graduation date;
- Stamp and signature from a representative of your home institution.
How to submit your digital documents
Through a secure portal:
We accept digital documents sent to us through a secure portal, such as: Parchment, Digitary, Hear, My eQuals, Gradintelligence, or CSSD (formerly CHESICC).
The email address with which you can share the documents is certifieddocuments-law@uva.nl.
Via email:
We accept digital documents sent to us by an authorised department of your university (such as the Registrar’s Office). Please ask the authorised department to send your documents to certifieddocuments-law@uva.nl. Please note that we do not accept digital documents sent to us by students.
What happens after we have received your documents?
Once we have received your digital documents, we aim to verify them within 3 weeks. Upon successful verification, you will receive an email confirming your unconditional admission.