Applying for your diploma

• Submit your thesis in Brightspace. You will not need to attach a copy of your thesis to your application for your diploma.
• Use the form below to apply for your diploma.

Bachelor's

Master's

Once you have submitted your application, you will receive confirmation that your application for your diploma has been received. If you do not receive a confirmation, please contact the Student Information Desk to check whether your application has been received.
 

Applying for your diploma

You can apply for a diploma from the Faculty of Arts via Osiris Case (Zaak in Dutch). Once you have completed all parts of your examination program, you will automatically receive a message that you can apply for your diploma. Make sure you request your diploma within 4 weeks of your last obtained result.

In Osiris Case, a Diploma Application Case is automatically started for you, which consists of 3 steps:

1. A Case questionnaire form is available for you in Osiris in which you answer questions about your study progress overview (SVO) and agree to your graduation date. Your graduation date is determined by the date on which you took your last passed test or thesis was registered in Osiris.
2. A second Case form will then be started for you, in which you are asked to provide 3 documents:
   1. A PDF copy of your thesis
   2. A completed plagiarism form (pdf) 
   3. A permission form for your thesis to be included and made available to others in the Radboud Thesis Repository (pdf)
3. After approval of your diploma application by the Examination Board, you will receive a communication/email with a link to a questionnaire in which you indicate your wishes regarding the diploma ceremony (this may take a few weeks).

After submitting Cases 1 and 2, you will receive a confirmation of receipt of your graduation application at your @ru.nl email address. 

•     Are you eligible for the profile certificate of the master's programme in Communicatie en Beïnvloeding or Global Communication & Diversity? Then fill in this form for C&B and this form for GC&D.
• Are you a Bachelor's student of CIW or IBC? Then download the document Personal questions and add it as an attachment under step 1.

You can always contact the STIP desk if you have any questions. If you have any questions about re-registration, please contact the Central Student Desk.

If you need a statement to prove you have completed your Bachelor's or Master's programme in the meantime, for example for work or (further) study, you can apply for a graduation statement using this form.

• You will need to complete the form to apply for your diploma.
• It’s useful to keep your Study Progress Report (Osiris) at hand when you are completing your application. This will help you to easily find the course codes and course names that you need to enter on the application form.
• If certain courses have not been listed correctly in your examination programme (e.g. an elective course has been listed as an extra-curricular course), you can indicate this on the application form.
• Be sure to include a copy of the relevant letter that you received from the Examination Board, which states that you were exempt from the standard examination programme and/or were otherwise allowed to deviate from the standard examination programme.

Bachelor's

Master's

Minor certificate

Once you have submitted the form, you will receive confirmation at your @ru.nl email address that your application for your diploma has been received. If you do not receive a confirmation email, please contact the Student Information Desk (stip [at] let.ru.nl) to check whether your application has been received.

You can submit an application for your diploma up to six weeks before the graduation ceremony. If you are unable to attend the graduation ceremony, you can submit a request to your study programme’s Examination Board to collect your diploma from the reception desk. Be sure to explain the reason for your absence in your application.

When you need a certified letter that you completed your Bachelor's or (pre-)Master's programme or that you are expected to complete your Bachelor's or (pre-)Master's programma before 31 August, you can request such a letter below.

Completion Bachelor's / (pre-)Master's programme

Expected completion Bachelor's / (pre-)Master's programme

When can you apply for your diploma?

How to apply for your diploma differs for all programs in the Faculty of Medical Sciences.

Medicine (GNK) / Bachelor of Biomedical Sciences (BMW) / Biomedical Sciences (BMS)

You must submit a digital request to graduate, see below. You must have submitted this at least four weeks before the meeting of the examination board. This may be done earlier.

Prerequisites:

• All parts of your program are approved (at least three months before graduation) by the examination board;
• You have successfully completed all examinations that are part of your program and all grades/results have been processed in Osiris (at least two weeks before the meeting of the examination board);
• You have made a formal request for graduation (you do not have to wait with the request until you have passed every required part).

Dentistry

You must submit a digital request to graduate, see below. You must have submitted this at least four weeks before the meeting of the examination board. This may be done earlier.

Prerequisites:

• You have successfully completed all examinations that are part of your program and all grades/results have been processed in Osiris (at least two weeks before the meeting of the examination board);
• You have made a formal request for graduation (you do not have to wait with the request until you have passed every required part).

Molecular Mechanisms of Disease (MMD)

Prerequisites:

• You must submit a digital request to graduate via topdesk, see below. You must have submitted this at least two weeks before the meeting of the examination board. This may be done earlier;
• You have successfully completed all examinations that are part of your program and all grades/results have been processed in Osiris (at least two weeks before the meeting of the examination board).

Exam date and deregistration date

For Medicine, BMW, BMS and Dentistry, the exam date is the date of the results meeting of the examination board. Until and including this date, you must be enrolled at Radboud University Nijmegen.

Examination board meeting dates BMW, BMS, Medicine
Examination board meeting dates Dentistry

Applying for your diploma

Form BMW, BMS, MMD, Medicine
Forms Dentistry
Form doctor exam ceremony

Graduation ceremony

Physician's Oath for the Master of Medicine

Approval of the study programme

In order to graduate from a Bachelor’s or Master’s programme, the programme must be approved. Ensure that your programme is approved in time. We would urge you to submit this request three months before you intend to graduate. More information and the necessary forms can be found under ‘Applying for programme approval’.

If any changes are made to your programme after you have submitted your request, please email the details to fnwi.examcies [at] science.ru.nl (fnwi[dot]examcies[at]science[dot]ru[dot]nl). 

Please note: You will receive a decision from the Examination Board within four weeks. Once your programme has been approved by the Examination Board, the examination administration will ensure that the courses that you have successfully completed by that time are presented correctly in the Study Progress Report.

Applying for your diploma

You can apply for your exam as soon as all of your grades have been entered in Osiris. You can apply for your exam up until the day of the exam date. 

Request your diploma

Following the application

Once your application has been approved, you will receive a message within eight weeks of your exam date that confirms that you have passed your exam. You will receive an invitation about three weeks before the graduation ceremony is held, provided that you have indicated that you wish to attend the graduation ceremony.

Statement of graduation

Have you requested your graduation and do you need a proof of graduation before receiving your diploma? Request a statement of graduation.

If you have completed additional Bachelor’s courses at the Faculty of Law that fall outside the standard curriculum and these have not been included in another diploma, they may possibly be included as extra-curricular courses. In such situations, please provide the names of these courses below. Courses that have been successfully completed at another faculty (such as the Nijmegen School of Management) will not be included as extra-curricular courses. If you graduate from a Bachelor’s programme before 1 June, you will be eligible for a refund of the excess tuition fees.

Bachelor's

Requesting Master exam

Procedure

The procedure for the request to graduate is as follows:

1. When the thesis supervisor has assessed the Master thesis as sufficient, the supervisor will hand in a certificate of approval at the faculty’s student administration. The letter of approval will be visible in Osiris (tab student file) after the student administration has received it.
2. The student administration will send you an e-mail (@student.ru.nl) on receipt containing the link to the application form for graduation.
3. You fill out the application form. In order to do so, you need the following data:
   • Thesis supervisor’s name (first reader) and second reader.
   • Two preferred graduation dates, which have been decided with the thesis supervisor (with a minimal timespan of four weeks after the date on which you submitted the application form).
   • The course name for which you wrote the Master thesis. 
   In the application form you can indicate if you will follow the standard graduation procedure (as explained in this procedure) or the internal graduation procedure (in consultation with the International Office).
4. The transcript will be presented to the examination board for approval after the application form has been received by the student administration. While waiting for the final thesis grade, the student administration will add a temporary result PM (MI - Memorandum Item) to your transcript, from which you will receive an automatically send e-mail by Osiris.
5. After the examination board’s approval, your data will be transmitted to the examinations office, who will then reserve a room in the auditorium after which they will directly send you an e-mail with, inter alia, the exam date. If there is no room available in the auditorium on both the preferred dates, an examinations office employee will contact you by telephone to set up a new date.
6. The examinations office will send you and your supervisors an e-mail with an official invitation about two weeks before the graduation date.

Application deadline

The timespan between the exam request at the examinations office and the graduation date is at least four weeks. This means you have to apply for your graduation on time!

Also, you must be registered for the relevant Master at all times in order to graduate!

Please note: In accordance with the university annual timetable, it is not possible to graduate according to the standard graduation procedure from 15 July 2024 until 9 August 2024.

In case of circumstances that make it difficult to graduate within the time-framework of the standard graduation procedure, the Faculty of Law offers an internal graduation procedure. For more information, please contact the International Office internationaloffice [at] jur.ru.nl (internationaloffice[at]jur[dot]ru[dot]nl) .

Graduation

The official Master exam consists of a discussion of the thesis with the examinations board, the ’thesis presentation’.  You are expected to be able to present the thesis subject and to discuss the recent developments (regarding literature, case-law, and practice) in the field. This meeting is usually private and will take about 45 minutes. When there is the need to have a public meeting, this is possible in consultation with the teachers. The final grade will be determined on the basis of the content of the thesis and your thesis presentation.

The examination board will reward the diploma and the transcript, containing the thesis grade, after the meeting. It goes without saying that friends and family are cordially invited to attend.

Keep this in mind

• In order to qualify for adjudication you must meet the requirements.
• Students may, in principle, have been excused from the programme for a maximum of 50% and they must have followed and achieved the programme at the Faculty of Law (Radboud University) for a minimum of 50%.
• If you want to graduate in two specialisations of the same programme, you must have met all the requirements of both specialisations (including letter(s) of approval). When in doubt, ask for the relevant procedure at your student advisor.

Cum laude

The Examination Board will award the distinction “cum laude” in the event the
weighed average result of all components taken together equals or is higher than 8.0. All exams should be passed at the first exam opportunity.

Bachelor's and Master's

How do you apply for your bachelor's degree?

1. Check whether all required results are in Osiris
2. Before completing the application form, first request your study progress overview in Osiris, so that you can quickly find codes and names and, if requested, enter them in the correct place in the form.
3. Your thesis will be stored in the thesis repository. You help determine whether your thesis will be made public. In the diploma application form you will be asked to upload a signed copy of the consent form (both pages) in PDF. Note: this should not be larger than 500 MB!
   Have you studied the master's specialisation ‘Psychology: Behaviour Change’? Then please fill in this consent form, as your thesis will consist of an advisory report in addition to the thesis.
4. Complete the form below to apply for your diploma.

Applying for a Bachelor's degree

Applying for a Master's degree

The period after your application

1. Processing your application takes 3 to 7 weeks
2. If you are going to follow a master's programme at the Radboud University, register for it in Studielink in time
3. Once your exam application is completely processed and your exam date is registered in Osiris, you can download an official diploma summary via DUO.
   If you don’t have a DigiD, please request this diploma summary by emailing diplomadiensten [at] duo.nl (diplomadiensten[at]duo[dot]nl). You will receive a permission form to fill out and return.
4. When you have finished studying, you must deregister. Also check with DUO which steps you may still need to take (for example, hand in public transport card and stop student finance). If you continue with the follow-up master's degree at the Radboud University, it is not necessary to deregister from the bachelor's degree.

Problems with your application

Your application will be sent to the Student Information Point (STIP). If you have not received a confirmation on your @ru.nl email address, there is a chance that the sending has failed and that the STIP has not received a request from you. Please contact STIP (024-3616163 or email stip [at] socsci.ru.nl (stip[at]socsci[dot]ru[dot]nl)) to check whether your application has been received. The confirmation email contains information regarding the further processing of your application by STIP and Diploma Services. You will also find all the information you have entered in the form. Hold onto that email.

Receiving your diploma by post?

Within the Faculty of Social Sciences it is only possible for international students (>200 km travel distance, one-way) to send your diploma by post to your home address. Ask STIP (stip [at] socsci.ru.nl (stip[at]socsci[dot]ru[dot]nl)) for the conditions and procedure.

Each Master’s programme concludes with the Master’s exam. The content of this exam is documented in the relevant Education and Examination Regulations (EER) and the course guide for the Radboud Teachers Academy. The Radboud Teachers Academy’s Examination Board determines when a student has met the requirements of the Master’s exam.

Applying for a Master’s exam

Use the Master’s Exam Web Form to submit your Master’s exam application. You must do this within four weeks of passing your last exam. Only fully completed applications will be processed. The student administration will process the application and submit it to the Examination Board for review.

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Approval by the Examination Board

The Examination Board will then determine whether all of the requirements for the exam have been met and will decide which distinction will be awarded (see EER). Once the Examination Board has given its approval and signed the document, you will receive a Study Progress Report (SVO). Examination applications are registered through Osiris and are then forwarded to the Central Student Administration Office.

Scheduling an examination date

The Central Student Administration Office will perform a procedural check and enter the formal examination date (day, month, year) in Osiris. This information will be shared with DUO. The examination date is usually the date of the last completed exam with an extension of 15 working days (which is the correction deadline). The examination date will be recorded on the certificate and is completely separate from the date on which the diploma will be awarded.