Since you will complete your degree at a Dutch institution of higher education, you don’t have to provide us with a copy of your degree certificate. The Admissions Office will verify your degree digitally in:

• August (for September start)
• January (for February start)

Note: your graduation date must be no later than:

• 31 August (September start)
• 31 January (February start)

If you cannot meet this deadline, you will not be able to start your Master’s programme.

Check your conditional admission letter to see if additional documents like your final transcript are required. If so, check how to submit these below under ‘How can I submit my digital documents’.

Have you completed all courses of your Bachelor's (and/or Master’s) programme, but is your graduation not yet officially registered in DUO? Then we also accept a graduation statement, sent by an authorised department at your institution of higher education. Below you can find more information regarding the graduation statement.

If you are a UvA student, make sure you apply for your degree certificate in time (if possible before 1 July). More information is available on the student website.

If you have obtained your diploma from a university outside the Netherlands, please submit digital copies of the following official documents:

• your original higher education diploma(s)
• your original higher education transcript(s)
• additional documents mentioned in the email you received about your conditional admission.

Please note that:

• if your original documents are not in English, Dutch, German, or French, we need an official translation by a sworn translator*.
• translated documents can be sent separately by the sworn translator by email
• you have to submit digital documents of all previous (Bachelor's and/or Master's) programmes that are relevant for admission to your Master's of pre-Master's programme. More information on which documents to send and what deadline applies to you can be found in your conditional admission letter sent by the Admissions Office.

* Sworn translators are officially recognised and authorised, often by a court or government body, to translate documents for official or legal use. 
Their translations need to be accompanied by a statement, stamp, and signature from the translator, certifying that the translation is a true and accurate representation of the original document. 
In many countries, sworn translators are listed in a specific register. In case your country does not have sworn translators, a certified translator may perform the official translations. A public notary can certify the signature/identity of the translator thereafter.

Deadline for submitting your digital documents

We need to have received your documents no later than the deadline stated below:

If you have completed all the courses in your Bachelor's (and/or Master’s) programme, but your graduation has not yet been officially registered, we also accept a graduation statement issued by an authorised department at your higher education institution.

Below you can find more information regarding the graduation statement.

If your diploma will not be issued before the deadline you can submit a graduation statement instead. In this graduation statement your home institution 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.

Note: your graduation date can be no later than:

• 31 August (September start)
• 31 January (February start)

The document should be on official letterhead of your home institution and has to contain the following information:

• First (given) name and last name;
• Date of birth;
• Current Bachelor’s and/or Master’s education;
• That you have completely met all graduation requirements of your Bachelor’s and/or Master’s programme;
• Definitive graduation date; ‘Expected’ or 'provisional' graduation dates are not accepted).
• Stamp and signature from a representative of your home institution.

Through a secure portal:

We accept documents sent to us through a secure portal, such as: Parchment, Digitary, Hear, E-Script, Gradintelligence, or CSSD (formerly CHESICC). 

Via email:
We accept digital documents sent to us by a sworn translator or an authorised department of your institution of higher education (such as the Registrar’s Office). Please ask the authorised department to send your documents to the Graduate School below:

Important: We do not accept digital documents sent to us by students and/or from a student email address.

Email addresses per faculty:

Economics and business: Documents-EB@uva.nl
Graduate School of Communication Science: Admissions-cs@uva.nl
Amsterdam Law School: certifieddocuments-law@uva.nl
Faculty of Medicine: pre-master-MI@amsterdamumc.nl
Graduate School of Social Sciences: apply-gsss@uva.nl
Graduate School of Psychology: admissions-psy@uva.nl
Faculty of Science: master-science@uva.nl
Institute for Interdisciplinary Sciences (IIS): master-science@uva.nl
Graduate School of Humanities: certifieddocumentsma-fgw@uva.nl
Graduate School of Child Development and Education: admissions-pow-fmg@uva.nl

Once we have received your digital documents, we aim to verify them within 3-4 weeks. Upon successful verification, and provided you have met all other admission requirements, you will receive an email confirming your unconditional admission.

Additionally, your Admission status in your Enrolment Checklist in SIS will be updated to 'completed'. The Checklist also outlines any remaining steps required to finalise your enrolment in the programme, such as tuition fee payment.