Graduation

A graduating Bachelor student can attend the graduation ceremony only in the city where they are studying. Graduating Master students from Helsinki and Porvoo will attend the graduation ceremony in Helsinki. Graduating  Master students from Vierumäki will attend the ceremony in Vierumäki.

You can apply for graduation when you have passed all the required credits and thesis and they are registered in the student register. If you want to graduate on predetermined graduation date, carefully do all the parts in the graduation process two weeks prior to the graduation day, at the latest.

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You can apply for graduation outside the predetermined graduation dates when you have all the required credits in the student register. The handling time for graduation outside of the predetermined graduation dates is 3 weeks, with the exception of UAS vacation periods. The graduation date when graduating outside of the predetermined graduation dates is, as a rule, three weeks from applying for degree certificate.

Please note that only those you graduate on the predetermined graduation dates can participate in the graduation ceremony. Please check that you have time to do all the required parts of the graduation process in time so that you can graduate on the planned day.

In case you graduate outside the graduation ceremonies, you may receive your degree certificate by collecting it from the Info Desk of your home campus. Vierumäki students can collect the degree certificate from Study Services. You may also receive your degree certificate by post.

The degree certificate will be sent to locations within Finland using Cash on Delivery for €20 and abroad as a registered letter for €30. In case the certificate is sent abroad, you will receive payment information by email after submitting your application for degree certificate. Once Study Services has received a receipt of the payment by email, the degree certificate will be mailed at the earliest on the day of the graduation date to the address indicated on the application for graduation. Notice that Haaga-Helia does not take responsibility for the postal delivery.

When you finish your studies at Haaga-Helia, your username for the systems of the school will be locked and after that removed. Every graduating student gets an automatic email with an exact date when the user name will be removed. Please empty your email and your home directory before that. Please also remember to tell your friends and partners that your email address changes. Read more: Haaga-Helia user rules for IT services

Haaga Helia University of Applied Sciences degree certificate consists of three parts:

• a degree certificate in Finnish and English (including the full name of the degree programme and title of the degree)
• a transcript of records in Finnish and English (including all of the studies you have completed, excluding i.e. failed or dropped courses)
• a diploma supplement in English (more information about the student’s studies, the level of the degree as well as how it prepares for further studies and life after graduation)

When you have completed your bachelor's degree you can continue your studies by applying to the following further studies:

Master degrees in the Universities of Applied Sciences

• More information about Master degrees at Haaga-Helia >>

University Education

You may also continue your studies in a university, university of technology, or university of arts. Sometimes an applicant is required to complete supplementary studies to be qualified to apply for the university. More information about university education you can find from the universities' own web pages.