Late Bachelor's degrees
The copies of degree certificates and the transcripts must be issued by the awarding institution or be photocopies certified by a notary public. The translations must be issued by the applicant's home institution or be translated by an official translator. For details, please see "Required enclosures".
To be eligible to apply, you must obtain your Bachelor's degree and submit a copy of the degree certificate by 31 July 2013.
If you receive your degree certificate after the application deadline, please
- enclose to your application your own statement explaining that you have not graduated yet
- list the courses that are yet to be finished and
- give your expected date of graduation.
Sign your statement. At this point, no statements/stamps from your university officials are required but you must enclose with your application an official transcript from your home university.
How to submit the Degree Certificate?
After graduation, an attested copy of your degree certificate must be submitted to the University of Tampere according to the instructions below.
Applicants who will graduate after the application deadline but before the announcement of the results
Master programme applicants with an unfinished Bachelor's Degree who will graduate after the closing of the application deadline but before the announcement of results in February - April, are requested to send the attested and officially translated copies of their degree certificate and final transcript at their earliest convenience directly to the University of Tampere (not to University Admissions Finland, UAF) to the following address:
University of Tampere
Admissions Office
FI-33014 University of Tampere
Finland
Applicants who receive conditional acceptance to the University of Tampere before graduation
Those applicants who are successful and will graduate in May or later can be accepted on the condition that they send an attested and officially translated copy of the degree certificate to the University of Tampere by 31 July. Instructions on how to submit a copy of the degree certificate will be sent to these applicants in May.
Kalevantie 4, FI-33014 University of Tampere, Finland
tel. +358 (0)3 355 111
