Graduation - Doctoral studies

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Graduation - Doctoral studies

You may graduate after you have completed your studies, your public examination is over, your dissertation has been approved and assessed by the Academic Council and you have applied for graduation in Sisu.

Graduation is possible non-stop within two weeks from the date when you have submitted your graduation application in Sisu. The graduation application can be submitted only after your dissertation has been approved by the Academic Council. Once you have applied for graduation, as a general rule you may attend the graduation ceremony the following month. You may check the dates of the graduation ceremony from the link below.

Please note that you have to be an attending student for the term you are going to graduate.

Starting in February 2024 all graduates receive an electronic degree certificate. You can pick up a diploma folder from Student Customer Service if you wish to keep a paper copy of your diploma in the folder. You can also order a verified copy of your degree certificate and attachments for example for work applications abroad. Verified copies of the degree certificate are issued for specific needs. See more information below from the Verified copy of degree certificate link. 

Conferment Ceremony

Approximately every five years the university arranges a conferment ceremony at which doctors are awarded the right to use the insignia, i.e. the doctoral hat and the sword (the latter only for those with a doctorate in business administration, social sciences or philosophy). All doctors who have graduated after the previous ceremony are invited. The previous ceremony was held in Lahti on May 27-28, 2022. More information is available on the LUT conferment ceremony website. Please note! The right to use the insignia (a hat, a sword) can be acquired only by participating the conferment ceremony. LUT gives specific instructions on acquiring a doctoral hat and a sword after the date for the next conferment ceremony is published. Graduates must not acquire them before that.

Career Planning

LUT Career Services for Students

Aarresaari - career services network for Finnish universities. Aarresaari web pages offer information on doctoral degree career monitoring and also offers advice on job search.

Researcher's curriculum vitae - a template for the researcher’s CV be used in Finnish research organisations