De-registration or re-registration
Graduating from your study programme and being awarded your diploma does not mean your student registration is automatically cancelled. De-registration is your own responsibility and is not compulsory.
Once you have graduated you can choose to cancel your student registration. However if you will continue following a study programme you should remain registered and, if required, re-register for the next academic year.
You can find full details of our registration, de-registration and re-registration procedures under Your student registration. However please keep the following in mind:
- De-registration does not occur automatically and is not compulsory. It is not linked to the awarding of your diploma.
- If you remain registered as a student you must continue paying tuition fees, but you may remain entitled to a student travel pass and student finance from DUO.
- If you choose to de-register remember to cancel your student travel pass and student finance with DUO. This does not happen automatically.
- Remember that other organisations must be notified once you cancel your student registration (for example your insurance provider or bank).
De-registration
Being awarded your qualification and having graduated are not the same as being de-registered as a student of the university.
For students who start with the master in September and submit their thesis in June (or re-take in August) the registration will automatically stop at the end of the academic year (August 31). Their official graduation date is either 30 June or 31 August.
For students who start with the master in February, the official graduation date is 31 January. However, they must explicitly request via Studielink to be de-registered and should do so right after they submit the final version of their Thesis, which is at the end of January. Failing to do so can result in paying an extra month of tuition fee. When requesting termination of registration, they should indicate that “graduation” is the reason for termination. Only this way the thesis grade can be registered in uSis even after the termination request has been submitted in Studielink.
Those students who graduate at any other time due to delay or special circumstances, and wish to terminate their registration before the official end of the academic year, you need to submit a termination request through Studielink.
More information
For more information on graduation please contact our study advisor Kiara Kennedy.