You must apply for the degree certificate yourself and you can send in your application once you have finished your studies. A degree certificate is a verification that you, through your studies, have acquired knowledge and abilities up to a certain level.
You apply for your degree certificate at the university where you completed the last course of your education. Your application will be assessed against the applicable national and local graduation rules. At University of Gävle, you apply direct via Ladok.
Before you apply for your degree certificate you need to the following.
University of Gävle issues degree certificates digitally. The certificates is verifiable directly over the Internet. The degree certificate states the degree awarded, the courses included, course grades and the date they were completed. The degree certificate is in both Swedish and English. Additionally, you receive a diploma supplement which is an appendix in English describing the implemented education and its place in the educational system.
The office turnaround time varies during the year and depends on the nature of the application but normal processing time is six to eight weeks from the date the University of Gävle receives a complete application. It is not possible to speed up individual cases nor to gain priority. All applications are processed as quickly as possible. The degree certificate will be sent to you by e-mail as soon as it is issued, based on the address information in Ladok. You can check, and change, the e-mail address yourself through Ladok.
There is no national grading system in Sweden. The Swedish higher education institutions may determine freely which grading system is to be used for any of the courses on offer. Partly due to this variety of grading systems, no overall grade or GPA is given for a degree certificate and our graduate students are not ranked in any way.
There is also no officially determined methodology for translating the Swedish grades to any other foreign grading system.
According to the most recent graduate regulations each degree must consist of exactly the number of credits stipulated, that is, neither more nor fewer credits than allowed.
