More information about graduation for ESE Master programs
From 1 June 2025 onwards students at Erasmus School of Economics will automatically graduate when they have completed all the elements in their programme. If you graduate before 1 June 2025 you need to request your Master exam yourself in Osiris.
The process (from 1 June 2025 onwards)
The Study Progress & Diploma department will regularly check (on average once a week) which students can graduate. These students will receive an e-mail that the active degree conferral process has started for them. Once the active degree conferral process has started, it cannot be reversed. You will also be asked to fill out a form in Osiris Student. In this form you indicate whether you want to participate in the Graduation Day or want to pick up your diploma at the Erasmus Student Service Center (ESSC).
Important: Regularly check in Osiris Student if your programme and progress in the Study Progress Report is correct. Contact the ESE Information Desk if it is not.
Receiving your diploma
If you choose to receive your diploma during the Graduation Day, you will festively conclude your studies with your fellow students, professors and your family. The Master Graduation Day takes place start of December. You receive a graduation statement which you can provide as proof that you have graduated in the period between your graduation and the Graduation Day.
In case you do not want to attend the Graduation Day, you can pick up your diploma at the Erasmus Student Service Centre (ESSC) after making an appointment. Alternatively, your diploma can be send to your home address by courier. Only use this option as a last resort, as legally, the university is not allowed to issue a diploma more than once. If your diploma gets lost in the mail, it is not possible to issue a new copy.
Please note: diplomas are only sent abroad and never within the Netherlands.
Wish to delay graduation?
To delay your graduation you either postpone (the defence of) your thesis or you keep a course open. For the Master thesis, it is possible to hand in your final thesis before or on the deadline, get approval of your thesis so you will have officially made the deadline, and then delay your thesis defence till you are ready to graduate. To keep a course open you delay taking the exam until you are ready to graduate.
If it is no longer possible for you to either postpone your thesis or to keep a course open, you can, under certain circumstances, file a request with the Examination Board to postpone graduation. If you would like to make such a request, the following is important:
- Make the request for postponement latest six weeks before your final result will be registered in Osiris. To make the request, go to the page of the Examination Board, and select the case “Other”.
- In the request provide the reason why you want to postpone graduation, for example because you want to do an internship. Upload any proof that you have regarding your request, for example, your internship contract or exchange agreement. Also include your preferred new graduation date.
- The Examination Board decides within six weeks whether the request will be granted and what the new graduation date will be.
- The total duration of your enrolment after postponement cannot be longer than the nominal study duration + 1 year. This means if you already experienced a study delay of a year or longer, you cannot request postponement of your graduation.
You can request postponement for the following reasons:
- Finishing the second Master specialisation
- ESE Fall Exchange
- Internship (both curricular and extracurricular)
- Wish to participate in the resits to improve a sufficient result
- Wish to complete additional courses at ESE because these are necessary for further education (Master or post-initial Master programme)
- Doing a board year or committee at a recognized ESE study association
- Following an ESE or EUR Honours programme
Termination enrolment
Your enrollment is not automatically terminated after you graduate. You must request this yourself. For more information and the disenrollment procedure. Terminating Enrolment.
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