Request for graduation

Your graduation request will be based on your personal study plan (HOPS) that is in force at the time. Any subsequent changes to your study plan will not be taken into account in your request for graduation.

• If you submit a request for graduation for an incorrect degree programme or specifying selection, your request may be rejected. You may be asked to select a degree programme that matches your right to study.
• You can submit a request for graduation only if your right to study is active (you are an attending student and your right to study has not expired).
• Your study modules will be assessed at the time of your graduation, unless otherwise instructed.

Start by checking that you meet Sisu’s requirements for a successful graduation request:

1. You can only request graduation through your primary study plan.
2. You can request graduation when the status of your study plan is one of the following:
   • Selections done
   • Parts completed
   • Selections approved
   • Selections approved, parts completed
   • Selections conditionally approved
   • Selections conditionally approved, parts completed
3. All parts of your study plan must be approved before you submit a graduation request.
   • Read more here.
4. Check the graduation instructions of your degree programme.
   • They are available here.
     1. Select your degree programme.
     2. Navigate to the section ‘Graduation’.
5. If you have a right to pursue a bachelor’s and a master’s degree: Do not delete your bachelor’s degree programme from your study plan after completing your bachelor’s degree.
   • Note: Your graduation request cannot be processed if you have deleted your bachelor’s degree programme. 

1. Personal data
   • Check that this information is correct. You cannot edit this information yourself.
2. Contact information
   • You can edit your telephone number and secondary address if you need to. Your personal data will be automatically updated accordingly.
   • NOTE! Aalto email works four months after your graduation. Please add secondary email to your personal information in Sisu, e.g. for possible certificate mailing and alumni communications
3. Other information
   • Answer any questions on your graduation.
   • The questions depend on your degree programme. Some questions are compulsory.
     • Starting from 1 August 2022, bachelor’s degree graduates are asked about their choice of master’s programmes.
   • Additional information related to your graduation request. Add additional information where appropriate. Completed credits that have not been entered into Sisu yet are a good example of additional information that affects your request for graduation.
4. Delivery of your degree certificate
   • Indicate whether you would like to pick up your degree certificate at the university or receive it by post.
   • If you wish to receive it by post, you can select your primary or secondary address as the delivery address.
5. Alumni activities
   • This section is visible to master’s and doctoral degree graduates.
   • Check the blue box if you want to join the alumni network and allow your personal data (name, primary address and secondary email address) to be forwarded to the alumni register.
   • Note that your contact and degree information will be saved in Aalto’s alumni and partner system upon your graduation, regardless of whether you join the alumni register.
6. Submit your request for graduation
   • To finish, submit your request for graduation by clicking the ‘Submit graduation request’ button.
   • Confirm that you want to submit the request.
7. The Finnish Bachelor’s Graduate Survey
   • This section is visible to bachelor’s degree graduates.
   • Take the survey immediately by clicking the ‘Continue to the survey’ button.
   • If you would like to take it later, click ‘Not now’.
8. Submitted request for graduation
   • After you have submitted your request for graduation, Sisu displays a green banner with the text ‘Graduation request submitted’, and the status of your graduation request is ‘Requested’.
   • You can also see your graduation request in the ‘My profile’ section under ‘Applications and requests’.

Method 1: Through the degree programme code

1. Go to the ‘Structure of studies’ section and, in your study plan, click on the degree programme code.
2. Click on ‘Show graduation request’.
3. Click on ‘Withdraw the application’.

Method 2: Through the selection assistant

1. Go to the ‘Structure of studies’ section and click on the title of your study plan.
2. The row is activated and the selection assistant appears on the right-hand side.
3. Click on ‘Show graduation request’.
4. Click on ‘Withdraw the application’.

Method 3: Through ‘My profile’

1. Go to ‘My profile’ and open the ‘Applications and requests’ tab.
2. Find the correct request.
3. Click on the request.
4. Click on ‘Withdraw the application’.

Note: If you cancel a request, you cannot reactivate it for processing.

When your request has been processed, you will receive a notification on Sisu.

How to check your messages:

• Go to the ‘Newest messages and notifications’ section on the front page.
• Click on the message icon in the upper banner.

The message will include your graduation date and a link: ‘view credit info’.

If your request for graduation has been rejected, you will be notified by a message on Sisu.

• Go to the ‘Newest messages and notifications’ section on the front page.
• Click on the message icon in the upper banner.

A negative decision will include the grounds on which your graduation request was rejected. It will also contain links to your study plan and the graduation request.

Note: In this case, your study plan will revert to the status it had before you requested graduation.