If you have completed the degree with which you applied in a country other than Finland, and have been admitted, you are required to provide us with the following documents relating to that degree:
- Degree Certificate
- Transcript of Records
- plus official English translations of the documents, if the original language is not English or Swedish
If the degree was completed in Finland, there is no need to provide any documents, as it is verifiable in the national database.
The method of verifying the documents and delivering them depends on the following:
- the country in which you completed your degree
- whether or not you are able to have your documents verified electronically
- whether or not you are already residing in Finland
Carefully go through the given options and follow the instructions for the option that applies to you.
** Please note that documents cannot be delivered to LUT University in person. **
DEADLINE
We must receive the hard copies of the educational documents by mail, or receive the electronically verified copies, together with the codes/passwords for electronic verification, by email by the following deadline
- 29 May 2026 at 15:00 (UTC+3)
Place lost if documents not provided as requested
Your place will be automatically lost without exception if you are unable to meet the requirement that is an official part of the admission process. This will happen if:
- the required documents are not received by mail at Lappeenranta Campus by the given deadline OR
- the student does not provide us with electronically verified copies, together with the codes/passwords for electronic verification, by email by the given deadline OR
- the documents do not meet the given requirements for certification
DELIVERING THE DOCUMENTS FOR VERIFICATION
There are four different ways to provide us with the certified documents requested, with mailing being the only possible option for most admitted students.
Carefully go through the given options and follow the instructions for the option that applies to you.
The way in which you deliver your documents is not a matter of personal preference, but one that you must follow according to the criteria for your case.
For example: If you completed your Bachelor's degree in Pakistan and do not reside in Finland, your only option is to mail us certified copies of your educational documents according to the country-specific requirements.
1. Mailing LUT University, Lappeenranta Campus the certified copies
Mailing (not emailing) us the copies (not originals) that have been certified as requested is the most required method for document verification.
See the detailed instructions for the certification according to the country where you completed your degree in.
- DEGREES COMPLETED IN COUNTRIES WITH COUNTRY-SPECIFIC REQUIREMENTS
African countries, Bangladesh, China, India, Indonesia, Iran, Malaysia, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Vietnam
- DEGREE COMPLETED IN COUNTRIES WITH NO COUNTRY-SPECIFIC REQUIREMENTS
Finland excluded as the degrees completed in Finland are verifiable from a national database.
Mailing address
LUT University
Admissions Services / Master's programmes
Yliopistonkatu 34
FI-53850 LAPPEENRANTA Finland
Tel: +358 29 446 2111
Despite of your programme location, the documents must always be mailed to Lappeenranta Campus.
Customs notification
We do not declare anybody's documents from the customs.
To avoid your documents to get stuck in the customs, clearly indicate the contents as documents and do not indicate any monetary value on them when mailing them.
In case of your documents get stuck in the customs for any reason, you are responsible for actions required for them to be re-delivered to LUT University.
2. Electronic verification by the awarding university
In case of the degree-awarding university providing you with a possibility to electronically verify your educational documents, it is an alternative way to provide us with the required documents instead of mailing us the hard copies.
This option is available for degrees completed in any country as long as the documents bear either a digital verification element on them and/or they are verifiable from an official online verification system.
If able to have the documents electronically verified by the awarding university, you must provide us with the documents bearing the digital verification elements and/or provide us with the codes and/or passwords needed for the verification process by email after having been admitted but by the given deadline for the verification.
Emailed copies without any true electronic verification element and/or codes and/or passwords needed for the verification process are not accepted.
3. Electronic verification by Parchment Digitary CORE
Regardless of the country where the degree was completed in, we also accept documents electronically verified through Parchment Digitary CORE.
4. Certification by Digital and Population Data Services Agency (DVV)
Regardless of the country where the degree was completed in, it is also possible to have the educational documents certified by Digital and Population Data Services (Digi- ja väestötietovirasto, DVV) if already residing in Finland and mail us the certified documents by the given deadline.
Further information: Notarisation process
Mailing address
LUT University
Admissions Services / Master's programmes
Yliopistonkatu 34
FI-53850 LAPPEENRANTA Finland
Tel: +358 29 446 2111
Despite of your programme location, the documents must always be mailed to Lappeenranta Campus.
WHEN REQUIRED TO MAIL THE DOCUMENTS
If the university having awarded you the degree you applied with is located in the listed countries
- African countries, Bangladesh, China, India, Indonesia, Iran, Malaysia, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Vietnam
and there is no option for an electronic verification and you are not already residing in Finland, you must follow the
for providing us with the required documents.
For each country listed above there is a special way of providing the documents that must be fully followed.
Whenever the original educational documents not issued in English, Finnish or Swedish, official translations in English are required in addition to the documents in original language.
If the university having awarded you the degree you applied with is located in any other country except for the ones with country-specific requirements and there is no option for an electronic verification and you are not already residing in Finland, you must choose one of the following methods (1-2) for official certification for providing us with the required documents.
1. Official certification by the awarding institution
The easiest way to get officially certified copies for your original documents is most likely to turn to the awarding university and have them provide you with the certified copies according to the given specifics:
- Copies are taken from the original documents
- Copies include each page of the original documents
- Copies bear an original stamp of the awarding institution
on each page of the document
- a generic stamp "Certified true copy" is not accepted
- Copies bear an original signature of the certifying officer
Photocopies without an official certification will not be accepted.
2. Official certification by legalisation
If not able to have your educational documents officially certified by the awarding institution, you can get them officially certified through a process called legalisation.
Legalisation is divided into two different methods depending on whether the country where the degree was awarded is a signatory to the Hague Convention of 1961 or not.
A. Apostille
Apostille Certificate is required if the degree was awarded in a country that is a signatory of the Hague Convention of 1961.
An Apostille Certificate can be done by stamping the document with a specific Apostille stamp or, on a separate Apostille Certificate.
B. Legalisation
Legalisation is required, if the degree was awarded in a country that is not a signatory of the Hague Convention of 1961.
- The first legalisation for the document must be done by the Foreign Ministry of the degree-awarding country
- The second legalisation for the document must be done by a Finnish Embassy or Consulate to that country having completed the first legalisation.
Whenever the original educational documents not issued in English, Finnish or Swedish, official translations in English are required in addition to the documents in original language.
What is an official translation?
- Issued by the awarding institution
- An officially certified copy of a translation issued by the awarding institution
- Translated by an official translator
- An officially certified copy of a translation made by an official translator
Each translation must bear the translator's stamp and/or signature.
The official Diploma Supplement in English will be considered as a translation for the Degree Certificate as well.