Graduation
MA students apply for their graduation by filling in a form. This website contains more information about the graduation procedure, the MA thesis, and deregistration from Leiden University after graduation.
- Graduation procedure
- Application Form MA exam Classics
- MA thesis
- Deregistering from Leiden University
Graduation procedure
The MA programme Classics offers two collective graduation ceremonies: in October (date of graduation 31 August) and March (date of graduation 31 January). Students who finish the MA programme between the 1st of June and August 15 or between the 1st of November and January 15 participate in these graduation ceremonies. It is also possible to have an individual graduation ceremony throughout the rest of the year.
As soon as students have applied for their graduation, the Board of Examiners checks if the programme agrees with the individual study programme that they have approved of at the start of the MA. After this, the secretariat will register the graduation and take care for the diploma and the diploma supplement.
More information: Protocol graduation procedure MA Classics
N.B. Students who are not participating in the collective graduation ceremonies, can determine the date and time of their individual graduation ceremony together with their thesis supervisor/advisors and the Board of Examiners. Students should contact the secretary of the Board of Examiners if this is the case.
Application Form MA exam Classics
Students apply for their graduation by filling in the form Application Form MA Exam. They hand in this form – together with a copy of their bachelor’s diploma (students from abroad: passport) – to the secretariat (Huizinga 001).
MA thesis
Regulations concerning the procedure surrounding the Master’s thesis are determined by the faculty Humanities. The complete MA Classics thesis of max. 20.000 words (1000 per ects) includes footnotes, bibliography, images and attachments. Students are required to hand in two paper versions: one for the supervisor and one for the second advisor. Further, students send a digital version of their MA thesis to the secretariat for the archive.
Deregistering from Leiden University
Dutch students who have successfully graduated and are not planning to continue their studies at Leiden University, ought to deregister themselves via Studielink. More information in Dutch.
Students from abroad should drop by at the Student Affairs Information Desk at Plexus Student Centre to fill out the necessary forms.
Those students who receive their diploma in October (date of graduation 31 August), do not need to register for the next academic year. If students graduate individually, their date of graduation (and deregistration) depends on when the last requirement of the MA programme has been fulfilled. The date of graduation is not the same as the date of the ceremony. Students have to make clear agreements with the secretariat which date has to be put on the diploma.