Degree

Your degree certificate is issued digitally and shows that you have met the requirements for your degree. You will also receive an English appendix, called a Diploma Supplement. It makes it easier for other countries to understand and recognise your Swedish degree.

Apply for degree certificate

You apply for your degree certificate in Ladok, which is a system for study documentation. You must submit the application yourself by logging in to Ladok for students. Your application should not be submitted until all courses included in your degree are marked as completed in Ladok.

• Ladok

Processing time may be up to four weeks from the point when your application is complete. Degrees in healthcare, teaching, and research are prioritised, with a processing time of up to one week.

Please note that you may not include more courses than required for your degree, for example 180 credits for a Bachelor’s degree and 300 credits for a Master of Science in Engineering.

Courses from another university

If you have completed courses at another higher education institution that are to be included as elective courses in your degree, this will be visible when you apply for your degree certificate.

After your degree is issued

Your degree certificate is digital. When it is ready, you will receive an email. You can then log in to Ladok and download it.

Programme and degree structure

Degrees are awarded at three levels: first cycle, second cycle, and third cycle. Your degree level is stated in the programme syllabus and the degree description.

First-cycle degrees include, for example, a Higher Education Diploma and a Bachelor’s degree. Professional degrees include, for example, a Degree of Bachelor of Science in Nursing and a Degree of Bachelor of Science in Engineering.

Second-cycle degrees include, for example, a one-year Master’s degree and a two-year Master’s degree. Professional degrees include, for example, a Degree of Master of Science in Engineering and a Postgraduate Diploma in Specialist Nursing.

At the third-cycle level, there are Licentiate and Doctoral degrees.

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Regulations

Degrees are governed by the Higher Education Ordinance (SFS 1993:100) and by local governing documents such as syllabus/course requirements lists, qualification descriptors, and Guidelines for the Processing of Degrees.

The purpose of the guidelines is to describe Luleå University of Technology's implementation of national and local regulations regarding degrees. The guidelines cover degrees on all levels.

Sharing and verification

Anyone who has been awarded a degree from a Swedish higher education institution can share information about their degree with a recipient of their choice, for example an employer. You can share and verify your degree if it was issued no later than 31 December 2023.

If you are a student or alumnus/alumna and have a degree, you can log in to Ladok and obtain a code to share your degree. When you give the code to someone, they can view information about your degree and its contents. If you want to see what is shared, you can log in using the code and your personal identity number. You can use the same code multiple times and share it with several recipients.

To share your degree:

• Log in to Ladok and go to “Degrees and certificates.”
• Select “Share certificate.”
• Share the retrieved verification code with any recipient.

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Verification of studies

Employers can contact examen@ltu.se for verification of a student's academic achievements.

Information about ECTS

ECTS grades replaced by ECTS Grading Table (EGT)
In order to facilitate the mobility of students within Europe, the European Directorate General of Education and Culture in Brussels issues recommendations on how grades should be transferred between universities in different European countries. New recommendations are published eve1y few years in the ECTS Users' Guide.

Until 2009 national/local grades were to be translated to what was known as the ECTS scale comprising the passing grades A-E. With the ECTS Users' Guide 2009, however, the ECTS scale was abolished, since it had proved to be difficult to implement and therefore had not been generally accepted. It was replaced by the ECTS Grading Table (EGT), which is a table presenting the distribution of the national/local grades.
Since January 2011 it is possible to p1int transcripts of records including EGT from Ladok (the national system for documentation of academic information at higher education institutions in Sweden). The EGT is generated automatically and based on all grades awarded on the course from the start until and including the date when the present student was graded.

However, the EGT of a specific course is normally only included in the transcript of records if grades from the course are available for a period of at least two years.
In the Vice-Chancellor's decision no. 21/11 (dnr 254-11) dated 8 February 2011; the Vice Chancellor cancels the right of international students to have their grades translated to the ECTS scale. Instead, all students who ask for international grades should be offered a transcript of records including the EGT.

Credits and hours

Swedish universities have a system of credit points. One and a half point corresponds to one week of full-time studies, which for the student means approximately 40 study hours per week, although the number of lectures and classes varies. One academic semester comprises 20 weeks= 30 hp/ECTS credits. One academic year (40 study weeks) of successfully completed full-time studies gives 60 hp/ECTS credits.