Providing Original Upper Secondary Documents
Have you been admitted to a Bachelor's programme at the University of Turku? Congratulations! Here you find instructions on how to submit your previous educational credentials for verification.
Please note that these instructions are only for students starting their studies in a Bachelor's Degree Programme and who have applied with upper secondary credentials.
If you have already finished a Bachelor level degree and you are using that to prove your eligibility to university studies, please follow the country specific requirements for Master’s level programmes.
All documents, including ones sent directly to the university by your previous institution must reach the University of Turku by the deadline. Giving incorrect/false information or failing to provide the university with the required documentation will directly lead to the cancellation of the admission.
Deadlines for submitting the documents
Bachelor's degree students: 31 May 2025
If you applied with an incomplete degree, the deadline is 11 August 2025.
Questions about verification?
Contact Admission Services: admissions(at)utu.fi.
How to proceed?
Please read the instructions below.
Have you applied with:
You do not have to submit the documents for verification as they have been verified electronically during the application process. We will contact you in case we need further information of your degree.
If your educational document is an International Baccalaureate diploma, you must order a Transcript of Grades from IBO and ask them to send it to the Admissions Services of the University of Turku. University of Turku will get the final grades electronically from IBO.
If your educational document is Reifeprüfung/Die Deutsche Internationale Abiturprüfung (completed in Finland) or a European Baccalaureate Diploma you need to provide the University with the original document for verification. Please see the delivery options below.
You need to submit the upper secondary certificate(s) according to these requirements:
- The original certificate (in the original language) AND an English, Finnish or Swedish translation of the certificate.
- Also certified copies of the originals, given by the awarding institution or Finnish Digital and Population Data Services Agency are accepted.
- All translations must be made either by an authorized translator or by the awarding institution. Each page of an official translation must bear the translator’s stamp and/or signature. Official translations must be exact translations of the original documents. Translations done by the applicant him- or herself are not accepted.
Please see the delivery options below.
How to provide the documents?
Does your home institution use an electronic credential service to share official educational documents directly to third parties? For example, Parchment, Digitary, TrueCopy, MyEquals etc.
Yes: Please share your official educational document directly to the University of Turku through the service. University of Turku accepts documents submitted electronically through the international transcript services listed below. The transcript must always be verifiable from the service. Please request your electronic transcript to be submitted to admissions(at)utu.fi or select the University of Turku from the list of receivers. Please refer to the services’ own instructions for more details on how to use each service.
- Parchment Exchange (https://www.parchment.com/)
- Truecopy (http://www.electronictranscripts.com)
- National Student Clearinghouse (http://www.studentclearinghouse.org/)
- Digitary (http://www.digitary.net/)
- My eQuals (https://www.myequals.edu.au/receiving-documents/)
- Credentials Solutions / TranscriptsNetwork / Credentials Inc. (http://www.credentialssolutions.net/)
- Vitnemålsportalen (https://www.vitnemalsportalen.no/hvordan/)
- Gradintel (https://gradintel.com)
- Ladok (https://www.student.ladok.se)
If your institution uses a service not listed here, please contact us at admissions@utu.fi and we will check if it is possible for us to accept your documents through this service. Please note that the University of Turku reserves the right to make the final decision on whether a service is accepted or not.
No: See the next option
Does your home institution issue official electronically signed or electronically verified educational documents?
Yes: Please send the electronically verified PDF document to the Admission Services at admissions(a)utu.fi for verification.
The University of Turku accepts electronic educational documents that can be verified using an electronic verification service on the awarding institution’s website.
- The entire document must be verifiable using the service: the service must show the exact same content as the document you submitted.
- If the service verifies only parts of the document, we do not accept the document as officially certified. Instead, submit the original according to country specific instructions.
Please note that we cannot guarantee that we will accept verification services in languages other than English, Finnish or Swedish. If the electronic document verified by the service is not available in English, Finnish or Swedish, you must submit an official translation of the original document as well.
University of Turku reserves the right to evaluate each electronic document and verification service case by case. If we cannot verify the required information, you must submit the document in another way (see the options below).
No: See the next option.
Can your home institution send a copy of your official educational document as a PDF-file directly to the Admission Services?
Yes: Please ask that your home institution sends your educational document directly to the Admission Services.
If your institution does not use any electronic credential services to share official educational documents nor awards electronically verifiable documents, you may ask that your institution sends your official electronic educational documents by email directly to the University of Turku to the following email address:
admissions@utu.fi
and use the phrase Utu-docs in the subject of the email.
In order for the document to be accepted, certain requirements must be met:
- The email must be sent from the issuing institution’s official institutional email account
- The sending email must be verifiable on the institution’s public website
- The sending email must belong to a person or office that is responsible for issuing official educational documents, for example: registrar’s office, controller of examinations, awards and graduation department etc.
- The attached document must be in PDF format
Documents sent by email that do not meet the above requirements are not accepted. Please give the above instructions to your institution's representative when requesting that they send your documents.
The documents must follow the country-specific requirements if applicable.
No: See the next option: providing documents as physical documents
If none of the electronic options above are available to you, you must send your official educational documents as physical documents to the Admission Services.
- The documents must follow the country-specific requirements if applicable.
- The documents must be originals or certified copies of the originals, given by the awarding institution or Finnish Digital and Population Data Services Agency.
- Postal address: Admission Services is part of the Student Centre Disco - please see the contact details for submitting the documents.
- We recommend using courier services - it is always the applicant's responsibility to make sure that the documents arrive by the deadline.
- You will get the original documents issued to you back after they have been checked.
Postal address:
Admission Services, University of Turku, FI-20014 TURKU, Finland
Address for courier services:
Admission Services, Student Centre Disco
University Hill (Yliopistonmäki)
University of Turku
20500 Turku, Finland