Application documents

In the Online Admission System, at Step 8: Supporting documents you can upload digital copies of the documents that are required to process your application. Alternatively, you can send hard-copies of your documents to the relevant Faculty Admissions Office. Please note that this may increase the processing time of your application, since we will have to wait for the documents to arrive. Therefore, we strongly advise you to use the upload option in OAS.

Which documents are required may differ per programme. To minimize the processing time of your application it is very important that you carefully check the relevant Faculty information on admission requirements to find out which application documents are required for the programme of your choice.

Required documents

Documents that generally will be required for all programmes are:

• A copy of your valid passport (the page(s) in your passport mentioning your personal data and previous visa to the Netherlands) or ID card. Please make sure the copy is legible.
• A (certified) copy of your diploma(s). If they are not in English, Dutch, French or German, please also provide a certified translation in English, Dutch, French or German. If you have not yet completed your educational programme, please send a statement of expected date of graduation signed by your school.
• A (certified) copy of your transcripts (list of grades). If they are not in English, Dutch, French or German, please also provide a certified translation in English, Dutch, French or German. If you have not yet completed your educational programme, please send temporary transcripts showing the grades you have received to date. In that case, please also send us a list of courses that are not on the temporary transcripts but that you will have to take to complete your programme.
• A letter of motivation, explaining why you are applying for admission to the programme (no more than 650 words).
• Your Curriculum Vitae/Resume, including your personal details, previous education (list of all schools / institutions which have issued diplomas and dates of attendance) and relevant work experience.
• If you apply for a programme taught in English: a copy of an English language test result. The University of Groningen requires all applicants to degree programmes taught in English to submit proof of English language proficiency. All faculties will accept IELTS tests, Cambridge tests, and TOEFL tests. Acceptable minimum scores may vary per faculty/programme.
• If you apply for a programme taught in Dutch: a copy of your NT2 result.
• For Master applications only: two letters of recommendation. These should be from academic staff and should be signed and printed on official paper of your home university.

IMPORTANT: Please note, that to enable us to start processing your application you can initially upload/send uncertified copies of your diploma and transcripts. Based on these documents we can come to a conditional admissions decision. However, before you can be officially and unconditionally admitted, you will have to provide us with the original diploma and transcripts, or with certified copies.

Certification

A copy is considered to be officially certified if one of the following authorities confirms the correspondence of the photocopy to the original: the Admissions Office of the University of Groningen (bring the original documents as well as the copies); your home university/school; an official authority responsible for certifications (e.g. the Dutch Embassy or Consulate in your country of domicile) or a public notary office (bring the original documents); authorities in the home state of the applicant that have the right to provide documents with the so-called “Apostille of The Hague” (under the terms of the Hague Convention Abolishing the Requirement of Legalization for Foreign Public Documents, 5 October 1961).

Please note that before you can submit your application through OAS, you have to provide at least a copy of your passport/ID; a copy of your diploma(s) (or in case you have not yet received it: a statement of expected date of graduation signed by your school); a copy of your (temporary) transcripts (list of grades); a letter of motivation; your Curriculum Vitae/Resume.