If you have been conditionally accepted and you are required to provide verified versions of your educational documents, please follow the instructions below. If you are not able to provide the documents by the means listed below, you will need to provide the documents either according to the country-specific requirements or according to the general instructions for officially certified copies, if the country in which you have completed your degree does not have specific requirements.
EXCEPTION: For educational documents from mainland China, you must submit certain verification reports instead of following the instructions above. Please see the country-specific requirements for China.
Educational documents sent by email by the issuing institution
You may ask that your institution sends your official electronic educational documents by email directly to the University of Lapland to the following email address:
admission@ulapland.fi
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
Educational documents shared through an electronic credential service
University of Lapland accepts official transcripts submitted electronically through the international transcript services listed below. Please request your electronic transcript to be submitted to admission(at)ulapland.fi or select the University of Lapland from the list of receivers. Please refer to the services’ own instructions for more details on how to use each service.
If your documents have been received by the University of Lapland in electronic format from one of the accepted transcript services they will be treated as originals and you do not need to provide a paper version of the documents. If your institution uses a service not listed here, please contact us at admission(at)ulapland.fi and we will check if it is possible for us to accept your documents through this service. Please note that the University of Lapland reserves the right to make the final decision on whether a service is accepted or not.
Electronically signed and electronically verified educational documents
Electronically signed educational documents
We accept documents that have been electronically signed with a valid digital signature (so called Adobe blue ribbon) by the awarding institution. A valid digital signature appears as a blue ribbon when the document is opened in Adobe Reader. The signature must be issued by the awarding institution, and the signature must be valid when the document is opened.
The University of Lapland reserves the right to evaluate each digitally signed document case by case and reject documents that do not meet the requirements.
Conditionally accepted applicants: Send the digitally signed document by email to admission(at)ulapland.fi.
Electronically verified educational documents
We accept electronic educational documents that contain a verification code that can we can use to verify the document and its contents using an electronic verification service used by the degree awarding institution.
The following requirements must be met for the the verification to be accepted:
The verification service is located on the degree awarding institution's website OR, in case of third party services, the institution provides a link to the service on their website.
The entire document can be verified using the service, i.e. the verification service must show the exact same content as the document you submitted.
Please note the following restrictions:
Institutional verification services that require downloading specific software or paying for the verification are not accepted.
Verification services that rely on the recipient to send an email to the verification service or the issuing institution are not accepted.
We cannot guarantee that we can accept verification services in languages other than English, Finnish or Swedish. If the service is available only in other languages, we will try our best to use the service. However, if we are unable to use the service due to it being in another language, you must submit your documents via some other accepted method.
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.
Regular PDF scans of educational documents are not accepted if the document cannot be verified using an electronic verification service on the institutions website.
The University of Lapland 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 via some other accepted method.