Certificate, Diploma & Co.: TUM Graduation Documents

The date of completion (= date of certificate) is the date of the last successfully passed examination and/or fulfilled degree requirement, often a colloquium or oral defense of your thesis (confer § 25 (1) General Academic and Examination Regulations).

In accordance with § 18 subsection (1) APSO students must be enrolled in the respective program until completion and submission of the final thesis (Bachelor's Thesis or Master's Thesis). This also applies if the period for writing the thesis was extended for reasons beyond a student’s control.

For all other exams, however, the time up to the first week of lectures in a semester is part of the exam period of the previous semester. Therefore, enrollment until the end of the previous semester is sufficient to take exams in this period. For exams which take place until the end of the first week of classes of the new semester, re-enrollment is not mandatory. This is also true for the mandatory colloquium (Bachelor) or mandatory presentation (Master) usually associated with a final thesis. Students who have submitted their final thesis in the previous semester therefore do not have to be enrolled for a colloquium or presentation which takes place until the end of the first week of classes.

Learn more about withdrawal  after a successfully completed progam

As soon as your last degree requirement has been recorded in TUMonline, you need to check all the data relevant for your graduation documents: Your personal data, the allocation of your credits, the title of your thesis. Confirm to the Academic Programs Office of your department or school, that all the data in TUMonline is correct. The Graduation Office and Academic Records department will then issue your graduation documents.

As soon as your documents are ready to be handed out to you, you will be notified by post or via email. This is the first official notification regarding your degree. Retain this document in a safe place; it may be required at a later date for certain official matters, such as applying for a child allowance.

Graduation documents are sent by registered mail. Please send the appropriate request by e-mail or mail to the Central Examination Office at your campus in Munich, Garching or Weihenstephan: 

• Request for postal delivery of graduation documents – Campus Munich
• Request for postal delivery of graduation documents – Campus Garching
• Request for postal delivery of graduation documents – Campus Weihenstephan

Students at Campus Straubing please send their request to the responsible contact persons at Campus Weihenstephan.

If you want your graduation documents to be sent to another person, you can indicate this in the request for postal delivery of graduation documents. No letter of authorization is required for this.

However, if another person is to pick up your graduation documents on site at the Graduation Office and Academic Records department on your campus, an according authorization must be presented upon pickup.

• Authorization for collection of final graduation documents (PDF, 0.1MB)

Degree Certificate

Contents:  overall grade, academic title as well as grade and topic of the bachelor’s or master’s thesis
Language: German and English
Date: date of the last successfully passed examination and/or fulfilled degree requirements (confer § 25 (1) General Academic and Examination Regulations)
Signed by: Chairperson of the Examination Committee

Certificate Annex (grading table)

Content: overview of your individual grades showing your rank among the other graduates of the same degree program.
Language: German and English
Signed by: not signed

Diploma

Contents: certification of the awarded academic degree (e.g., Bachelor of Sciences, Master of Sciences). You may first bear the academic title after the diploma has been issued to you (confer § 26 General Academic and Examination Regulations).
Language: German and English
Date: same as listed on the certificate
Signed by: President of the TUM

Diploma Supplement

Contents: Information on the university degree and the qualifications that the degree entails, as well as information on the bearer of the certificate.
Language: English
Date: same as listed on the certificate
Signed by: Chairperson of the Examination Committee

Transcript of Records (ToR)

Contents: documentation of the student’s academic performance listed in accordance to a European-wide standard

• successfully completed courses and modules
• ECTS-credits
• grades

Language: German and English
Signed by: Chairperson of the Examination Committee and member of staff of the Graduation Office and Academic Records department

You can file an application for a preliminary degree certificate at your responsible Graduation Office and Academic Records department.  As a rule, the preliminary certificate can be issued immediately when the overall grade and date of certificate are certain.

The preliminary certificate contains the following information:

• date of graduation
• academic degree program
• date of certificate
• academic title (to be borne only after the final diploma has been received)
• overall grade

Preliminary degree certificates are, as a rule, sent by mail. Please send the appropriate request by e-mail to mail to the Graduation Office and Academic Records department at your campus: 

• Request for postal delivery of preliminary degree certificate – Campus Munich
• Request for postal delivery of preliminary degree certificate – Campus Garching
• Request for postal delivery of preliminary degree certificate – Campus Weihenstephan

Students at Campus Straubing please send their request to the responsible contact persons at Campus Weihenstephan.

The Graduation Office and Academic Records department at the Weihenstephan Campus only issues certifications of official graduation documents that were acquired at TUM.

Please send your requests by e-mail with the subject "Beglaubigungsstelle Weihenstephan" to studium(at)tum.de and include your enrollment number.

Certified copies can only be made on the basis of the original document.

The following fees apply:

• for diploma, degree certificate, transcript of records and diploma supplement: € 5 (in total)
• for the grading table: € 5
   

TUM Notarization Office

Graduation Office and Academic Records
Campus Weihenstephan
Alte Akademie 1
85354 Freising

Office hours: Monday - Thursday, 8:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
At present, personal appointments are only possible by prior arrangement.

Alternatively, certifications can be obtained at any seal bearing institution, for example at the local Regional Administration Office (Kreisverwaltungsreferat) or city hall.

Confirmed transcript of records may be obtained at any time from your responsible contact at the Graduation Office and Academic Records department at your respective campus.