Graduation

Professional teacher training can be completed flexibly throughout the year. The certificate application is made at Peppi. The electronic certificate can be downloaded within three weeks of sending the application.

The electronic certificate with its attachments (excerpt from study credits and Certificate Supplement) is an official certificate that we deliver only once. The official certificate should be downloaded to a location where it will not be easily lost or fall into the wrong hands. It is not possible to get a new original certificate later.

After graduation, you have completed the teacher's pedagogical studies, 60 credits, required for the position and work of a teacher in Finland in accordance with the Act on Universities of Applied Sciences (932/2014, § 8). 

Applying for Certificate

You can apply for the certificate when all of your studies have been evaluated and your study results have been recorded in Peppi. Please do not complete the certificate application before it!

  • Check the correctness of your name (first names and last name) and contact information in Peppi. The certificate is issued with the name as it stands in Peppi. Also check that your personal e-mail address is up-to-date in Peppi. The certificate will be sent to your personal email.
  • Check that all credits have been recorded in Peppi and, if necessary, contact your tutor if you notice any deficiencies.
  • Apply for the certificate in Peppi under the AMOK menu (Amok certificate application).
  • You can enter a weekday as the completion date, and it can be the date of submission of the application at the earliest. (The completion date cannot be backdated.) If the date you submitted is not accepted as the date of the certificate, you will be contacted.
  • After you have sent the application, your application will be checked and a notification will be sent to your student e-mail about the acceptance of the application. After approval, the certificate will be created and the link to the downloadable certificate will be sent to your personal email within three weeks at the latest.
  • Download the certificate as soon as possible, but no later than 30 days after you received the message that your certificate has been completed.

The processing time for a certificate application is a maximum of three weeks, except for the following periods: 21.6.–31.7. and 22.12.–6.1.

Contact if necessary:


Electronic Certificate

The electronic certificate is authentic and original. It can be submitted as an attachment to the authorities or the employer. You don't need to prove it separately. You can make copies of the file. Each unedited, saved copy is an official diploma with an electronic signature preserved. You can check the authenticity of the certificate in the online service: https://dvv.fineid.fi/validation.

An electronic certificate is reliable, because it is considerably more difficult to forge than a paper certificate. If the certificate is modified after signing, the electronic certificate, i.e. the signature, is broken, and the certificate is no longer authentic. The electronic certificate should therefore never be opened in editing mode in Word, for example, because the electronic certificate will break immediately. When you download an electronic certificate, it is automatically included as attachments

  • Transcript in Finnish and English,
  • Certificate in English and
  • Certificate Supplement


    • The electronic certificate should be uploaded to a location where it will not be easily lost or fall into the wrong hands. You can download the certificate to your own files, for example to a cloud service, computer, external hard drive or memory stick. It is recommended to save the certificate in several secure locations so that there will always be an existing backup.

    An electronic certificate is a document approved at the EU level, which complies with EU standards and is classified with the highest EU security classification.

    If the electronic certificate you downloaded is lost, a certificate corresponding to the original will be charged. Send a request for it to

    Cost for Copies of Certificates

    An original certificate is free of charge to a graduating student. The transition from paper diplomas to electronic diplomas took place in 1.3.2024. You will only receive a copy of the certificate in its original form. If you have downloaded an electronic diploma, the download link requested later is subject to a fee.

    Electronic study documents are free of charge during the study period. You can order them from Peppi. If you need a paper document, you can get it from the Student Services of Professional Teacher Education. For a student one (1) transcript of records is free of charge during the studies. If more than one copy is asked at the same time the price is two (2) euros per extra transcript of records.

    A resigned student gets a resignation certificate with a free transcript of records.

    Prices

    • A certificate with appendices 50 euros
    • Delivery as a registered letter to Finland 10 euros and abroad 50 euros
    • A transcript of records in Finnish (without a copy of Certificate) 10 euros
    • A transcript of records in English (without a copy of Certificate) 10 euros
    • Clarifications of certificates requested for working abroad or other use 50 euros/copy and the explanations they require 80 euros/hour.

    Practices

    We provide copies only on original certificates and in the same language that the certificates have been signed over for the graduate. We do not provide any translations of Certificates. If you need an official translation of your Certificate, you must get it translated by an official translator and you bear the costs yourself. We do not provide any translation services on any other certificates either.

    The copies of Certificates are given from our own archival materials. Other copy requests will be referred to other archives institutions, for example to Provincial Archives of Oulu.

    The School of Professional Teacher Education certify for a true copy only certificates and transcripts of records which they have copied themselves. Copies are given only certificates and transcripts of records which are awarded by the Oulu University of Applied Sciences. We don’t certify any other copies.

    We send your copies of certificates as a letter. By asking we can also send your copies of certificates as an encrypted email. Please see the instructions: https://ict.oulu.fi/11013/?lang=en

    Payment

    In advance to the following bank account (note we will not refund paid payments) :

    The Bank: Osuuspankki
    IBAN: FI32 5741 4020 0600 54
    BIC: OKOYFIHH
    the Payee: Oulun ammattikorkeakoulu

    It is obligatory to mention in the message field: Oamk 43000020

    You can pick up the copy of the certificate you ordered from the School of Professional Teacher Education or agree for the delivery method in advance. The receipt of the payment is included in the email, or it is delivered on the premises, if copies are picked up from there. We do not accept cash payment.

    (Rector of the University of Applied Sciences 2021. Decision 4.10.2021 § 81.)