We congratulate you on successfully defending your thesis! There are a few more steps you need to complete until the graduation ceremony:
Step 1: Fulfil your duties to the University
After you defend your thesis, to receive a diploma you have to return all the books to the library and your study programme department, pay your debts to dorms and to the university (if you have any), and fulfil your duties to the International Relations office and Career Centre. You can see on your is.vu.lt whether you have fulfilled all your duties (Studies>Students settlement with the university). When the first 5 boxes are ticked, we will tick the administration box without any additional requests, and you will have fulfilled all your duties to the University. Sometimes it takes a few days until all the information is updated in the system, so please be patient, there's no need to contact the Studies Department additionally.
Step 2: Signing in to the diploma registration journal
If graduates want to receive their diplomas during the ceremony, they must physically sign the diploma registration journal. Signing is available only when all duties to the university are fulfilled – when all boxes on your is.vu.lt are ticked. It is not possible to put your electronic signature in the journal as well as sign the journal on the Graduation ceremony day. If you are not able to sign the diploma registration journal before the ceremony, you will receive a copy of your diploma during the ceremony; the original version of your diploma will be available for pickup after the Ceremony in the Department of Studies or at other times (agreed individually). If you do not plan to attend the Graduation ceremony, there's no need to sign the diploma registration journal beforehand – you will be able to do it on site when you arrive to pick up your diploma. Diplomas of the graduates are kept at the Faculty for one year after graduation.
You can sign the diploma registration journal if you have fulfilled all your duties to the University. Please be informed that you are only able to sign the diploma registration journal once the diplomas are printed – so you will not be able to do it immediately after the defence committee sitting or the next day. All students will be informed individually about signing in to the diploma registration journal via their university e-mail and VU IS.
The signing in the diploma registration journal will take place in Studies' Department in the Faculty.
The times you can come in and sign in the diploma registration journal are as follows:
June 17: 2 p.m.–8 p.m.
June 18: 9:30 a.m.–1 p. m., 2 p. m.–8 p.m.
June 19: 9:30 a.m.–1 p.m.
Step 3: Graduation ceremony
We would like to remind you that mantles are not considered as a tradition at our University. Graduates often choose University Students' hats. The dress code of the ceremony – official.
The graduation ceremony for graduates of 2025 will take place on June 20, 2025, in the church of Saint Johns (Šv. Jono street 12).
From 10:00 until 12:00, the diplomas will be awarded to the graduates of these study programmes:
- English Studies (postgraduate)
- English Philology (undergraduate)
- Intermedial Studies of Literature (postgraduate)
- Italian Philology (undergraduate)
- Linguistics (postgraduate)
- Lithuanian Philology (undergraduate)
- Literary Anthropology and Culture (postgraduate)
- Semiotics (postgraduate)
- Scandinavian Studies (undergraduate)
- Languages and Cultures of the Nordic and Baltic Sea Region (postgraduate).
From 13:00 until 15:00, the diplomas will be awarded to the graduates of these study programmes:
- English and Another Foreign Language (undergraduate)
- Spanish Philology (undergraduate)
- Classical (Latin and Ancient Greek) Philology (undergraduate)
- Classical studies (postgraduate)
- Polish Philology (undergraduate)
- French Philology (undergraduate)
- Russian Philology (undergraduate)
- Translation (undergraduate)
- Translation (postgraduate)
- German Philology (undergraduate).