Doctoral studies: Official electronic educational documents

The instructions are valid during the 2025 admission rounds to doctoral programmes at JYU.

We may be able to accept electronic documents if they have been submitted either through a recognised verification service or via email by the issuing institution. Electronic documents may be accepted only if there is no country-specific requirement or if the requirement specifically permits electronic documents.

We reserve the right not to accept any electronic documents if there is any doubt about the legitimacy of the service or the identity of the sender. We will not pay any fees that may be charged for verification.

Verification services

We accept official electronic transcripts and degree certificates from the following recognised sources:

  • Digitary
  • Gradintelligence
  • My eQuals
  • National Student Clearinghouse
  • Parchment Exchange
  • Truecopy
  • some other legitimate verification service*

If the issuing institution has a contract with one of the service providers, please request for your documents to be submitted to doctoral-admissions@jyu.fi through the service. Please make sure that the full contents of the documents are verifiable.

*If your institution uses a service not listed above, we cannot guarantee that we will be able to accept your documents. Nonetheless, you can ask the awarding institution to submit the documents to us through the service. We may also be able to accept electronically signed documents and documents accessible through national databases, provided that all the necessary information is included. In all these cases, the verifiability of the documents will be assessed case by case. We may not be able to verify the documents if, for example, the service is not available in English.

Email delivery

You can request for the issuing institution to email your educational documents directly to doctoral-admissions@jyu.fi. We recommend using our secure email service.

The email must be sent from an official email address of the issuing institution, and we must be able to verify the address from their official website. If the website is not available in English, Finnish or Swedish, or if the address is not listed on the website, we may not be able to verify the sender.

Please note that submitting your documents through one of the recognised verification services or as certified physical copies is more reliable. This is because we cannot guarantee that we will be able to accept documents delivered by email due to the reasons explained above.