Graduation Ceremony

Dear Graduating Student,

According to the decision of the Dean of ELTE Faculty of Humanities, the Graduation Ceremony of the spring semester of AY 2024/2025 is being organised at the time and place below:

Participation

You must indicate your intention to participate from 16:00 on 23rd June 2025 (Monday) until 23:59 on 28th June 2025 (Saturday) by filling in the Neptun request 'BTK Registration for the Graduation Ceremony Summer 2025’ under Administration -> Requests. 

If you do not fill in the request by the deadline, or you indicate in the request that you are not participating, there will be no more opportunities for registering for the Graduation Ceremony, and you will be able to pick up your degree certificate only after the ceremony, in-person.

Graduating students can invite maximum three guests to the venue of the Ceremony, which means that maximum three guests can enter Gólyavár and take their seats there. For tracking the number of entering persons, guests will receive entrance armbands at the registration desk. Therefore, we kindly ask graduating students to arrive at the registration desk with their guests together. Gólyavár has two halls: Mária Terézia hall (upstairs), where the Ceremony will be held, and Pázmány Péter hall (downstairs) where guests can watch the ceremony live on a screen.

In case you invite more than three guests to the Ceremony, the rest of your guests can take their seats in Pázmány Péter hall. According to demand, further locations will be provided at the Campus for watching the Ceremony live on screen. (Faculty Council Hall (='Kari Tanácsterem' - room 39 in Building A  and Room 172 in Building B).

Picking up your degree certificate after the Ceremony

If you cannot participate in the Graduation Ceremony, you can pick up your degree certificate after the Ceremony, in-person or by an authorized representative in the following times:

• Between 22nd - 24th July 2025: every day between 9:00-12:00 és 13:00-16:00
• From 1st September 2025: in the office hours (Mon.: 13:00-16:00, Wed.: 9:00-12:00 and 13:00-16:00).

International students can pick up their degree certificate in Office 24 of building A (ground floor) (1088 Budapest, Múzeum krt. 4/A).

How to authorize someone to pick up your diploma, in case you can't stay in the country until the Graduation Ceremony?

Please note that an authorized representative can pick up the degree certificate only by handing in an official authorization form.

Find the authorization form here (section: 'Graduation Affairs'; document: 'Letter of Authorization').

The authorization form must be prepared before you leave the country and signed with original signatures by four people: the student (you); the authorized person (indicated as 'commissioner' at the document); and two witnesses.

Do not forget to mention in the form what you give authorization for (that the person picks up your diploma on your behalf.)

You don't have to send the signed authorization form beforehand; the authorized person has to submit this form when they pick up your diploma.

Please, note that the person picking up the degree certificate must present their ID before receiving the document.

If you would like to use the diploma outside of Hungary, you might want to have it apostilled. You can authorize someone for this process, too. In this case, you have to prepare at least two copies of the authorization form (and do not forget to mention in the form that you give authorization to the apostille process, too). For more information, please scroll down to section 'How to make your diploma Apostilled?'.

Pictures taken at the Ceremony

At the Graduation Ceremony, pictures and a video will be taken by the photographer of the Faculty of Humanities. The pictures can be ordered at foto-video@btk.elte.hu. More information (in Hungarian): http://foto-video.elte.hu/.

Extension of residence permit, plane tickets, validation of diploma 

If you would like to use your Hungarian diploma in your home country or any other country, you have to go through an administrational process in order to validate your degree. You will get the details after your Final Examination.

It is important to plan ahead the extension of your residence permit. The validation process may take 2-3 weeks, so calculate your travel date and extension date like this. Regarding the extension process, please read this guide.

How to make your diploma Apostilled?

Please read all detailed information here.

Stay with ELTE, and register for our international Alumni Chapter

The ELTE International Alumni Chapter is an alumni association of all international students graduated at ELTE and those who had student status at least during one semester at ELTE but graduated at other university.

We hope that after returning home, you will maintain contact with your Alma Mater, friends and professional colleagues from Hungary. With us you can maintain your worldwide friendships and reach further learning opportunities.

Become a member of our International Alumni chapter and be part of a valuable international community. Join us and stay in touch!

Thank you for your kind cooperation!

BTK Office of Educational Affairs

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