Submitting original documents

These instructions are for applicants who are offered admission to Diak in the Joint application to higher education spring 2026.

If you applied with a qualification completed outside Finland and are offered admission to Diak, your admission is conditional until we have verified the qualification you applied with. If your admission is conditional, you will be notified of the condition via email and you will also see the condition at Studyinfo.

If you wish to accept our offer of admission, you are required to submit your original degree certificate/diploma to Diak’s admission services for verification.

If your original degree certificate/diploma is not issued in Finnish, Swedish or English, you are also required to submit an official translation of the document into Finnish, Swedish or English. The translation must be made either by an authorised translator or by the awarding institution. The translation needs to bear the translator’s signature and/or stamp.

Deadlines for submitting your documents

Please note that the required documents need to reach Diak by the deadlines below. We recommend that you submit your original documents to us as soon as possible after making the decision to accept our offer.

• If you are offered admission on or before 1 June 2026, the deadline for submitting the original documents (with official translations, if required) is 15 June 2026.
• If you are offered admission on or after 2 June 2026, the deadline is 14 days after you received the Offer of admission email from Studyinfo.
• If you applied with a qualification that you finish in spring/summer 2026, you are required to submit your original degree certificate/diploma (with official translations, if required) to the admission services by 11 August 2026.

If your documents and translations do not reach Diak by the deadline, your conditional admission will be cancelled.

How to submit your documents?

Please check the list of qualifications below to see which documents we need.

When submitting your documents, you can either

1. Send electronically signed or electronically verified documents by email to Diak’s Admission Services. Please note that we must be able to verify the entire document using an electronic verification service on the awarding institution’s website or in a third-party service, if the institution provides a link to the service on their website. We must be able to access the verification service free-of-charge and without registration or downloading software. OR
2. Ask the awarding institution to send copies of your original documents as PDF files by email to Diak’s Admission Services. Only PDF files sent directly from the awarding institution are accepted. Please note that the email must be sent from an official institutional email account of the awarding institution and we must be able to verify the email address from the institution’s public website. The sending email address must belong to the official office or designated staff responsible for the issuance of educational documents. Documents sent from other email addresses or in other formats are not accepted. OR
3. Send your original documents to us by using postal or courier services. Because the documents need to reach Diak by the deadline, we recommend that you use courier services. Please note that if you send your documents to us by using postal or courier services, we will return them to you when you arrive on campus to start your studies.

Please state your full name and application number in all correspondence.

Contact details for Admission Services

Email address: admissions@diak.fi

Postal address:

Diaconia University of Applied Sciences
Admission Services
PO Box 12, FI-00511 Helsinki
Finland

Phone number: +358 (0) 400 725 384 (regular phone service hours: Mon–Thu 10am–11am and 12pm–2pm, Fridays closed). Please see the Admission Services webpage for exceptions.