PhD Diploma

Withdraw your diploma during the Graduation Ceremony

1. Ensure that you have followed all of the steps required to be invited to the ceremony of the year 
   - The 2022 PhD Graduation Ceremony was held on July
   - The date of the 2023 PhD Graduation Ceremony has not yet been set
   - You can find out about the registration procedure for this event

2. Present yourself at the graduation office within the time slot specified on the program of the ceremony, and with a valid identity document

• Are considered as an identification document : national ID card, passport, driving license (for French nationals)

Withdraw your diploma during the year

1. Make sure you have taken all the necessary administrative steps to withdraw your diploma via the ADUM tool.
   - Second deposit made and validated with your library
   - Diploma production request signed and sent to your school
2. When your diploma parchment is available, you will be informed by your ED assistant or doctoral school administrator, who will send you a link to make an appointment. You can then choose the time slot that suits you best.
3. Once the appointment made, present yourself with a valid identity document. Are considered as an identification document : national ID card, passport, driving license (for French nationals)

Have your diploma withdraw by a third party

If you can not get your diploma yourself, you entrust a third party to do it (see procedure). For this, you will need:

1. As for the withdrawal in person, to ensure that all of the administrative procedures necessary to ask the withdrawal of your diploma had been made via ADUM
   - 2nd electronic deposit attestation of the thesis and the " conditions of diffusion of his thesis " dated and signed by the new doctor
   - Request for the production of his/her diploma, dated and signed by the doctoral student

2. To establish a proxy to that third party
3. To contact the graduation departement to make an appointment at the adress bellow :
   diplomes.doctorat@universite-paris-saclay.fr
   This appointment can be made by the doctor or the third party 
4. Once the appointment made, the third party has to present himself with a valid identity document

• Are considered as an identification document : national ID card, passport, driving license (for French nationals)

The department of academic affairs will contact you when the diplomas will be available (see procedure).

Receive your diploma in a French consulate or embassy abroad

If you or a third party cannot come in person to the graduation service, your diploma will therefore be sent through the service of the diplomatic pouch to the relevant embassy or consulate of France.

• We will not send diplomas either by mail or by private service (see procedure). For this you will need:
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1. As for the withdrawal in person, to ensure that all of the administrative procedures necessary to ask the withdrawal of your diploma had been made via ADUM
   - 2nd electronic deposit attestation of the thesis and the " conditions of diffusion of his thesis " dated and signed by the new doctor
   - Request for the production of his/her diploma, dated and signed by the doctoral student
2. To search the consulate or embassy of France in the nearest to your place of residence abroad 
3. To make a request to send the degree abroad via this form
4. To contact the graduation department to make an appointment at the adress bellow :
   diplomes.doctorat@universite-paris-saclay.fr
5. To send by email to the graduation deprtment the following documents :
   - Proof of residence abroad
   - A copy of a valid identity document

• Are considered as an identification document : national ID card, passport, driving license (for French nationals)

The department will contact you when the diplomas will be available (see procedure).