‘P’ without a piece of paper

Starting next year, RUG students will no longer receive a propaedeutic degree. The university is doing away with the diploma.
By Peter Keizer / Translation by Sarah van Steenderen

The RUG has concluded that the propaedeutic degree is too heavy an administrative burden for the registrar’s offices because they also have to prepare the bachelor’s and master’s certificates. Moreover, many students never even pick up their ‘P’, as the propaedeutic certificate is often called. More than enough reason to get rid of the piece of paper, thought the Board of the University.

Students that passed all the first year courses can still request a certified list of grades, says spokesperson Gernant Deekens. ‘Students can use that to be admitted to a different bachelor programme, as it has the same value as a propaedeutic certificate’, he says.

Ceremony

Faculties will still be allowed to hold a ceremony to close out the propaedeutic phase. Instead of the ‘P’, they can print out the list of grades and hand that over to the students. ‘We’ll be adding a phrase to that list of grades to indicate that the propaedeutic phase has been concluded’, said rector magnificus Elmer Sterken during a University Council meeting on Thursday.

Although the certificate will be abolished starting September 2017, the propaedeutic phase will continue to exist.

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