Graduation Ceremony 2021

ALL students need to apply for graduation! Need to apply online via your SIS profile by selecting the term you are expected to complete all your graduation requirements. Make sure to print screen the page once you have completed this step and save it for your records. To apply go to SIS> Academic Records > Graduation > Apply for Graduation> Spring 2021 (2205)

ALL students need to declare their immersion! You need to declare it online via your SIS profile. Make sure to check your transcript or SIS after a week to confirm that the declaration went through.

a.      All students need to declare an immersion in either Economics, English, International Relations, Political Science, or Public Policy.

b.      If you are graduating with a minor, you must declare the same immersion as your minor (i.e. minor in public policy, you declare your immersion in public policy).

c.       If you are graduating without a minor, you need to only declare the immersion you have selected.

d.      If you have declared your immersion wrongfully, then you should change it online via your SIS profile.

Students planning to graduate with a minor are required to fill in a ‘Minor Authorization Form’. If you are not planning to graduate with a minor, then you need to make sure your academic advisor is informed. Instructions on how to fill in the form can be found in the RIT Kosovo forms. You can also find an example attached on how to fill it in and the form. Class details that are required in the form can be found in the SIS or SIS Class Search

a.      Students graduating in May 2021 (2205) need to bring in the form by March 30, 2021, the latest. Forms brought in later run the risk of negatively affecting your certification (delay of your BS diploma).

You need to earn a minimum of 120 credits in order to be eligible for graduation. This does not mean that as soon as you earn 120 credits, you will graduate, as they have to be earned towards your academic program.

Your overall GPA needs to be 2.0 or above. Your GPA for your concentrations need to be 2.0 or above and your GPA for your minor needs to be 2.0 or above.

You need to complete all of the required courses within general education.(see page 53 of the Academic Bulletin)

You need to complete the required courses within your selected concentration (i.e. Management students must complete financial and managerial accounting to graduate). You need to earn a minimum of 20 semester credits for each concentration. You need to earn a GPA of 2.0 and above within your concentrations.(see page 59 of the Academic Bulletin)

You need to complete the required courses within your selected minor (i.e. one cannot graduate with a minor in international relations without finishing introduction to international relations). You need to earn a minimum of 15 credits. You need to earn a GPA of 2.0 and above within your minor. If you are graduating without a minor, you will still need to take approximately five additional courses in order to fulfill the credit requirement, two arts and science electives and three courses towards an immersion.

By the end of your senior year, you need to have successfully completed two co-ops of 400 hours each. Any delay in the submission of the forms or co-ops registered in the summer will result in a delay of your graduation.

The course, senior capstone is a mandatory course for the students in their final academic year. Students taking the honors capstone are exempt from taking the senior capstone.

If you are transferring in courses, the official transcripts need to be brought in, minimum six months before your graduation date, if you want to be certified on time. Note that the transcripts need to be sealed in an envelope in order to be accepted.

All grades must be recorded and any outstanding Incomplete (“I”) grades or any change of grades must be resolved before the end of the term. Any delay can result in a postponement of your certification.

A minimum of 30 credit hours shall be successfully completed in residence at the university in the college granting the degree (inclusive of service courses). If the student has successfully completed 30 credit hours in residence, a petition may be submitted to the dean to study 10 credit hours in absentia in the final year of the degree; at a minimum, 20 of the final 30 credit hours are to be completed in residence.

The commencement day will be held in May (more information will be provided throughout the spring semester). Please see the bulletin for the policy on graduation/commencement ceremony. (see page 109 of the Academic Bulletin)

Students who will be living outside of Kosovo and have a permanent address outside of Kosovo by March 30, 2021 are recommended to change their diploma mailing address on their SIS profile to their permanent address. Students who will be living in Kosovo should have the RITK address listed as their mailing address:

RIT K, Gërmia Campus,
Dr. Shpëtim Robaj st. nn 
10000 Prishtina,
Republic of Kosovo

*Diplomas will not be mailed to other addresses within Kosovo, only the RIT K address.

All graduating students need to return their laptop to IT Office in order to remove the RIT Kosovo (A.U.K) domain membership and the associated licensed software. Please backup all your data since the computer is going to be reinstalled.

 All graduating students have the opportunity to transfer the ownership to them for a symbolic price of € 1. RIT Kosovo is offering to install the operating system (Windows 10) and MS Office Suite.

Please note that the data saved on ‘disk D’ will NOT be erased if you ask for it.

Returning the laptop is mandatory, and students who fail to do that will not receive their gown and be allowed to walk on the graduation day.

Note: Students that are allowed to walk on Graduation day but still have classes left to graduate DON’T need to return the laptop computer now.

 For an additional details, please refer to the webpage

We plan to offer to in-person celebrations for the Class of 2020 in May, again in accordance with all of the Government Measure mentioned above.

Graduates will receive a program at the in-person ceremony in May. You can also download a PDF version of the 2021 Commencement book when it is available.

At this time, no commencement receptions are being planned, due to COVID-19 restrictions.