Diploma supplements for professional qualifications

Whenever professional qualifications are awarded via a federal examination, the corresponding qualification is accompanied by a diploma supplement. When these qualifications are awarded upon completion of a study programme at a professional education institution (PEI), then it is the PEI that issues the diploma supplement directly, based on templates that SERI has provided to the PEI. Holders of examination-based professional qualifications who wish to obtain a diploma supplement at a later point in time should contact SERI.

As soon as a professional qualification has been referenced to the NQF VPQ, all subsequent qualification holders will be issued both their professional qualification and the corresponding diploma supplement.

In the case of federal examinations, it is SERI that issues the corresponding diploma supplement together with the professional qualification.

For study programmes, it is the professional education institution that issues the corresponding diploma supplement together with the professional qualification. SERI can provide professional education institutions with a diploma supplement template in PDF format.

Diploma supplement templates for referenced qualifications can be downloaded from SERI’s Official List of Vocational and Professional Qualifications.

Retrospective issuance of diploma supplements

SERI can issue a diploma supplement to holders of a previously awarded professional qualification. A fee of CHF 150.- is charged for this service.

However, a diploma supplement will only be issued for a previously awarded professional qualification if the following requirements are met:

• The professional qualification in question must already be referenced to the NQF VPQ when the request for issuance of the diploma supplement is made. (see List of referenced qualifications in german)
• The holder of the professional qualification must be legally authorised to use the protected title.
• The previously awarded professional qualification must satisfy the same requirements as those set forth for the current professional qualification. If these requirements are met, then the request for retrospective issuance diploma supplement is justified.
• If the requirements described in item 3 above are not met, then the diploma supplement can only be issued to a qualification holder who has gained at least five years of full-time work experience from the time he/she was awarded the professional qualification.

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• Gesuchsformular nachträglicher Diplomzusatz HBB

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