Vocational higher education (Sweden)
Digital diplomas for yrkeshögskola: secure, beautiful, marketing-driven
Join 21+ Swedish vocational schools issuing blockchain-secured diplomas that students love to share. Automated issuing. Permanent verification. Your brand, your domain.
TL;DR
A TRUE diploma for a yrkeshögskola is issued automatically when a student completes a programme, hosted on the school's own domain, and secured by writing a cryptographic fingerprint of the document to blockchain. An employer scans the QR code and sees the verified original in seconds, without calling the school. Graduates can post the diploma to LinkedIn the day they finish, which carries the school's name into their professional network. Twenty-one Swedish YH schools already issue this way, and most schools complete the switch in two to four weeks.
- Issuing is automatic from your student system, by CSV upload or by email.
- Employers verify by scanning, with no account and no request to your office.
- The diploma carries your brand every time a graduate shares it.
The problem
Why do paper diplomas fail YH schools?
Because they cost staff time to produce, cannot be checked by an employer, and never leave the drawer. Each of those is a separate loss: administration, trust and brand visibility. The three below are what graduation season looks like today.
Every graduation season, the same routine plays out at YH schools across Sweden. Staff print diplomas. Students sign for them. The diplomas go into folders, desk drawers or storage boxes, and stay there.
- Manual issuing wastes administrative time. Hours spent formatting, printing, signing, distributing. Time that could go toward students, not paperwork.
- Paper and PDF diplomas carry fraud risk. Anyone with basic software can edit a PDF. Paper can be photocopied. Employers cannot easily verify whether a diploma is genuine, and most do not try.
- Students don’t share what they can’t share easily. A paper diploma doesn’t go on LinkedIn. A PDF attachment doesn’t get noticed. Your school’s brand gets no visibility when graduates enter the workforce with credentials nobody sees.
The result: your diplomas have zero marketing value. Your graduates don’t become ambassadors for your school. And when an employer needs to verify a credential, they are stuck making phone calls or sending emails, if they check at all.
At a glance
What breaks in the current flow
Admin burden replaces student focus.
Verification becomes manual, or gets skipped.
Brand value disappears when diplomas aren’t shareable.
If your diploma can’t be verified instantly and shared proudly, it won’t travel.
How large is yrkeshögskolan, and what happens to graduates?
Swedish vocational higher education is big enough that diploma administration is a real workload, and its graduates walk straight into the labour market, where the diploma is the document an employer asks for. The figures below come from Myndigheten för yrkeshögskolan, the government authority for the sector.
- 87,300 students studied in yrkeshögskolan during 2025, across roughly 3,300 course rounds. Source: Myndigheten för yrkeshögskolan.
- About 23,000 students graduated in 2024, a completion rate of 68.5%. Each one is a diploma that has to be produced, delivered and later verified. Source: Myndigheten för yrkeshögskolan.
- 81% of those who graduated in 2024 were in work the year after, and 58% of them in roles matching their education. Source: Myndigheten för yrkeshögskolan, sysselsättning efter examen.
Four out of five graduates are in a job within a year, which is when the diploma is handed to someone who has no way to check it. That is the moment this page is about.
The TRUE solution
What does a TRUE digital diploma do?
Three things a paper diploma cannot. It issues itself when a student completes a programme, it proves its own authenticity to anyone who scans it, and it looks good enough that graduates put it on LinkedIn.
Automated issuing
Connect TRUE to your student management system via API. When a student completes their program, their diploma is issued automatically, with no manual formatting, no printing and no chasing signatures.
For lower volumes, use our dashboard or email-based issuing. Upload a CSV, and diplomas go out to all recipients in minutes.
Blockchain-secured
Every diploma is written to the blockchain the moment it’s issued. The record becomes immutable. It cannot be changed, deleted or forged. Not by hackers. Not by anyone.
When an employer scans the QR code on your diploma, they see instant blockchain verification. No phone calls. No waiting. Just trust.
Beautiful, branded design
TRUE diplomas aren’t PDFs. They’re animated, interactive digital documents that showcase your school’s brand. Your logo. Your colors. Your design. Hosted on your own custom domain rather than on TRUE’s.
Students are proud to share them. And when they do, your school’s brand travels with the diploma.
Marketing value
Your graduates become your distribution channel
When graduates share their TRUE diploma on LinkedIn, your school’s name appears in feeds. When employers scan to verify, they see your brand. Every interaction drives awareness back to you.
TRUE customers have generated over 100 million marketing impressions from shared documents. That is reach you would pay millions for, delivered by your own graduates.
Proof
Which YH schools already issue TRUE diplomas?
Twenty-one Swedish YH schools, including YH Akademin and Yrkeshögskoleförbundet, the association for vocational higher education. Both have published case studies, linked below.
YH Akademin
One of Sweden’s leading vocational education providers chose TRUE for digital diplomas. Their students now receive blockchain-secured credentials they can share instantly after graduation.
The result: better student experience, less administrative burden, and measurable brand exposure every time a graduate shares their diploma.
Yrkeshögskoleförbundet
The Swedish association for vocational higher education modernized diploma issuance with TRUE. By moving from paper to blockchain-secured digital credentials, they demonstrated the standard for forward-thinking YH institutions.
Momentum
21+ YH customers, and growing
TRUE is the trusted choice for Swedish vocational education. Twenty-one YH schools already issue digital diplomas through the platform. The schools that made the switch aren’t going back to paper.
Why this matters now
Why are YH schools switching now?
Because the rest of the student experience is already digital, graduates want a credential the same week they finish, and employers want a check that takes seconds. Paper sits badly against all three.
Digital transformation in swedish education
Swedish education is going digital. Student portals. Online learning. Digital administration. Paper diplomas are the last holdout, and the gap is obvious to students who expect everything else to be digital.
Student expectations have changed
Graduates want credentials they can share on LinkedIn the day they complete their program. They want to build their professional profile immediately rather than wait for paper to arrive or scan documents into attachments nobody clicks.
Industry demands verification
Employers increasingly need to verify qualifications quickly. Swedish industries are tightening credentialing requirements. A diploma that can be verified instantly with a QR scan is worth more than a piece of paper that requires manual follow-up.
What YH administrators get
What do YH administrators get?
A custom domain, eIDAS compliance, several issuing routes, analytics and batch issuing. The design work happens once, and every graduation after that runs on the same setup.
Custom domain
Your diplomas live on your school’s domain, diplomas.yourschool.se, rather than on TRUE’s website. Your brand stays front and center.
eIDAS Compliant
TRUE meets EU requirements for electronic identification and trust services. Your digital diplomas carry the same legal weight as traditional credentials.
Multiple issuing options
Dashboard: Issue diplomas manually through a clean web interface
Email: Send a structured email to trigger diploma creation
CSV Upload: Batch issue to dozens or hundreds of graduates at once
API: Full automation connected to your student systems
Analytics
See when, where, and how often your diplomas are viewed and shared. Track which programs generate the most engagement. Understand your credential reach.
Batch issuing
Graduation day doesn’t have to mean chaos. Upload your graduate list, and TRUE issues personalized diplomas to everyone, with individual verification codes, correct names and program details, in minutes.
Next step
See a real YH flow
If you want to understand exactly how issuing and verification works in practice, we’ll walk you through a complete graduation scenario.
How employers verify
How does an employer verify a YH diploma?
By scanning the QR code on the diploma. The verification portal confirms the document against the blockchain record and shows the full details. No app, no account, no email to the school.
- Scan the QR code on the diploma
- Verification portal confirms authenticity via blockchain
- Full diploma details displayed instantly
No app download. No account creation. No waiting for your school to respond to verification requests. The diploma verifies itself.
Why it matters
When verification is frictionless, trust happens
If verification requires a phone call or an email chain, most checks never happen. Instant verification changes the default behaviour for employers, HR teams and auditors.
500,000+
Documents issued
200+
Organizations using TRUE
21+
YH customers
Why TRUE
Why choose TRUE over a badge platform?
Because a YH diploma is a full credential, not an achievement badge. TRUE renders it as a branded, animated document on your own domain, and the verification behind it does not depend on any single company's database staying online.
Swedish company, swedish customers
TRUE is headquartered in Stockholm. We understand Swedish education, Swedish regulations, and Swedish expectations. GDPR and eIDAS are not add-ons. They are built in.
Real YH case studies
We don’t show you American corporate examples. We show you Swedish vocational schools doing exactly what you need to do.
Blockchain security
Permanent verification that works forever. Not database lookups that fail when a company changes systems.
Beautiful design, not just badges
TRUE diplomas are full credentials: animated, branded and professional. Not small achievement badges that look like participation trophies.
The numbers
What are the numbers behind the platform?
More than 500,000 documents issued for over 200 organisations, 21 of them Swedish YH schools, secured across four blockchains and issued through five API endpoints.
| Stat | Value |
|---|---|
| Documents issued | 500,000+ |
| Marketing value saved | €9.5M+ |
| Marketing impressions | 100M+ |
| Organizations using TRUE | 200+ |
| YH customers | 21+ |
| Blockchains supported | 4 (Ethereum, Polygon, AVAX, Fantom) |
| API endpoints | 5 |
What do TRUE customers say?
Education providers issuing diplomas through TRUE, in their own words.
“Our alumni now have nice looking Diplomas in an accessible format, but we also see great marketing value! Thanks for a great product!”
“These modern and stylish educational certificates can easily be shared on LinkedIn and other digital channels.”
What do YH schools ask before switching?
Questions that come up when a Swedish vocational school looks at digital diplomas for the first time.
How do students receive their diploma?
By email, as a link. The diploma opens in any browser on the school's own domain, with no account to create and no app to install.
How does an employer verify a YH diploma?
They scan the QR code on the diploma. The verification portal confirms it against the blockchain record and shows the full details, in seconds, without contacting the school.
Can we issue diplomas from our student management system?
Yes. TRUE connects through a REST API, so a completed programme can trigger issuing automatically. For lower volumes there is dashboard issuing, CSV upload and email based issuing.
Do diplomas live on our own domain?
Yes. Diplomas are hosted on a domain such as diplomas.yourschool.se, carrying your logo, colours and design rather than TRUE's.
Is TRUE GDPR compliant, and where is the data held?
TRUE is a Swedish company headquartered in Stockholm, built for GDPR and eIDAS from the start, with data held in Europe.
How long does it take to switch?
Two to four weeks for most schools: design, template and integration, staff testing, then live issuing at the next graduation.
Can we reissue or correct a diploma after it has been issued?
Yes. Diplomas can be revoked or reissued through the API or the dashboard, and the verification status updates immediately for anyone checking.
Getting started
How long does the switch take?
Two to four weeks in most cases: design in week one, template and integration in week two, staff testing in week three, and live issuing for the next graduation. Schools with an API team in place often move faster.
- Week 1: Discovery call + diploma design
- Week 2: Template setup + integration planning
- Week 3: Test issuing with staff
- Week 4: Go live for next graduation
For schools with existing API infrastructure, the timeline is often faster.
Ready?
See how TRUE works for vocational education
Your students deserve credentials they’re proud to share. Your school deserves the brand exposure. Your staff deserves to stop printing paper.
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