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KI 0126 What happens to my user account when I leave?

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When you leave the University of Bergen, your user account will be closed. You will then lose access to the University of Bergen’s services, such as your stored files, e-mail, eduroam, etc.
Students
When you no longer are a student, your user account will be closed after you finish your last semester. If you finish in the autumn,  your user account will be closed on 1. February, and if you finish in the spring semester on 1. September.

If you choose to terminate your studies so that your right to study expires and your exam bookings are cancelled, your user account will be closed one moth after termination of your studies.

Before your user account is closed, you will receive a notification by email. In this notification you can find a link to a self service form where you may extend your user account by six months.

Employees
Employees’ accounts are closed when employment ends.

A local approver on the employees department can convert the user account to a long term guest account (for up to 12 months at a time) on request from the employee. This possibility is used eg. for pensioners.

Please note (both employees and students)
  • Six months after a user account is closed, all stored data will be deleted.
  • Accounts on Microsoft Office 365 are closed 30 days after the UiB account is closed.