Dates, Deadlines and Important Information
Summer Graduation 2026 will be held at Streatham campus between 13 - 20 July and at Penryn campus on 24- 25 July. Registration will commence over several days during the week of 9 March 2026 and you will receive an invitation via email which you need to action to either confirm or decline your invitation to attend.
Graduation deadlines
To ensure you can attend your graduation ceremony without any problems, please make sure you adhere to the deadlines below:
| Summer 2026 Graduates | |
|---|---|
| Date | Deadline |
| W/C Monday 9 March | Online Registration opens week commences and registration emails will be sent over a number of days in this week. |
| Monday 9 March | Supplier website for booking robes (academic dress). |
| Midnight Sunday 17 May | Deadline for completing registration. If you do not register by the deadline, you will not be able to attend your ceremony. The registration deadline is final. Late requests will not be able to be processed. |
| Monday 4 May | Deadline for clearing all remaining academic debt owed to the University. |
| Monday 28 May | Complimentary and initial additional guest tickets for ceremonies will be made available. Registered graduates will be advised of the process for this by email. Additional ticket availability is dependent on the remaining capacity in the graduation venue. The initial release will close on 19th June for us to calculate any remaining tickets available to be released on 25th June (see below). |
| Monday 8 June | Record your name pronunciation through "name check", we will email you the link. This service will close on the 22 June. |
| Monday 15 June | Deadline to update your name in SRS for the correct name to be called at graduation. |
| Tuesday 23 June | Last day for late accessible requests |
| Tuesday 9 June | PGR Students: Submit your thesis, get the examiners' report, make any needed corrections and upload the final copy to ORE by Tuesday 10 June 2025. Additionally, you must have also registered for graduation by Sunday 18th May 2025. |
| Thursday 25 June | Remaining additional tickets (subject to availability) will be released on a first-come, first-served basis. |
| Thursday 11 June | Academic dress closes, you will be charged a late fee of £8.33 +VAT for any order placed after this date. |
| Monday 22 June | Name check closes. |
Academic eligibility
- To attend the ceremony, you need approval from the University Committee, confirming your eligibility for a degree. Generally, this means passing enough credits for an Ordinary degree, which is awarded without honours.
- If you've had referred or deferred assessments, you can still participate if you've passed 300 credits with at least 60 credits at Stage 3 in your final year. This means if you have taken Stage 2 credits in your final year, you may not be eligible for graduation until all your assessments are completed.
- If we temporarily calculate an award for you for graduation eligibility, you may graduate with a lower award title related to your program. Your degree will be recalculated once all assessments are completed and you have been awarded.
- For Summer graduation 2026, you must have a confirmed award by Tuesday 16 June 2026. If not, you'll be invited to the Winter 2026 graduation instead.
- If you are awarded credits after the deadline above, these will not count towards your graduation. If you already had enough credits for a lower degree, you may be invited to graduate with that degree at the Winter ceremony or you can choose to graduate at Winter graduation 2026 when your full award is approved.
- Late awarding of credits will not change the name of your award to be announced at the ceremony.
- To attend the graduation ceremony for the 4-Year Integrated Masters program, such as MEng or MMath, you need approval from the University Assessment Committee. This typically requires passing enough credits for an Undergraduate level award. If you have referred or deferred assessments, you can still participate if you've passed at least 360 credits. This would mean you will cross the stage with a different award title (such as BSc).
- If you are unsure about your eligibility to attend, please contact the Graduation Team however, we may be only able to provide generalised information until you have been awarded.
- For Summer graduation 2026, you must have received a confirmed award on or before Tuesday 16 June 2026. If you have not received a confirmed award before this date, you will be invited to the next graduation session in the Winter 2026.
- Your award must have been confirmed by the University Assessment, Progression and Award Committee to be eligible to attend the ceremony. If any final assignments are not marked or your award is not confirmed by your discipline APAC by the deadline, you will not be eligible to attend the ceremony.
- If you are unsure about your eligibility to attend, please contact the Graduation Team, however, we may be only able to provide generalised information until you have been awarded.
- You will receive an invitation to attend the graduation ceremony once your award has been officially confirmed by the University Assessment, Progression and Award Committee. To ensure your participation, please make sure to register by the specified date.
- If you have received your award email, you award may not have yet been officially conferred, and you will need to wait until conferral to be invited to graduation.
- If your award is confirmed by the exam board or via Chair's action by 4 May 2026, you will be invited to attend the Summer graduation ceremonies in July 2026.
- If your award is confirmed after the 4th May 2026, you'll be invited to the Winter 2026 graduation instead.
- If you have received your award email, this does not confirm that your award has been officially conferred.
Submit your thesis, get the examiners' report, make any needed corrections, and upload the final copy to ORE by Tuesday 9 June 2026.
- If you're thinking about requesting an extension to your study e.g. assessment extension or deferral, be aware that it might delay when your degree is awarded and affect which graduation ceremony you can attend. Please consider this before you apply for an extension.
- If you owe money to the University for your studies, you can't graduate.
- If you're due to graduate in Summer 2026, all debts must have been paid and cleared in our Bank account* before Monday 4 May 2026.
- This is a final deadline and cannot be extended.
- Payments or clearance of funds after this date won't be processed in time for Summer graduation eligibility.
*Please note that it can take up to 9 business days for your payment provider to process the payment and for it to be credited to your account with us. Please factor this into your payment. - If you pay after this deadline (or your funds have not cleared our account by this date) and your eligibility is confirmed, you'll be invited to the Winter 2026 graduation.
- You can make a payment online - see our website for details. For assistance, contact SID on 0300 555 0444 (UK callers) or +44 (0)1392 724724 (International callers).
- If you are unsure or have any questions about your financial status, please contact SID through SID Online or as above.
Flexible Combined Honours:
You will attend the ceremony of the subject that you are majoring in (that which appears first in your degree programme title).
Transferring between ceremonies
Unfortunately due to the number of students expected to graduate, we are unable to accommodate any ceremony transfer requests. This includes anyone doing Flexible Combined Honours/Combined Honours courses.
Transferring to a future Graduation session
Due to the large numbers of students eligible for each graduation session, it is not normally possible to accommodate requests to attend graduation at a different time of year. If you have specific circumstances preventing you from attending your ceremony and would like to request a transfer to a future ceremony, please log an enquiry via SIDOnline using the category “Ceremony Session Transfer”.
Requests are considered on a case-by-case basis and depending on the attendance size of the future graduation session. Please note we cannot guarantee your request will be successful and we will not be able to give you a confirmed response to your transfer request before your assigned graduation session.
This is because of the graduation planning and organisation cycle across the year. Winter graduation sessions are scheduled in late August. Summer graduation sessions are scheduled in early February. Therefore if you are a Winter graduate requesting an exception to transfer to Summer, we will not be able to confirm to you if this is possible until the following February. This means you will need to carefully consider that if you miss your assigned ceremony session, that may be your only opportunity to attend a graduation ceremony as we cannot provide you with a response until after your original ceremony session has passed.