Dates, deadlines and important information
Summer Graduation 2025 will be held at Streatham campus between 14 - 21 July and at Penryn campus on 23- 24 July. Registration will commence over a number of days during the week of 10 March 2025 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 2025 Graduates | |
|---|---|
| Date | Deadline |
| W/C Monday 10 March | Online Registration opens week commences and registration emails will be sent over a number of days in this week. |
| Wednesday 12 March | Supplier website for booking robes (academic dress). |
| Midnight Sunday 18 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. |
| Midnight Sunday 18 May | Deadline for confirming a name change for your ceremony. |
| Monday 2 June | Deadline for clearing all remaining academic debt owed to the University. |
| Monday 2 June | We recommend that you book your robes by this date. |
| Monday 2 June | 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 Sunday 22nd June for us to calculate any remaining tickets available to be released on Thursday 26th June (see below). |
| Tuesday 3 June | Name check opens. |
| Friday 6 June | Last day for late accessible requests |
| Thursday 10 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. |
| Tuesday 17 June | UG/PGT Students: You must have received a confirmed award on or before this date. |
| Thursday 26 June | Remaining additional tickets (subject to availability) will be released on a first-come, first-served basis. |
| Monday 30 June | Academic dress closes, you will be charged a late fee of £8.33 +VAT for any order placed after this date. |
| Thursday 3 July | 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 at least an Ordinary degree. If you've had referred or deferred assessments, you can still participate if you've passed 300 credits with at least 60 at stage 3. However, you may graduate with a lower award title related to your program.
- 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. Having deferred or referred assessments doesn't disqualify you if you've passed at least 360 credits. You can still participate in the ceremony, but you'll cross the stage with a different award title (such as BSc).
- For Summer 2025 graduation, you must have a confirmed award by Tuesday 17 June 2025. If not, you'll be invited to the Winter 2025 graduation instead.
- If you are unsure about your eligibility to attend, please contact the Graduation Team.
- For Summer graduation 2025, you must have received a confirmed award on or before Tuesday 17 June 2025. If you have not received a confirmed award before this date, you will be invited to the next graduation session in Winter 2025.
- 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.
- You will receive an invitation to attend the graduation ceremony once your award has been officially confirmed by the University. To ensure your participation, please make sure to register by the specified date.
- If your award has been confirmed through the exam board or via chairs action before the 12 May 2025 you will be invited to attend the summer graduation ceremonies taking place in July 2025. If your award is confirmed after the 12 May 2025 and before 17th of October 2025 you will be invited to the winter graduation ceremonies that will take place in December 2025.
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.
If you're thinking about requesting an extension to your study, be aware that it might delay when you get your degree. Consider this carefully before asking for an extension, as postgraduate students must have their award confirmed before specific dates to join upcoming graduation ceremonies. If you can't make it to the upcoming ceremony due to an extension, you'll be invited to the next one.
- If you owe money to the University for your studies, you can't graduate.
- If you're due to graduate in Summer 2025, all debts must be paid before Monday 2nd June. This is the absolute deadline. Payments or clearance of funds after this won't be processed in time for summer graduation eligibility.
If you pay after this deadline or your funds have not cleared and your eligibility is confirmed, you'll be invited to the Winter 2025 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.
