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Help for guests

If you are attending a degree ceremony as a graduand's guest, you may find the FAQs on this page helpful.

Degree ceremony seating

Accessibility and guests

Graduand line-up outside

Degree ceremonies

Academic degrees date from the second half of the twelfth century. The present ceremony retains all the essential features of its historic predecessors, with the proceedings still conducted in Latin.

Degree ceremony gowning

Guidance for students

If you are a student or a former student booked onto a degree, you may find the FAQs on this page helpful.

Streaming a degree ceremony

On the day

This page will help provide you with additional degree ceremony resources such as live streaming, and a detailed degree ceremony brochure.