Graduation

The University holds one commencement ceremony per year at the end of the spring semester. Only those students who have completed their graduation requirements (as certified by the Registrar) and who have met all financial obligations to the University (as certified by the Finance Office) are permitted to take part in the ceremony.

Further details on graduation certification, forms, and deadlines are available from the Office of Academic Affairs and on the University website.

For the convenience of those students completing degree requirements in the summer terms or the fall term, diplomas are not held back until the May graduation ceremony, but are issued at three points in the academic year. Students completing in either summer term will receive diplomas dated 1 September of the relevant year.

Students completing in the fall will receive diplomas dated on the last day of final examinations in December of that year. All students, however, are entitled to participate in the May graduation ceremony following the semester in which they have completed degree requirements.

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