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Degree conferment regulations
This page sets out an extract from the regulations governing the conferment of degrees. Please read them carefully to ensure your graduation runs as smoothly as possible:
No candidate for a degree of the University shall be entitled to use the rights and privileges of the degree until such time as the degree has been formally conferred at a Congregation of the University.
Degree Certificates bear the date of the Congregation at which the Degree is conferred.
Graduands are required to present themselves for the conferment of degrees suitably dressed and wearing the gown, hood and cap appropriate to the degree to which they are to be admitted.
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Degrees may be conferred on candidates in person or in absentia. In response to a letter of enquiry which will be sent to them, candidates must notify the University Registry:
either -
- That they wish to attend the specified degree Congregation and have their degrees conferred in person
- That they wish to have their degrees conferred in absentia
- That they are unable to attend the specified Congregation but wish to have their degrees conferred in person at a Congregation in the following year.
If such notification is not received by the Registry by the date prescribed in the letter of enquiry, the degree will be conferred in absentia.
If candidates who had given notice of their intention to be present in accordance with 3(a) above are, in the event, unable to attend the Congregation, their degrees will be conferred in absentia.
No person eligible for the award to a degree of the University shall be admitted to the degree unless he or she shall first have paid such University and College fees and other charges as are due and has complied with the Library regulations concerning the return of books.