Attending a graduation ceremony

The graduation ceremony is a special moment and respected tradition where we honour the achievements of our newest graduates. 淘片资源网 hosts a series of graduation ceremonies each season, across several of our locations.

While you don’t need to attend, it can be a great opportunity to celebrate with your peers, family and friends.

Upcoming ceremonies

Brisbane ceremonies are available to graduates who've received their congratulations email prior to close of business Friday 17 October 2025.

Important dates

Monday 8 September 2025 | Registration opens + Summer Ceremony Invitation email
Friday 17 October 2025 | Final day to receive your Congratulations Graduand! email to attend a Summer ceremony
Midnight Sunday 9 November 2025 | Registrations and payments close.

Ceremony times and disciplines

Graduates may attend any ceremony date/time which suits them and their guests*.

Tuesday 2 December

9.30 am - Creative Arts & Media; Education; Humanities & Communication; Business & Commerce + All Disciplines (FULL TO CAPACITY)
1.30 pm - Law & Justice; Information Technology; Engineering & Built Environment; Sciences; Health & Community + All Disciplines (FULL TO CAPACITY)
5.30 pm - All Disciplines (FULL TO CAPACITY)

*Ceremonies will fill quickly, so we encourage you to register immediately to avoid missing out.

Toowoomba ceremonies are available to graduates who've received their congratulations email prior to close of business Friday 17 October 2025.

Important dates

Monday 8 September 2025 | Registration opens + Summer Ceremony Invitation email
Friday 17 October 2025 | Final day to receive your Congratulations Graduand! email to attend a Summer ceremony
Midnight Sunday 9 November 2025 | Registrations and payments close.

Ceremony times and disciplines

Graduates may attend any ceremony date/time which suits them and their guests*.

Tuesday 9 December

9.30 am - Law & Justice; Information Technology; Engineering & Built Environment; Sciences; Health & Community + All Disciplines (FULL TO CAPACITY)
1.30 pm - Creative Arts & Media; Education; Humanities & Communication; Business & Commerce + All Disciplines (FULL TO CAPACITY)

*Ceremonies will fill quickly, so we encourage you to register immediately to avoid missing out.

These ceremonies are available to graduates who have received their congratulations email prior to close of business Monday 26 January, 2026.

Important dates

Monday 12 January | Registration opens
Monday 26 January | Final day to receive your Congratulations Graduand! Email to attend an Autumn ceremony
Midnight Sunday 1 February | Registration closes

Ceremony times

9.30 am – Sciences, Engineering & Built Environment, Information Technology, Health & Communicty, + All Disciplines
1.30 pm – Business & Commerce, Law & Justice, Humanities & Communication, Education, Creative Arts & Media + All Disciplines
5.30 pm – All Disciplines

These ceremonies are available to graduates who have received their congratulations email prior to close of business Monday 20 June, 2026.

Important dates

Monday 1 June | Registration opens
Monday 20 June | Final day to receive your Congratulations Graduand! Email to attend a Winter ceremony
Midnight Tuesday 30 June | Registration closes

Ceremony times

To be announced at a later date.

These ceremonies are available to graduates who have received their congratulations email prior to close of business Monday 26 October, 2026.

Important dates

Monday 28 September | Registration opens
Monday 26 October | Final day to receive your Congratulations Graduand! Email to attend a Summer ceremony
Midnight Monday 2 November | Registration closes

Ceremony times

To be announced at a later date.

These ceremonies are available to graduates who have received their congratulations email prior to close of business Monday 26 October, 2026.

Important dates

Monday 28 September | Registration opens
Monday 26 October | Final day to receive your Congratulations Graduand! Email to attend a Summer ceremony
Midnight Monday 2 November | Registration closes

Ceremony times

To be announced at a later date.

Important information

Please remember, that you can only complete the following steps after you've received your congratulations email and before the closing date for ceremony registrations.

Select 'Graduations' in your Student Centre, through .
Look for your program with ‘Deferred Graduation Ceremony’ in brackets. E.g. Master of Public Health (Deferred Graduation Ceremony).
On your graduations program page, you will see:
- Graduation status, including a message congratulating you on completing your academic program.
- Completed Program Completions Readiness Check.
- Graduation Ceremony Registration.
If you haven't already, please complete the 'Program Completions Readiness Check'
Under ‘Graduation Ceremony Registration’, select your program. If this is your first time attempting to register for a ceremony, the status should show 'Not started'.
Select ‘I would like to attend a Graduation Ceremony’.
Click the ‘start’ button to continue through the registration.
Complete your registration, including payment of your Ceremony Fee (AUD150). Academic dress sizing will be confirmed two weeks prior to the ceremony.

Your AUD150 Ceremony Fee includes your loaned academic dress, light refreshments for you and your guests, and ceremony print program/s. After the ceremony you'll keep your mortarboard or Doctoral bonnet & chord. The Ceremony Fee is the same for all graduates and must be paid prior to the deadline.

If you have previously registered for a ceremony but needed to cancel, please email graduations@unisq.edu.au with your preferred ceremony date and time.

At your ceremony, we’ll have our gowning team available to fit you with your relevant academic dress, based on your:

level of study (Undergraduate, Masters etc.)
discipline (Business, Nursing etc.).

Costs

Costs for academic dress are included in your graduation Ceremony Fee, which includes your gown, hood or stole, and headwear.

A small number of students, typically Doctoral graduates, might choose to buy their own academic dress. If you do decide to purchase from our supplier, , please allow 1 - 2 months for manufacturing and delivery.

Sizing

You will be asked to confirm your sizing for your academic dress details two weeks before your graduation ceremony. Keep an eye out for an email from us with a link to Reed Events, where you will go to access your guest tickets and enter your academic dress sizing.

Academic dress loan conditions

Please note, the following conditions apply to the loaned items of your academic dress:

Items cannot be removed from the graduation ceremony venue.
Items must be returned within an hour of the conclusion of the graduation ceremony.
A cleaning charge will be applied to items returned in a soiled condition.
Items not returned will incur a fee for the full replacement value.
Providing your own academic dress for the ceremony does not alter the Ceremony Fee.

What to wear

We encourage you to wear smart attire rather than casual clothing or casual footwear to your ceremony. Additionally, academic dress can be quite warm, so keep this in mind when selecting appropriate clothing to suit your ceremony location and date.

Discipline hood and stole colours

Discipline	Colour
Business	French Grey - BCC.188
Commerce	Indian Yellow - BCC.6
Creative Arts and Media	Pearl White - BCC.151
Education	Lilac - BCC.176
Engineering	Claret - BCC.36
Surveying	Maroon - BCC.39
Health and Community	Peacock Green - BCC.123
Humanities and Communication	Pearl White - BCC.151
Information Technology	Signal Red - BCC.208
Law and Justice	Spectrum Violet - BCC.214
Sciences	Spectrum Blue - BCC.86

Academic dress by award

Award	Gown	Stole / Hood	Headwear	Image example
Certificate	Black Cambridge BA style	Black stole, lined 5 cm in discipline colour	Nil
Associate Degree, Diploma, Advanced Diploma	Black Cambridge BA style	Black stole, lined 5鈥痗m in discipline colour (Assoc. Degree in Education: fully lined)	Black mortarboard with black tassel
Bachelor and Bachelor (Honours)	Black Cambridge BA style	Black Cambridge full hood, lined 10鈥痗m in discipline colour (Combined degrees: add recognition cord in second discipline colour if applicable)	Black mortarboard with black tassel
Graduate Certificate/Diploma and Postgraduate Certificate/Diploma	Black Cambridge BA style	Black Cambridge full hood, lined 10 cm in discipline colour	Black mortarboard with black tassel
Master	Black Cambridge BA style	Fully lined in discipline colour (MBA: grey with Indian Yellow edging)	Black mortarboard with black tassel
Doctor of Philosophy and Professional Doctorates	Black Cambridge doctoral style, faced in discipline colour or PhD faced in Cardinal Red	Black Cambridge full hood, fully lined in discipline colour or PhD lined in Cardinal Red	Black velvet bonnet with discipline colour cord/tassel or PhD Cardinal Red cord/tassel

At the beginning of each graduation ceremony series, 淘片资源网 hosts a Cultural Sashing and Completion Ceremony, which recognises and celebrates specifically the achievements of First Nations students who have completed their pathway, Undergraduate or Postgraduate programs or Doctorate.

If you're a graduating First Nations student, we would love to have you at the ceremony.

At the Ceremony, you’ll be presented with a First Nations stole for you to wear at your graduation ceremony, lined with colours representing:

Aboriginal
Torres Strait Islander
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander.

For more information on Cultural Sashing and Completion Ceremonies, please contact the College for First Nations.

A group of people smile and pose outdoors at a graduation event, with one person in academic regalia standing in the center.

College for First Nations

The day of your ceremony is exciting, but also busy! If you haven’t been to a graduation ceremony before, check out the so you know what to expect.

To make your day as enjoyable as possible, we’ve put together a list of things to know and bring on the day as well as approximate timing.

Before the day checklist

Make sure you and your guests have a copy of your tickets, either print these out or have them ready on your phone. Anyone without a ticket will not be permitted to enter the event [precinct or be seated in the ceremony.
Share the with your loved ones who can’t attend in person so they can access the livestream at your ceremony time.
Familiarise yourself with parking at your venue. There is signed accessible parking available close to the venue and a set-down area for dropping off at the venue entry. Parking information for each venue can be found below.
- parking
- parking
As you cross the stage, you will ‘doff’ the Chancellor. You can practise this before the day by watching our .

Your timeline for the day

We’ve listed indicative times for your ceremony day below. You can also watch our short which takes you through what happens on ceremony day. You can anticipate spending around four hours at your event.

Brisbane			Toowoomba
9.30 am ceremony	1.30 pm ceremony	5.30 pm ceremony	9.30 am ceremony	1.30 pm ceremony	Activity
7.45 am	11.45 am	3.45 pm	7.15 am	11.15 am	Park, pay and walk to the event entry.
8.00 am	12.00 pm	4.00 pm	7.30 am	11.30 am	Gates open to the event venue. Only graduates and guests with tickets are allowed to enter the event precinct.
8.30 am	12.00 pm	4.00 pm	7.30 am	11.30 am	Collect your graduate gowning, register your attendance, confirm your name pronunciation, collect your callers card, testamur tube and Alumni gift. Once you are ready, you and your guests can access pre-ceremony studio photography and check out the merchandise vendors.
8.30 am	12.30 pm	4.30 pm	8.30 am	12.30 pm	Guests seated in allocated seats. Seat numbers appear on guest tickets. Check for Door or Balcony details.
By 9.00 am	By 1.00 pm	By 5.00 pm	By 9.00 am	By 1.00 pm	Graduates seated in allocated seats. Seat numbers appear on your graduate ticket.
9.30 am	1.30 pm	5.30 pm	9.30 am	1.30 pm	Ceremony commences.
10.30 am approx.	2.30 pm approx.	6.30 pm approx.	10.30 am	2.30 pm	Ceremony concludes. Light refreshments are served. Final opportunity for studio photography and merchandise.
11.30 am	3.30 pm	7.30 pm	11.30 am	3.30 pm	Return your gowning. Your headwear is yours to keep. Depart the event precinct.

Photography

On the day, will take your stage photo and provide you with an opportunity for graduation portraits, including with friends and family.

Ceremony recordings

Your edited ceremony video will be available for you to download for three (3) months after the ceremony date.

Location	Date	Time
Ipswich	3 Sep 25	1:30 PM
		9:30 AM
	2 Sep 25	5:30 PM
		1:30 PM
		9:30 AM
	1 Sep 25	5:30 PM
Toowoomba	2 Apr 25

	1 Apr 25

A graduate in cap and gown shakes hands with a university official during a graduation ceremony on stage.

When you register for your graduation ceremony, you will be given the option to add guest tickets. The number of guests will depend on your ceremony venue.

Children and prams

Babies under 12 months don’t require a guest ticket but need to sit on a guest’s lap.
Children over 12 months require a guest ticket.
Prams can be brought into the venue precinct but need to be left outside the ceremony.

Visa support

By request, 淘片资源网 can provide a letter to be used in support of a visa application for you or your guests to attend your graduation ceremony. If you are a graduand/graduate who has already registered for a current graduation ceremony, paid the Ceremony Fee and needs a letter of support, please use the Ceremony Invitation Letter Request online form.