Your graduation ceremony

Celebrating your success

Aerial shot of students at a graduation ceremony

Graduation ceremonies

Week beginning 20 October 2025

Ceremony venue: Theatre Royal Plymouth, Royal Parade, Plymouth, PL1 2TR.

(The timetable for this graduation will be available here soon)

Week beginning 8 December 2025

Ceremony venue: The Guildhall, Plymouth, PL1 2BJ.

(The timetable for this graduation will be available later in the year)

Eligibility

Only students whose awards have been confirmed by their faculty office can attend a graduation ceremony. If you are unsure about your eligibility, please contact your faculty office.

Students and guests are responsible for their own travel and accommodation arrangements and other costs, and should ensure that such arrangements include appropriate cancellation and amendment rights, or that they have obtained appropriate insurance to cover such cancellation, amendments or losses.

Preparing for your graduation

Information about booking your academic dress, planning your day and everything else you need to know about your graduation will be available on this webpage in the coming months.

Important information about receiving your certificate

Collaborative programmes

If you studied a collaborative programme with a partner institution, please contact your institution for information about your certificate.

Non-collaborative programmes

Once your award has been conferred, your degree certificate will be posted to the home address you have registered on your student portal. Please ensure this information is up to date and correct. You can update your home address by logging in to the Student Portal.

Certificates posted to UK addresses are sent using Royal Mail second class. Certificates posted to international addresses are sent using standard international airmail (this is not a tracked service and can take up to 28 days to arrive).

If your home address is overseas and you wish to receive your certificate by tracked DHL Express Worldwide courier, please contact examsandawards@plymouth.ac.uk, who will guide you accordingly. Please note that the cost for tracked DHL delivery is £20.

Update your contact details

It is a requirement of all students to keep their contact details up to date. This includes a residential full address (including postcode/area code/country), telephone number, mobile number and personal email address. Please ensure that you check and update your details regularly. Instructions on how to update your details can be found on the Student Portal.

Student Portal

Graduation at the Minster Church of St. Andrew

Your graduate community

Graduating from Plymouth means you're now part of a thriving alumni community making a difference across the world. We're incredibly proud of you and hope you feel the same way about us.

Your lifelong connection with us offers you many benefits, including careers support for three years after graduation and a host of alumni events around the world to help you to network and stay in touch with your old university friends.

Join the alumni community today

Contact the graduation team

Email: graduation@plymouth.ac.uk
Telephone: +44 1752 586399
Address: The Graduation Team, 008 Hepworth House, University of Plymouth, Drake Circus, Plymouth, Devon, PL4 8AA, United Kingdom
Twitter: @PlymUni
Facebook: /plymouthuni

In any communication regarding graduation ceremonies, please quote your full name, telephone number, student reference number and programme of study. Please note that to be fair to all students, we can only discuss ceremony details with the student who is graduating. Unfortunately this does not include family and friends. Thank you for your understanding.