Congratulations!
Graduation is one of the highlights of our academic year. It is a time to celebrate your hard work and achievements, and to mark the start of your next adventure. We look forward to sharing this unforgettable day with you and your guests.
Summer Graduation 2022
We are pleased to welcome you to our Summer Graduation ceremonies in July 2022. More information on each Graduation can be found here, and detailed schedules for all ceremonies will be published on our Schedules page.
Additional guests can visit the Colchester Campus with you on the day of your Graduation, but will not be able to enter the ceremony or departmental reception without a guest ticket.
For ceremonies where additional guests tickets are available, these can be purchased on the day. If you wish to purchase additional tickets, please go to LTB 6 two hours before your ceremony is due to start where the team can help you.
Unfortunately, we cannot guarantee that additional tickets will be available or confirm to you before the day the number of tickets available.
The Graduation ceremony will be screened live in the Lakeside Theatre on the campus and any guests without tickets are welcome to use this facility to watch the ceremony. Children under five are welcome to watch the ceremony in the Lakeside Theatre too so long as they are accompanied by an adult.
Please ensure you review the University’s Graduation COVID-19 Policy (.pdf). The COVID-19 Graduation Policy sets out the arrangements the University of Essex has in place to deliver our commitments to safeguarding the health, safety and wellbeing of all members of the University and wider community in response to COVID-19, while delivering a high quality Graduation experience for our graduates and their friends, family and supporters.
We will be holding a week of additional ceremonies for our 2020 and 2021 Graduands whose ceremonies were postponed due to COVID-19 and who were eligible but unable to attend one of Spring ceremonies. These ceremonies will take place between Friday 22 and Friday 29 July 2022. We have now published the schedule for these ceremonies, including the timing of each ceremony.
If you have any queries relating to graduation you can contact us at graduation@essex.ac.uk.
Please make sure you update your external email address in myEssex as all eligible graduands will be contacted directly via their external email with Graduation updates and booking information.