Graduation 2019 - a week of wonderful celebrations

What an amazing week!

Our distinguished Honorary Graduates joined 3,613 students and 8,000 guests for the highlight of the University’s calendar.

Presiding over the graduation ceremonies was our Chancellor the Rt Hon John Bercow MP and our Presiding Officers Judith Judd, Milan Makwana, Maria Stanford and Tim Porter.

Here are some of our highlights of the best week in our academic year:

Graduation 2019 in photos

Check out the University's flickr pages to see what great Graduation moments we captured on camera.

Our inspiring students

• Identical twins graduate from Essex together
• New Essex graduate named one of UK’s top black students
• Class of 2019: Sharon Nyamande
• Class of 2019: Jessie Forman
• Class of 2019: Joe Waters
• Class of 2019: Sitong Zong
• Class of 2019: Bernard Mensah and Reece Harris
• Class of 2019: William Gurton
• Class of 2019: Rasheedat Olarinoye
• Melissa Johns is named as Alumna of the Year

Our inspiring Honorary Graduates

We awarded six Honorary Degrees at Graduation 2019. Here are some of these distinguished people.

• Harry Murray, MBE
• Bruce Galleway
• Tony Sewell, CBE
• Betty Makoni
• Max Whitlock, MBE
• Phil O’Donovan

All the ceremonies, including the Honorary Graduate speeches are available to watch on our Facebook page.