Congregation Dates for the Academic Year 2024-25

Please note there is a maximum of two guests allowed per graduand, with the possibility of applying to be placed on a waiting list for one additional ticket if available.

To register for a graduation ceremony please complete the online booking form here:

https://www.trin.cam.ac.uk/alumni/booking-a-graduation/

You can also register directly via CamSIS self-service, but will still be asked to complete the online booking form to verify your contact details for receiving further information about graduation arrangements.

The most up-to-date information regarding the dates and format of graduation ceremonies at Senate House can be found on the University’s website, but please be aware that not all dates advertised are available to Trinity College graduands:

https://www.cambridgestudents.cam.ac.uk/your-course/graduation-and-what-next/degree-ceremony-dates

Trinity College students or Alumni who are eligible to receive or celebrate degrees may do so on the following dates:

Michaelmas Term 2024

• Saturday, 30 November, 10am – in person or in absence – all degrees available (closing soon)

Lent Term 2025

• Friday 31 January – in absence only – all degrees available
• Saturday, 1 March, 10am –in person or in absence – all degrees available
• Saturday, 29 March, 10am – in person or in absence – all degrees available

Easter Term 2025

• Saturday, 3 May, 10am – in person or in absence – all degrees available
• Saturday 24 May, 10am (main MA Congregation, matriculation year 2018). In person or in absence – all degrees available

General Admission 2025 [for undergraduates proceeding to their first degree]

BA, BTh, and BA with MEng or MMath or MSci degrees only.

• Wednesday, 2 July, 10am

Undergraduate students eligible to graduate at General Admission will be contacted at the start of Easter term and given full details of how to register for graduation and what arrangements to make.

Long Vacation 2025

• Thursday, 24 July, 10am – in person or in absence – all degrees available

The July Congregation is the first opportunity for postgraduates taking an LLM, MASt or any MPhil course where exam results are expected to be published before the date of the July Congregation to have their degree conferred. It is also the first opportunity for students completing the Clinical Medicine course to have the MB conferred.

Postgraduate students may choose the date of any Ordinary Congregation to have their degree conferred and should register for their chosen date on CamSIS or by contacting the Praelector’s Administrator on degrees@trin.cam.ac.uk

Online registration for Ordinary congregations opens around 8 weeks before the date of each congregation and closes 15 days before the date of the congregation.

Celebrating a Degree Previously Conferred in Absence

If, as a result of the suspension of in person Congregations and/or the exclusion of guests from Senate House you have had a degree conferred in absence between March 2020 and March 2022, there is now an opportunity for you to have that degree formally acknowledged and celebrated in person at the Senate House.

You will attend a Congregation in the same way that you would have attended one to have your degree conferred and will celebrate your degree with exactly the same level of formality as if it were being conferred on you for the first time. The only tangible difference is that you will not have your degree certificate presented to you at Senate House. You may already have received your degree certificate, or it may be presented to you at the celebration event at College on the day.

Please contact the Praelector’s Assistant via email on degrees@trin.cam.ac.uk for more information about attending a Congregation to celebrate your degree.

Full in-person ceremonies with guests at Senate House resumed in April 2022, so from this date forward it is no longer possible for anyone choosing to have a degree conferred in absence to subsequently have that degree celebrated in person.

Conferral of the Cambridge MA Degree

Any student who graduated with a BA is entitled to take the Master of Arts Degree six years and one term after they matriculated. The MA can be taken in person or in absence on any one of the Ordinary Congregation dates listed, but the Ordinary Congregation in mid-May is the main event which all newly eligible MA graduands will be encouraged to attend if possible. Newly eligible MA graduands will be contacted early in the Lent term of attaining eligibility for the degree and invited to register to have the MA conferred.

Please ensure that you keep in touch and keep your contact details up-to-date with us so that it is easy for us to get in touch at the appropriate time.

Celebrations in College

Anyone attending a University Congregation in order to have a degree conferred or formally celebrated in person may invite a maximum of two guests to a lunch in College on the day of graduation. It is possible to request one additional guest ticket if available, but numbers for these are limited and strictly controlled by the Senate House.

In addition, if you are going to be in Cambridge on the evening before degree day, the College would be delighted if you would dine in College as the guest of the Praelector.