• Albany: UWA Graduation: Albany Ceremony is scheduled for 4th December 2025. Information pertaining to the Albany Ceremony can be found below.

• Crawley (Perth): UWA Crawley Graduation Ceremonies are scheduled for Tuesday, 26 July - Friday, 25 July 2025 and Monday, 8 December – Wednesday, 17 December 2025. Information pertaining to the Crawley (Perth) ceremonies can be found here

Step 1: Apply to Graduate (18 August - 10 September)

• In Absentia application, complete your course and your award will be conferred 17 December 2025
• Attend a ceremony, see steps 2 to 6 

Step 2: Confirm your attendance (17 September - 2 October 2025)

Step 3: Email the Graduations team requesting to attend your ceremony in Albany (17 September - 2 October 2025)

Step 4: Order your tickets 

Step 5: Complete your course requirements by 26 November 2025

Step 6: Attend your ceremony!

• It is an Australian Government requirement that from 01 January 2023, all higher education students must have a Unique Student Identifier (USI) for their degree to be conferred. Students who do not have a USI by their chosen conferral date will not be graduated, and will be moved to the next conferral.
•  Please click on the link below for information on how to create your USI.

• How do I get a USI?

• Applications are open from Monday, 18 August – Wednesday, 10 September 2025.
• You will receive an email inviting you to “Apply to Graduate” in studentConnect on Monday, 18 August 2025.
• The “Apply to Graduate” deadline is Wednesday, 10 September 2025.
• It is important to “Apply to Graduate” to reserve a spot for you in the ceremony, even if there is only a small chance that you will not complete the course requirements before Wednesday, 26 November 2025.

You can apply to graduate and attend an in-person ceremony or to graduate in absentia, without attending a ceremony.

GRADUATING AS ATTENDING AT AN IN-PERSON CEREMONY

• Your award will be conferred at an in-person ceremony (either in Crawley (Perth) or Albany)
• You will receive your certificate at your ceremony

GRADUATING IN ABSENTIA

• You award can be conferred in absentia, without you attending a ceremony.
• Please be advised, once your award is conferred in absentia, you will not have the opportunity to attend a future graduation ceremony for your award.
• Your certificate will be mailed to you.

• If you applied to graduate as Attending, you will receive an email from the Graduations Team on Wednesday, 17 September 2025, asking you to “Confirm your Attendance” via studentConnect. If you are confirming your attendance for a Crawley (Perth) ceremony, this email will include the date and time of your allocated ceremony. If you are confirming your attendance for an Albany ceremony, refer to STEP 3 for Albany.
• You must confirm your attendance between Wednesday, 17 September 2025 and Thursday, 2 October 2025.
• If you have applied to attend your ceremony and you do not “Confirm your Attendance” by Thursday, 2 October 2025, your graduation status will be changed from attending to in absentia.

• IMPORTANT: Once you have completed the Confirmation of Attendance process in studentConnect, if you wish to be allocated to the Albany Graduation Ceremony scheduled for Thursday 4th December 2025, you must email the Graduations Team via askUWA between Wednesday, 17 September and Thursday, 2 October 2025, in the following format:
  
  • Select 'Graduations' from the 'My enquiry is about' drop down 
  • Subject: Albany Graduation Ceremony request
  • Message: Include your student number and the award for which you would like to graduate at the the Albany ceremony

If you do not email the Graduations Team visa AskUWA, you will be allocated to the Crawley (Perth) ceremony for your discipline even if you are enrolled as an Albany student.

Once you’ve completed your Confirmation of Attendance, you’ll receive an email from the Graduations Team with information and a link to order your academic dress. You won’t be able to order until you’ve confirmed your attendance and emailed the Graduations Office advising you would like to attend the Albany ceremony. If you don't receive the email within 24 hours, contact the Graduation Team via askUWA so your confirmation details can be checked.

GFP Graduations is the University's preferred provider of academic dress. You can obtain your academic dress from any supplier as long as the academic dress complies with the University Policy on Graduation Academic Dress (Policy Number:UP11/49). Should your academic dress not comply, you will not be able to present on stage as you will not be appropriately attired AND at a regional campus, we are unable to cater for last minute requests. 

Please order regalia at least 4 weeks prior to your ceremony to ensure the supplier is sufficiently stocked and able to be transported to Albany on time.

Academic dress prices vary according to the award that is being conferred. Full details are available on the Albany GFP Online Ordering Portal.

If you have any problems with the GFP Online Ordering Portal, please contact GFP directly: [email protected], call GFP's customer support team at Australia: 1300 360 445 - International: +61 8 8154 1388

• All academic regalia for Albany graduation attendees will be shipped directly to and from Albany Campus in one batch, by courier.
• Graduands are to collect the regalia from UWA Albany staff on the day of the ceremony from the Albany Entertainment Centre (AEC). You will receive further details from UWA Albany to specify arrangements for regalia collection and gowning closer to the ceremony date. 
• Regalia MUST be returned to UWA Albany Campus Administration Staff at the AEC immediately following the ceremony and reception.

Complimentary Guest tickets: To collect up to three complimentary guest tickets, please log in to the GFP online ordering portal from the date to be provided soon. You will be able to send your guests their electronic tickets via the portal.

• If you have not met your course requirements by Wednesday, 26 November 2025, your application to graduate (in person or in absentia) will be moved.
• Applications to attend an in-person ceremony, are moved to December 2026 ceremonies.
• Applications to graduate in absentia, will be allocated to the next available monthly in absentia ceremony, as soon as course requirements have been met.
• If you would like to review your graduation status, log in to studentConnect and click the “Graduations” tab on the left

2 weeks prior to Graduation, you will receive an email from Albany Administration, that gives you all the event-specific information for the day, for both you and your guests. 

• Once your award is conferred, you will be sent an email with how you can access your certificate and AHEGS statement via My eQuals
• My eQuals gives you the ability to access all your tertiary credentials through your own secure online portal and share them with anyone you like, anywhere in the world.
• It’s a secure and easy way for verification agencies, employers and recruitment professionals to receive and instantly verify your official tertiary credentials online.
• My eQuals removes the hassle of keeping physical copies of your credentials, making copies, getting them certified and posting them when applying for a job or further study. Everything is online and available anywhere, anytime.

• Should you have any questions, please contact Graduations via askUWA