Graduation

Graduation is a great time for you, your family and friends to commemorate all the hard work you have put into achieving your qualification. It is a time to reflect on all you have learned and celebrate as you close one chapter of your life and start another.

A graduation ceremony will be held in December of each year. Mid-year graduands may choose to graduate in June without attending a ceremony or wait until December and attend the ceremony.

Graduating this year?

You must apply if you wish to graduate and receive your certificate. A $50.00 "Application to Graduate" fee applies. This is an administrative fee and applies to all graduating students. If you wish to attend the graduation ceremony then you are also required to hire your own academic dress.

Please check that you have completed all the requirements of your qualification. If you have completed, or expect to complete, study for your qualification in the current semester, you need to check with your faculty that you have met the requirements for your particular programme.

Auckland Campus Graduation Ceremony

The next graduation ceremony at our Auckland campus will be held at the Trusts Stadium Arena, Henderson, on 10 December 2011 at 12:00pm.

Please contact graduation/laidlaw.ac.nz or 09 836 7829 for more information.

Information Sheet - Auckland Graduation (December 2011) (94 KB)

Academic Dress - Auckland Graduation (December 2011) (103 KB)

Christchurch Campus Graduation Ceremony

The next graduation ceremony at our Christchurch campus is on 23 March 2012. Please apply early to help us process your application and determine your eligibility to graduate.

What to wear to graduation (Academic Dress Hire)

Certificate graduands:

Formal dress is required (including a tie). An academic gown is NOT worn.

Diploma graduands:

A Diploma gown must be hired and worn over formal dress. Laidlaw College provides a hood. A mortar board is NOT worn.

Degree/GradDip graduands:

A Bachelor’s gown and mortar board (trencher) must be hired and worn over formal dress. Laidlaw College provides a hood. GradDip graduands are NOT required to wear the hood from their undergraduate degree.

Postgraduate graduands:

A Master’s gown and mortar board (trencher) must be hired and worn over formal dress. Laidlaw College provides a hood.

If you have any questions, please contact the Graduation Committee on graduation/laidlaw.ac.nz, or by phoning 09 836 7829.