Graduation of the university of Cambridge

Graduation of the university of Cambridge

At the University of Cambridge, each graduation is a separate act of the governing body of the University, the Regent House, and must be voted on as with any other act. A formal meeting of the Regent House, known as a Congregation, is held for this purpose.

Graduates receiving an undergraduate degree wear the academic dress that they were entitled to before graduating: for example, most students becoming Bachelors of Arts wear undergraduate gowns and not BA gowns. Graduates receiving a postgraduate degree (eg PhD or Master's) wear academic dress that they were entitled to before graduating, if your first degree also from the University of Cambridge, and if their first degree is from another university, they wear academic attire as they are about to receive, the BA gown without the strings if they are under 24 years of age, or the MA gown unconditionally if they are 24 or older.

Graduands are presented in the Senate House college by college, in order of foundation or recognition by the university (except for the royal colleges), as follows.

1.     King's College

2.     Trinity College

3.     St John's College         

4.     Peterhouse          

5.     Clare College        

6.     Pembroke College

7.     Gonville & Caius College

8.     Trinity Hall

9.     Corpus Christi College

10.  Queens' College

11.  St Catharine's College

12.  Jesus College

13.  Christ's College

14.  Magdalene College

15.  Emmanuel College     

 16. Sidney Sussex College

17.  Downing College 

18.  Girton College

19.  Newnham College

20.  Selwyn College

21.  Fitzwilliam College

22.  Churchill College

23.  New Hall

24.  Darwin College

25.  Wolfson College

26.  Clare Hall                                      

27.  Robinson College

28.  Lucy Cavendish College

29.  St Edmund's College

30.  Hughes Hall

31.  Homerton College