Please read this information carefully to ensure a smooth graduation.

Important information about the confer date and the graduation ceremony date

• Confer Date: This indicates the graduation session that you are eligible to graduate (provided you have no outstanding fees or disciplinaries). The confer date is reflected on your academic record. UCT’s student system records one confer date per graduation session which means that the first date of the graduation session is used for all students and all qualifications.
• Graduation Ceremony Date: This is the date when the formal graduation ceremony takes place, where you will have the opportunity to celebrate your achievements with friends, family, and fellow graduates. Please note that while the graduation ceremony date may differ from the confer date, it will always occur on or after the confer date and never before.

Please keep this in mind as you prepare for graduation.

Autumn 2025 Graduation

Please note that, as per the 2025 graduation notice which has been available since January 2024 under the ‘Notices’ sub-heading on this page’s side-column, only students who are added as qualifiers on system and clear fees by 19 December 2024 are eligible for the Autumn 2025 graduation. The Autumn 2025 graduation is provisionally scheduled from 31 March 2025 to 4 April 2025. The Autumn 2025 graduation information will be available in January 2025.

September 2024 Graduation

Graduation documentation

You will receive the following documentation at the ceremony:

• Your original hard copy certificate and one hard copy of your official transcript.
• One electronic certificate and one electronic transcript. This will be emailed to your @myuct account after graduation ie, between 16 September 2024 and 7 October 2024.

If you have not received your electronic documents and don’t follow up within three months, you will only be able to receive an electronic transcript through the Student Records Office. If a certificate received after graduation is subsequently lost, damaged or stolen, graduates may apply for a duplicate certificate through the Student Records Office. The fee for a duplicate certificate is currently R800.

If you will not be attending your graduation ceremony:

• You are not required to RSVP or let us know that you will not be attending.
• It is not possible to elect to defer your attendance to a future date. If you are not able to attend the graduation ceremony, you will graduate in absentia. No correspondence will be entered into regarding the deferment of graduation.
• You will be able to collect your certificate from the Student Records Office (Masingene Building, Middle Campus) or request courier delivery via reg-records@uct.ac.za from 16 September 2024 onwards. It will not be possible to receive your certificate before this date under any circumstances.