Your graduation day

1. Download the Reed Events app
   This app houses information on the location, time and other details of your ceremony and access to your guest tickets.

2. Guest tickets
   Check that your guests have received their tickets. You would have entered their email addresses during registration. If you used your own email address instead, remember to forward the tickets to your guests. Your tickets are also saved in the Reed Events app.

3. Getting to UNSW
   Please plan ahead and allow enough time to get to the venue for your ceremony. Public transport options include the Light Rail and Buses. Limited parking.
4. Arrival and ceremony times
   Guests should arrive at least 30 minutes prior to the graduation ceremony start time to find their seats. Graduates should arrive:

• 2.5 hours before ceremony: Registration and Academic dress collection opens
• 45 minutes before ceremony: Graduates must arrive and check in at their ceremony venue
• 30 minutes before ceremony: All graduates should be in the correct academic dress and seated for their ceremony.

5. Register and collect your academic dress
   If you're hiring an academic dress, you can collect these from your ceremony venue at the allocated collection times on Graduation day. Please follow the ‘Academic Dress Collection’ signs.
   
   For all graduates attending a ceremony at Sir John Clancy Auditorium, please collect from The Pavilions.
   
   You should arrive at least 1 hour and 30 minutes before your ceremony to allow time to be fitted in your academic gown. See more information on Academic Dress.

6. Check in and briefing
   You must arrive and check in at the venue at least 45 minutes prior to your ceremony. You must be gowned and in your allocated seat 30 minutes before the ceremony starts.
   
   Before the ceremony begins, a short ceremony briefing video will be played. Please watch carefully and follow the instructions provided in the video, as well as any directions given by staff during the ceremony. Before taking your seat, please leave all personal belongings except for your phone with your guests or place them in the unattended cloakroom. 

1. Seating
   Graduates are placed in allocated seats to ensure they cross the stage in the correct order.

   Guest seating is general admission. Prams are not permitted inside the auditorium due to fire and safety regulations. They can be left in the pram bay located in the venue foyer. 
   

2. Order of events
   Ceremonies run for approximately 1 hour and 30 minutes. Clancy ceremonies begin at 10am, 2pm and 6pm.
   
   Graduation ceremonies typically follow the below structure:

   - Announcement of the members of the official party
   - Academic procession enters
   - Ceremony welcome
   - Graduates invited to the stage one-by-one
   - Guest speaker
   - Vote of thanks
   - Academic procession retires

1. Celebrate with us!
   Following the ceremony, join us outside the main entrance for light canapés and refreshments. Take photos, browse graduation merchandise, and share this special moment with fellow graduates and their loved ones.
   
   
2. Return your academic dress
   Once you've finished taking photos, please return your academic dress to the Mathews Pavilions within two hours of your ceremony ending. Bring your phone to complete the return process and follow the Academic Dress Return signs. Your graduation hat is yours to keep. Wear it with pride!
   
   
3. Graduation services
   Services such as portrait photography, degree framing, plaques, gifts and UNSW merchandise are available on graduation day.
   
   Arc @ UNSW
   Academic dress, flowers and memorabilia
   View website 
   
   UNSW Gift Shop
   Purchase UNSW gifts and merchandise.
   View website
   
   Reed Events
   Photography, plaques, frames, live stream and stage photos.
   View website

Parking is limited at UNSW Kensington campus. We encourage graduates and guests to take public transport. If you’re travelling to UNSW via the Sydney light rail network, please use the L2 Randwick light rail line and disembark at the UNSW High Street stop. There are also multiple express bus services available.

• For morning graduation ceremonies during term, we recommend that graduates and their guests use public transport, as parking is limited on campus and in surrounding side streets.
• For afternoon and evening ceremonies there is some parking in surrounding streets, although some restrictions apply.
• Parking on campus is free from 7:30 pm to 11:00 pm on weekdays, and all day on weekends.

Car Parking

All day parking is available at UNSW at the top level of Botany St carpark accessible from Gate 11 OR top level of Barker St carpark accessible from Gate 14. Payment is required on arrival and can be made through Pay-by-Plate meter (located next to the lift) or by downloading the CellOPark App. See Kensington Campus Parking Map (PDF).