Graduation is the highlight of the University Centre West Anglia year, where friends, families and academic staff come together to celebrate the achievements of our graduating students.
The day will start at the College of West Anglia's King's Lynn campus with gowning taking place at the University Centre prior to the ceremony.
UNIVERSITY CENTRE
College of West Anglia
Tennyson Avenue
King's Lynn
Norfolk
PE30 2QW
Following gowning, graduands and guests will be required to make their way to King's Lynn Minster, situated in the historic surroundings of the Saturday Market Place, for their ceremony.
KING'S LYNN MINSTER
Saturday Market Place
King's Lynn
Norfolk
PE30 5DQ
08:00 to 09:30
- Graduands arrive at the University Centre for gowning and photography.
09:30 to 10:30
- Graduands and guests make their own way to King's Lynn Minster to be seated in alphabetical order with their course group.
11:00 Ceremony
- UcWA Graduation Ceremony will commence. Each graduand will be led onto the stage by their course director, will doff or raise their mortarboard in the direction of the college principal and an ARU academic, and will then be presented with a scroll by their course director, before leaving the stage and returning to their seat.
Circa 12:15
- Ceremony closes. The Mayoral party, graduates and academic staff will leave King's Lynn Minster and process around the town centre before returning to the same location.
Circa 12:45
- Graduates and their guests return to the College of West Anglia's King's Lynn campus, where refreshments and a buffet will be provided in the Hub on the ground floor of the Tower Block.
15:00 Event closes
- All academic dress must be returned to Ede and Ravenscroft in the University Centre by 16:00.
