Ceremonies

Information for LSE staff

Staff-facing information about the graduation ceremonies at LSE

Information for LSE staff about the graduation ceremonies, including how to confirm your attendance and how to pronounce student names.

Upcoming ceremonies

December 2024

 

Confirming your attendance

The booking deadline for ceremony attendance passed on the 11 of November.

If you have any queries about your ceremony attendance please contact ceremonies@lse.ac.uk

Pronunciation guide

For suggested pronunciation of common names provided by the LSE Language Centre and links to external audio files visit Pronunciation guide

Which students attend which ceremony

Students on the following programmes will be invited to attend the ceremonies in July:

  • All undergraduate programmes

  • Standard MSc programmes with a June programme end date*

  • PhD students who are awarded prior to 30 April in the same year

  • Executive LLM students who are due to be awarded in June of the same year

  • MSc in Health Economics, Policy and Management (from 2019 onwards)

  • Executive MSc in Evaluation of Health Care Interventions and Outcomes, in collaboration with NICE (from 2023 onwards)

  • Executive Global MSc Management

  • Executive Master of Public Administration

  • Executive Master of Public Policy

  • Executive MSc in Behavioural Science

  • Executive MSc in Cities

Students on the following programmes will be invited to attend the ceremonies in December:

  • Standard MSc programmes with a September programme end date*

  • PhD students who are awarded prior to 30 September in the same year

  • Executive LLM students who are due to be awarded in September of the same year

  • Executive MSc in Political Economy of Europe

  • Executive MSc in Social Business and Entrepreneurship

  • Executive MSc in Health Economics, Outcomes and Management in Cardiovascular Sciences (from 2020 onwards)

* Students who resubmit their dissertation early will still attend the December ceremonies with the rest of their programme. It is not possible for students who resubmit their dissertation early to attend the July ceremonies.