Ceremony Dates Summer 2025

Ceremony dates by School

Tuesday 1 July 2025 at 3pmSchool of Law
Wednesday 2 July 2025 at 11am

Moray House School of Education & Sport

All undergraduate degrees

Edinburgh Futures Institute

Wednesday 2 July 2025 at 3pm

Moray House School of Education & Sport

All PGDE and postgraduate degrees 

Thursday 3 July 2025 at 11am

School of Literature, Languages & Cultures

All degrees EXCLUDING those listed below 

Thursday 3 July 2025 at 3pm

School of Literature, Languages & Cultures

The following degrees only:

Master of Arts with Honours in

  • Celtic
  • Celtic and Archaeology 
  • Celtic and French
  • Celtic and Linguistics
  • English and Scottish Literature
  • English Literature
  • English Literature and Classics
  • English Literature and History
  • Scottish Ethnology
  • Scottish Ethnology and Archaeology
  • Scottish Ethnology and Scottish History
  • Scottish Literature and Classics
  • Scottish Literature and History

Master of Science in

  • Film Studies
  • Film, Exhibition and Curation
  • Literature and Society: Enlightenment, Romantic and Victorian

Research postgraduate degrees in the subject areas listed above

School of Divinity

Friday 4 July 2025 at 11am

School of Philosophy, Psychology & Language Sciences

All degrees EXCLUDING those listed below

Friday 4 July 2025 at 3pm

School of Philosophy, Psychology & Language Sciences

The following degrees only:

Master of Arts with Honours in

  • Philosophy
  • Philosophy and Economics
  • Philosophy and English Language
  • Philosophy and English Literature
  • Philosophy and Greek
  • Philosophy and Linguistics 
  • Philosophy and Mathematics
  • Philosophy and Politics
  • Philosophy and Psychology

Research postgraduate degrees in Philosophy

School of Health in Social Science

Saturday 5 July 2025 at 11am

Edinburgh Medical School 

MBChB only

BSc Oral Health Sciences

Saturday 5 July 2025 at 3pm

Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies 

Undergraduate degrees only

Monday 7 July 2025 at 11am

Business School

All degrees EXCLUDING those listed below

Monday 7 July 2025 at 3pm

Business School

Master of Business Administration in

  • Executive Business Administration

Master of Arts with Honours in

  • Accounting and Business
  • Accounting and Finance

School of Economics

Tuesday 8 July 2025 at 11am

Deanery of Biomedical Sciences 

(excluding the degree of Bachelor of Medical Sciences)

Tuesday 8 July 2025 at 3pm

College of Medicine & Veterinary Medicine 

(postgraduate degrees in the Deaneries of Clinical Sciences, Molecular, Genetics & Population Health Sciences, Edinburgh Medical School and Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies but excluding the Deanery of Biomedical Sciences.)

Deanery of Biomedical Sciences 

(the degree of Bachelor of Medical Sciences only)

Wednesday 9 July 2025 at 11am

School of Engineering

All degrees EXCLUDING those listed below

Wednesday 9 July 2025 at 3pm

School of Engineering

The following degrees only:

Bachelor of Engineering and Master of Engineering in

  • Chemical Engineering
  • Civil Engineering
  • Structural and Fire Safety Engineering
  • Structural Engineering with Architecture

School of Physics & Astronomy

School of Chemistry

Thursday 10 July 2025 at 11am

School of Social and Political Science

All degrees EXCLUDING those below

Thursday 10 July 2025 at 3pm

School of Social and Political Science

The following degrees only:

Bachelor of Medical Science degrees

Bachelor of Science with Honours in

  • Social Work

Master of Arts with Honours in

  • Social Anthropology
  • Social Anthropology and Politics
  • Social Anthropology and Social Policy
  • Social Anthropology with Development
  • Sociology
  • Sociology and Politics
  • Sociology and Psychology
  • Sociology and Social Anthropology
  • Sociology and Quantitative Methods

Master of Science in

  • International Development 
  • Global Challenges
  • Sociology and Global Change

Master of Social Work degrees

All postgraduate research degrees 

Friday 11 July 2025 at 11amSchool of Mathematics
Friday 11 July 2025 at 3pmSchool of Informatics
Saturday 12 July 2025 at 11amSchool of Biological Sciences
Saturday 12 July 2025 at 3pmSchool of GeoSciences
Monday 14 July 2025 at 11am

Edinburgh College of Art

  • School of Design
  • Edinburgh School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture
Monday 14 July 2025 at 3pm

Edinburgh College of Art

  • Schools of Art
  • History of Art 
  • Reid School of Music
Tuesday 15 July 2025 at 11am

School of History, Classics & Archaeology

The following degrees only:

Master of Arts with Honours in

  • History (single honours only)
Tuesday 15 July 2025 at 3pm

School of History, Classics & Archaeology

All degrees EXCLUDING those listed above

Whilst the above information is accurate at the time of publishing, the day, date and time of ceremonies may be subject to change prior to the registration form opening. The definitive date and time of each student's ceremony will be confirmed in their graduation invitation email.

Information for returning graduates

Graduates who have deferred their graduation will have their ceremony details confirmed when the graduation registration form opens and are not guaranteed to be returning to their School's ceremony.