4pm ceremonies at Royal Exhibition Building

Graduation day running times are provided to ensure that your graduation day runs smoothly. Find out where to register and collect your regalia and when to arrive for your ceremony.

1.00–3.15pm

Graduate registration and regalia collection

You must register and collect your regalia at the regalia marquee prior to entering the venue for your ceremony. The location is marked on the venue map.

Photography studios will be open during this period.

3.15pm

Royal Exhibition Building is opened to graduates and guests

Graduates enter via the north entrance (opposite Melbourne Museum). All guests enter via the door marked on the guest tickets (Nicholson St or Rathdowne St).

Graduates and guests need to have a copy of their seat tickets ready to be scanned at the door.

Photography studios close

This service will close for the duration of the ceremony. They will reopen after the ceremony.

3.40pm

Final time for graduates to be seated

Please aim to be early: it is essential that you are in your allocated seat by this time or you will be excluded from the ceremony.

4.00pm

Ceremony commences

The ceremony will run for approximately two hours.

 

Once ceremony concludes it is followed by post-event function

Refreshments served upstairs on the gallery level (duration one hour).

 

All hired regalia to be returned

Hired regalia should be returned to the location from which it was collected two hours post-ceremony (regalia marquee outside the Royal Exhibition Building).