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Award Certificates

This page gives information on how certificates are issued. If you already have your certificate and require authorised certificate copies, or have lost your certificate and require a replacement, please see the links at the bottom of this page.

Your certificate will be issued in one of the following ways:

  • If you attend a Degree Ceremony you will normally be presented with your certificate on the day of your ceremony;
  • If you register to defer your ceremony to a future ceremony date, your certificate will be issued on the day of your future chosen ceremony. It cannot be issued before this time;
  • If you are not eligible to attend a degree ceremony, or choose to graduate in absentia, your certificate will be posted to you or can be collected from the Student Information CentreLink opens in a new window, Senate House (please allow for up to 8 weeks posting from the ceremony/conferral). If you are to be awarded a sub-degree qualification (e.g. Postgraduate Diploma) and wish to collect your certificate, please use our Contact Us service to let us know that you wish to collect it, otherwise we will post it to the home address on your record;
  • In a small number of cases, departments arrange local ceremonies for some sub-degree qualifications. In these cases, your certificate will be collected by your department and presented at that ceremony, or, posted out to you via the department;
  • Occasionally, we make arrangements for the award certificate to be sent via the University's international representatives for onward distribution/collection. This applies to graduates of the overseas IGDS programmes run by WMG, where debt is outstanding to the centre.

If you require proof that your award has been conferred by the Senate/Steering Committee before receiving your certificate, you may request a Confirmation of Award letterLink opens in a new window from the Student Information Centre. Letters can only be requested after the recommendation of the Board of Examiners has been approved by the University's Senate/Steering Committee. Please wait for confirmation of your award from Student Records before requesting one.

We will notify you via email when your certificate has been posted/is ready for collection and kindly ask you not to contact us asking when your certificate will be issued, as this will only serve to delay issuing of certificates while we respond to such emails. Please understand that it will take a number of weeks to issue all certificates. Please allow up to 8 weeks for delivery if your certificate is being posted.