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Academic Regalia, Line-up Card, and Guests

Academic Regalia, Line-up Card, Tickets and Guests

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How to reserve, pick up, and return your regalia:

STEP 1
Reserve your Regalia
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  • Regalia reservation will begin in early May 2026.ÌýThe link to reserve your regalia will be available here.ÌýPlease refer to our FAQs for details about on site regalia reservation.Ìý
  • Graduates will not be able to cross the stage without regalia and their line-up card

  • To determine what regalia looks like for your degree, refer to the list here
  • The Spring 2026Ìýceremonies will be ticketed events
  • Graduates will be able to purchase up to four (4) guest tickets ($20+tax/per ticket).
  • Graduates will be sent an email in mid-April with information on how to how to purchase tickets for guests

STEP 2
Pick up your line-up card and regalia

  • Check the scheduleÌý(below these steps) to find out when you can pick up your line-up card, cap, gown, and hood (regalia). At the pick up location, you must go to the line-up card table before you proceed to the regalia pick up station.ÌýThe schedule is posted below.
  • You must bring:
    • Your ɬÀï·¬ ID card (or any other government-issued photo ID)
    • A bag or garment bag and hanger to carry your regalia
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  • If someone else is picking up your regalia and line-up card,Ìýyou must complete this 3rd Party Authorization form. They must provide government-issued photo ID at pick up
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  • Review On Convocation Day to prepare for the event! IMPORTANT: You must arrive an hour and a half BEFORE the start of your ceremony, with your regalia,Ìýline-up card, and ticketÌýto line-up

STEP 3
Return your regalia
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  • Your cap*, gown, and hood must be returned according to the below schedule
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  • You willÌýbe charged $210 for bachelors, $202 for masters, and $724 for doctoral regalia, plus taxes, if you do not return your regalia
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  • Transcripts will not be issued until your regalia is returned or the fees are paid
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  • *Note: PhD recipients must return their doctoral beefeaters (cap). Undergraduate and masters recipients may keep their mortarboard hats

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IMPORTANT: you must pick up your regalia BEFORE your convocation ceremony. Graduates cannot cross the stage without their regalia.

Pickup Schedule

  • The Pickup & Return Schedule will be posted here by mid-April 2026.

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Line-up Card

The line-up card lists yourÌýpreferred name,Ìýdegree, and any honours you have been awarded. The information on the card will be read by the convocation orator as you cross the stage at the ceremony. Line-up cards are automatically generated for graduating students. They must be picked up prior to your convocation ceremony, according to the schedule.

Convocation awards and prizes will display in the Convocation program butÌýnotÌýon the line-up card. Convocation awards and prizes that have been approved by Senate also display on your transcript.

Convocation honours (e.g. Dean's Honour List, Distinction) willÌýbe read at the ceremony, will display on your line-up card but do not appear in the Convocation program. Honours also display on your transcript.Ìý

Guests

The Spring 2026 Convocation ceremonies are ticketed events. Graduates will be able to purchase up to four (4) guest tickets ($20+tax/per ticket). Infants that are less than two years old and will be sitting on an adult's lap will not require a ticket.

Information on how to purchase tickets for their guests will be sent to graduates by email in late April or early May 2026.

On the day of the ceremony, guests should plan to arrive early to enter the Convocation venue and take their seats. Graduands begin to enter the venue approximately 30 minutes before the ceremony begins, announcements and videos are played before the arrival of the platform party and the start of the ceremony.

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