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Graduation Ceremony

Quarterly an official and public graduation ceremony is taking place at the university’s auditorium and held by one of the deans of the five founding faculties of GAUSS. He/she is announcing the name as well as the thesis title of all GAUSS doctoral candidates who have successfully passed their doctoral examination in the last months and congratulates them to the completion of their doctoral studies. In case of a summa cum laude the final degree is also mentioned during the ceremony.

• The graduation ceremony takes place at 16:15 h in the auditorium at Wilhelmsplatz 1.
• Admission to the auditorium is always at 16:00 h. No need to be there too early!
• Reserved seats in the front area are available for all graduates.
• Due to the large number of graduates and limited space in the auditorium, we ask that you bring only your closest relatives to the auditorium.
• Please note that you won’t receive your official doctoral certificate but only a provisional one.
• With the admission to the doctoral examination you will be notified to which graduation ceremony you are registered.

If you are unable to attend the ceremony, please report this to Ms. Rebecca Willhardt at the GAUSS Examination Office (phone: 39-21706; email: office@gauss.uni-goettingen.de).

Graduation Ceremony dates in 2025: