Graduation tickets
Book guest tickets by 16 December 5pm
If you’d like to buy guest tickets for your ceremony, you can purchase up to two tickets at £19 each when you confirm your place on the online booking sytem.
All students who confirm their place by the booking deadline of 16 December at 5pm can buy up to two guest tickets; after this date, the two guest tickets is no longer guaranteed. Further information on additional tickets is detailed below.
Guest ticket despatch
Guest tickets are posted to UK addresses around one to two weeks before the ceremonies. Guest tickets for international addresses are not posted and are to be collected on the day at Registration at Curve Theatre.
Additional guest tickets
Additional guest tickets, if they are available, will go on sale on the university’s online store on 20 December on a first come, first sold basis, staggered by ceremony date. You can access the store as a guest or you can set up an account in order to complete the additional tickets purchase.
Tickets will be released as follows:
Ticket release times
| Date of ceremony | Time of ceremony | Tickets sales open on 20 December 2024 | Ticket sales close on 06 January 2025 |
|---|
| 11 February 2025 |
10am |
9am |
5pm |
| 11 February 2025 |
2pm |
9.15am |
5.15pm |
| 12 February 2025 |
10am |
9.30am |
5.30pm |
| 12 February 2025 |
2pm |
9.45am |
5.45pm |
| 12 February 2025 |
5pm |
10am |
6pm |
| 13 February 2025 |
10am |
10.15am |
6.15pm |
| 13 February 2025 |
2pm |
10.30am |
6.30pm |
| 13 February 2025 |
5pm |
10.45am |
6.45pm |
| 14 February 2025 |
10am |
11am |
7pm |
| 14 February 2025 |
2pm |
11.15am |
7.15pm |
It’s important to note that, as we cannot guarantee that extra tickets – or the amount of extra tickets needed – will be available for your ceremony, students should not rely on them. There are occasions where there are very few, or no spare tickets available.
Additional tickets bought on or after 20 December and before 6 January will be seated together with the initial tickets bought.
Additional ticket sales will close on 6 January 2025.
Please note we do not issue reminder communications about additional ticket availability.
Surplus tickets
Any tickets remaining after 6 January can be bought directly from Curve Box Office from 12 noon on 21 January. These tickets will not be seated with any previously bought tickets so please bear this in mind when including guests who need to be accompanied. Curve details are:
www.curveonline.co.uk
Telephone +44 (0) 116 242 3595
Please note that we do not issue reminder communications about surplus ticket availability.
Extra guest tickets on the day of your ceremony
On the day of your ceremony, any remaining guest tickets available will be for sale on a first come, first served basis, directly from Curve Theatre Box Office. There is no guarantee that spare tickets will be available however.
Guests without tickets
Guests without tickets can watch the live streaming of the ceremony either online or in the screening room at Curve Theatre, Rehearsal Room 2 on the Mezzanine Floor on a first come, first seat basis. You don’t need to book a place for this.
All ceremonies are live streamed on the university’s website and on the DMU YouTube channel.
Tickets for children
Graduation is a time of celebration of your achievements for you and your guests. Children are welcome to attend the ceremonies. However, as ceremonies are formal events with speeches, lengthy conferment of students, moments of darkness and theatrical lighting, it is not a recommended event for children.
If you wish to bring children as guests, they will need a ticket to enter the graduation auditorium, priced at £19 each, this includes toddlers and babies sitting on laps.
Babies 12 months and under do need a ticket, please contact academicawards@dmu.ac.uk or +44(0) 116257 7307. (9am -4pm)
Children cannot be left unattended and must be accompanied by a responsible adult at all times. The safety and wellbeing of children is the responsibility of accompanying adults. In addition, children cannot be cared for by DMU or Curve members of staff.
Please note prams and buggies aren’t permitted in the graduation auditorium and there is a buggy park at Curve for student and guest use. Property left at the buggy park is left at the owner’s risk.
Don’t make any travel or accommodation arrangements for you or your guests until all tickets are officially confirmed via email.