Academic Dress/Suppliers

Graduation ceremonies are formal University occasions.
You are required to wear appropriate personal dress along with your Academic Regalia.

Suppliers

Academic dress may be hired/purchased from two companies.

Australian Federation of University Women (WA) Inc. 
or
Regalia Craft Pty Ltd. 

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Academic Degree Colours

Click here for a list of academic degree colours for this University. Adobe Acrobat Reader (free download) is required to view this list.

Description of Academic Dress

To view a description of your Academic Regalia, please click on the type of award you are receiving:

Bachelors
Certificates
Diplomates
Masters
Doctorates 

Bachelors

Gown: The gown is black, gathered onto a yoke and with wide sleeves with a vertical slit at the front.
Hood: The hood is black, of the Oxford simple shape, lined with silk of the prescribed colour and edged with white silk three centimetres wide.
Cap: No cap required.

Note:  If you have completed a pass Bachelors degree, you wear the coloured lining of your hood on your left shoulder.  If you have completed honours, you wear the colour on your right shoulder.

Certificates

Gown: The gown is black, gathered onto a yoke and with wide sleeves with a vertical slit at the front.
Stole: The stole, which is worn round the neck and down the facing of each side of the gown, is black, five centimetres wide and 180 centimetres long with 45 centimetres of cloth of the prescribed colour down each side to breast level.
Cap: No cap required.

Diplomas

Gown: The gown is black, gathered onto a yoke and with wide sleeves with a vertical slit at the front.
Stole: The stole, which is worn round the neck and down the facing of each side of the gown, is five centimetres wide and 180 centimetres long, both sides being of cloth of the prescribed colour.
Cap: No cap required.

Masters

Gown: The gown is black, gathered onto a yoke with full sleeves slit horizontally to free the arms.
Hood: The hood is black, of the Oxford simple shape and lined with silk of the prescribed colour.
Cap: The cap is a black cloth trencher cap.

Doctors of Philosophy

Gown: The gown is black, gathered onto a yoke with full sleeves slit horizontally to free the arms, but with facings of scarlet silk ten centimetres wide the full length of the front.
Hood: The hood is black, of the Oxford simple shape and lined with silk of scarlet cloth.
Cap: The cap is a black velvet trencher cap.

Doctorates other than Doctor of Philosophy and Higher Doctorates

Doctor of Architecture (Design); Doctor of Arts; Doctor of Business Administration; Doctor of Clinical Pharmacy; Doctor of Education; Doctor of Educational Psychology; Doctor of Engineering in Information and Communications Technology; Doctor of Juridical Science; Doctor of Musical Arts; Doctor of Physiotherapy; Doctor of Psychology; Doctor of Social Work

Gown: The gown is black, gathered onto a yoke with full sleeves slit horizontally to free the arms, but with silk facings of the prescribed colour ten centimetres wide the full length of the front.
Hood: The hood is black, of the Oxford simple shape and lined with silk of the prescribed colour.
Cap: The cap is a black velvet trencher cap.

Higher Doctorates

Doctor of Architecture; Doctor of Commerce; Doctor of Dental Science; Doctor of Economics; Doctor of Engineering; Doctor of Laws; Doctor of Letters; Doctor of Medicine; Doctor of Music; Doctor of Science; Doctor of Science in Agriculture; Doctor of Surgery

Gown: The gown is scarlet, gathered onto a yoke at the sleeves and the back, with facings of the prescribed colour ten centimetres wide the full length of the front, and fully lined sleeves of silk of the presdcribed colour.
Hood: The hood is scarlet, of the Oxford simple shape and lined with silk of the prescribed colour.
Cap: The cap is a black velvet trencher cap.