Steps to graduating

Please check your Degree Name is correct via UConnect > Student Centre > Personal Details tile as this will be used on all of your official graduation documents. If you need to make an update, please complete the following steps before the notified deadline for your final semester.

Your Primary Name (as appears on your passport or birth certificate) will be used at your graduation ceremony to call you to the stage, and in the program. Your Preferred Name is typically used on your University communications.

Your personal details must be kept up to date at all times, especially your mailing address, alternate email and mobile phone number.

After Results Release in your final semester, if you're made 'eligible to graduate', you’ll receive a 'Congratulations Graduand!' email to your UMail confirming you have officially completed the requirements of your academic program.

If you haven’t received a 'Congratulations Graduand!' email, please contact your Faculty, USQ College or the Graduate Research School immediately to determine whether you've completed the requirements of your academic program.

After your Congratulations Graduand! email arrives, you’ll receive two emails to your UMail with links to your free digital Official Academic Transcript and free digital Australian Higher Education Graduation Statement (AHEGS). You may need to allow 48-72 hours for these to be available. Use the step by step My eQuals instructions. 

Official graduation documents are issued at different times for each semester.

University and Faculty Medals, with Distinction, and Honours levels are often notified at a later date. Here’s how to check if you might be eligible.

The Graduate Response is available soon after you receive the Congratulations Graduand! communication via UConnect > Student Centre > Graduations tile.

You must complete the online Graduate Response before the deadline, and register for ‘Mail my testamur’.

Please check your Mailing Address is correct via UConnect > Student Centre > Personal Details tile before the deadline.

COVID-19 has impacted the safe delivery of graduation ceremonies in 2020, so your award will be conferred by the Chancellor in absentia. This formally recognises your graduation and allows your testamurs to be issued. Your testamurs include the date of conferral of your award.

Your free digital testamur will become available in the secure My eQuals portal soon after the in absentia conferral of your award.

Your free print testamur will be sent to your Mailing Address. Please ensure this is updated via UConnect > Student Centre > Personal Details tile before the deadline in your final semester. This ensures your print testamur is posted (Australia) or couriered (overseas) to the correct Mailing Address in your Student Centre (or USQ Education Partner) once conferred.

This delivery must be signed for upon delivery to your Mailing Address. If someone is not at home at this address, you can expect to be advised that the delivery agent has called. It is important that you respond quickly to claim your print testamur according to their instructions.

While our 2020 graduation ceremonies were cancelled due to COVID-19, we'll be inviting you to attend a graduation celebration in 2021 as soon as dates and venues are confirmed. You can be sure we'll let you know once we have details to share.

This will be your opportunity to celebrate in your mortarboard and gown in front of family and friends, and take those memorable photographs.