Graduation ceremonies

Yes, it is absolutely necessary to register for your ceremony via the registration link.

Please send us an e-mail at graduation(at)unileoben.ac.at

• Bachelor's graduation ceremony
  You need to register at the conference office (entrance Buchmüllerplatz, on the ground floor on the right) of the Erzherzog Johann Auditorium at least 30 minutes before the start of the ceremony, at which time you will also receive the place cards for yourself and your relatives. Once you have received your place cards, you will be able to take your seat from the entrance upstairs in the Erzherzog Johann Auditorium.

• Diplom-Ingenieur / Master's graduation ceremony
  You will be asked to arrive in the auditorium one hour before the start of the conference. Afterwards, you and your colleagues will go over to the conference office (entrance Buchmüllerplatz, on the ground floor on the right) where you will have to register and receive seating cards for you and your relatives. Once you have received your place cards, you will be able to take your seats upstairs in the Erzherzog Johann Auditorium from the time of admission.

• Doctoral graduation ceremony
  Depending on whether you have already graduated from Montanuniversität Leoben in the past, you will receive specific information on the time and meeting point in your invitation email. Registration at the conference office of the Erzherzog Johann Auditorium (entrance Buchmüllerplatz, on the ground floor on the right) is required at least 30 minutes before the ceremony at which time you will also receive the seating cards for you and your relatives. Once you have received your place cards, you can take your seat upstairs in the Erzherzog Johann-Auditorium from the time of admission.

The seats for the graduates will already be marked in writing. Please only use the seat that has been assigned to you. 

Bachelor’s graduation ceremony

• Entrance of the professorial staff
• Opening and welcome speech by the Rector 
• Ceremonial address
• Music
• Reading of the vows by the Dean of Studies
• Commencement of the graduates; receiving graduation documents from the Rector and study programme director 
• Words of gratitude from the graduates 
• Presentation of the university certificates to graduates of the university’s postgraduate programmes 
• Closing words
• Music – Gaudeamus Igitur
• Exit procession

Diplom-Ingenieur, Master's and Doctoral graduation ceremony

• Entrance of the professorial staff and dignitaries
• Opening and welcome speech by the Rector
• Music
• Ceremonial address
• Reading of the vows by the Dean of Studies
• Commencement of the graduates; receiving graduation documents from the Rector and study programme director
• Words of gratitude from the graduates
• Music
• Presentation of the doctoral candidates
• Reading of the vows by the Dean of Studies
• Commencement of the doctorates; receiving graduation documents from the Rector and study programme director
• Words of gratitude from the doctoral candidates
• Music
• Presentation of new professorial staff
• Closing words
• Music – Gaudeamus Igitur
• Exit procession

During the entrance and exit processions – as soon as the music Gaudeamus Igitur starts – we ask you to stand to greet the academic officials and then to bid them farewell.

During graduation, we ask you to line up together with your colleagues within your field of study and receive the graduation documents after your name has been called.

Please postpone eating and drinking until after the ceremony. Mobile phones are to be switched off without exception.

The duration of the ceremony varies between approximately one and two hours, depending on the number of graduates attending.

We would like to greet you and your relatives in festive attire. Of course, the Bergkittel and the Montan dirndl have a very special tradition here.

Each graduate is permitted to bring a maximum of 2 to 4 relatives to the ceremony, depending on the availability of places. The number of guests must be announced when registering for the ceremony.

The ceremony will take place in the Erzherzog Johann Auditorium. Before the ceremony, please register at the conference office (entrance Buchmüllerplatz, on the ground floor on the right) to receive admission tickets to the ceremony for yourself and your relatives.