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The Ceremonial Conferment of Degrees is the most traditional and festive celebration of all academic events. Masters and doctors graduated since the last conferment, as well as honorary doctors, jubilee doctors and jubilee masters will be conferred at the ceremonial conferment of 2026. We encourage all promovendi to gather your fellow students and come celebrate your achievements together in the most prestigious celebration of the academic community!

Alumni of the School of Business are by tradition entitled to participate in one conferment only, the first after their graduation. 

At the next conferment ceremony in 2026, master’s graduates who completed their degrees between April 1, 2022 and March 30, 2026, and doctoral graduates who completed their degrees between May 1, 2022 and March 30, 2026, will be conferred. 

An invitation will be sent during 2025 to all master’s and doctoral graduates who are invited to participate in the 2026 ceremony. In addition to the above-mentioned promovendi, the jubilee masters and jubilee doctors from the 1976 conferment ceremony and the newly appointed honorary doctors are invited to the 2026 conferment.

If you are still a student and would like to participate in the Ceremonial Conferment next year, you should complete your master’s or doctoral studies and request your graduation by March 30, 2026. For doctoral students, this includes defending their thesis by the specified date. Master's and doctoral students must additionally follow other instructions from the academic office related to the graduation date. More information can be found from the Student Guide.

Communication 

Communication will begin in September 2025. We will collect the contact information of the promovendi from Aalto University’s Alumni and Partnership Registry (CRM).

The conferment also celebrates jubilee masters and jubilee doctors. We invite all masters and doctors conferred in 1976 to join the celebration. A message will be sent to every jubilee whose name appears in the 1976 promovendi and whose contact information we can find.

If you should be receiving conferment communication but have not received it during autumn 2025, please feel free to contact us at: conferment-biz@aalto.fi

Price and registration

Conferment is a three-day event series that includes multiple sub-events and meals. The participation fee for the event barely covers the participants' catering costs; the School of Business and the School of Business Support Foundation provide the rest of the content for the event. It is not possible to purchase tickets for one or two days of the conferment as promovendi are expected to participate in all three days of the conferment. 

Conferment is a paid event with a limited number of tickets. One can only participate in the conferment once, so it is advisable to register as soon as the registration opens. If desired, the promovendi can also register a companion. The participation fee will be announced in the autumn of 2025.

Cancellation policy

• The registrations are binding and non-refundable, except for the special cases mentioned below.
• If the organizers cancel the event due to expelling reasons, all registration fees will be refunded in full.
• If it turns out that you are unable to graduate before the last graduation date and have already registered for the conferment, please inform us immediately. If we get the information by the graduation date, we can return the registration fee in full.