GCU London Graduation Ceremonies 2025
Book tickets for GCU London class of 2025 graduations
We look forward to celebrating all your achievements with you, your loved ones, your classmates and academic staff at your ceremony.
Please ensure that you book tickets for the correct ceremony: details of which ceremony you are attending are on your invitation email. You are able to book a maximum of two guest tickets for your ceremony.
Ceremony 1: 10am
Ceremony 2: 2pm
Please note that these are the ceremony start times. You need to arrive by the times indicated on your invitation email. Late arrivals will not be permitted entry.
If you are bringing children as guests, please ensure that another adult is also in attendance as guests and graduands are seated separately in the ceremony.
Need to know
No concessions apply. Babes in arms aged two and under do not need a ticket as long as they can sit on the lap of an adult guest throughout the ceremony. Under-12s must be accompanied by an adult on our site.
For your visit
This event is held at the Royal Festival Hall Southbank Centre
The Royal Festival Hall is open six days a week.
Tuesday – Sunday, 10am – 11pm
Monday, closed.
Plan your visit
The Royal Festival Hall is home to our largest auditorium as well as The Clore Ballroom, National Poetry Library, Members’ Lounge, Festival Bar & Kitchen, Ballroom Cafe and Skylon restaurant.
Getting here
Our address is Southbank Centre, Belvedere Road, London, SE1 8XX.
The nearest tube stations to us are Waterloo and Embankment; Waterloo is also the nearest train station. And more than 20 different London bus routes pass within 500 metres of our venues. More information on getting here by rail, road or river is available on our Getting here page.
We’re cash-free
Please note that we’re unable to accept cash payments across our venues.
Access
We’re working hard to remove barriers, so that our facilities and events can be accessible to as many people as possible.
All help points, toilets, performance and exhibition spaces at the Southbank Centre are accessible to all, as are the cafes, bars and restaurants. We also have excellent public transport links with step-free access.
All information about booking wheelchair spaces, step-free access, blue badge parking, access maps and guides and other help available whilst you’re here, including details about our Access Scheme, can be found on our Access page.
Food & drink
On Level 2 of our Royal Festival Hall you can grab a slice of life by the Thames with drinks and freshly made pizza at our Festival Bar & Kitchen which opens out onto our Riverside Terrace. You can grab a coffee and a slice of freshly made cake from our Ballroom Cafe. Or alternatively enjoy destination dining in the restaurant at Skylon.
From coffee to cocktails, filling favourites to fine dining, plus some of London’s best street food – it’s all here at the Southbank Centre.