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Home > Students > Graduation > MA Degree

The MA Degree

Six years and one term after matriculating, a Bachelor of Arts is entitled to take his or her Master of Arts degree, either in person or in absence, provided that two years have elapsed since the BA degree was awarded. The Praelector will write to all those who become eligible each year in December and invite them to attend the Congregation in March.  Although the degree may be conferred at any Congregation, the March Congregation is traditionally the occasion when New Hall alumnae return to Cambridge for the event and a special dinner is arranged on the Saturday evening following the ceremony at the Senate House.

If you have been awarded a Master's degree from another University, please note that this does not preclude you from receiving your Cambridge MA.

MA Congregation

This year's MA was held on Saturday 24 March 2012.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        

 Programme of the Day

Ticket Collection (in the Entrance Foyer) from 2.00 pm
Ede and Ravenscroft Gown Collection (Jocelyn Bell Burnell Room) 2.00 pm
Tea for Graduands and Guests in the Walkway
Photographer will be available in the Fellows Drawing Room & Fellows Garden for individual or group photographs
MEC Merchandise will be available for sale
3.00 pm
Group Photograph in the Library Court Garden
4.00 pm
Rehearsal in the Outside Walkway (VSR if raining) 4.15 pm
Form up for procession 5.00 pm
Graduands and Guests due at the Senate House 5.40 pm
Pre-dinner drinks in the Walkway 7.30 pm
Dinner in the Dome 8.00 pm

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