Your time to shine
Graduation is the formal process of awarding your degree and marks your successful transition from uni student to qualified professional.
To those who've helped you through it's much more than that. For your friends and family, lecturers and tutors, graduation is their time to share your success and show how proud they are of all that you've achieved.
Find your graduation date and time - September 2019
Select your program on the drop down menu below to find out when your ceremony is.
2019 Graduation dates
Sunshine Coast
Matthew Flinders Performance Centre, Stringybark Road, Buderim
- Thursday 26 - Friday 27 September 2019
Fraser Coast
Beach House Hotel, 344 Charlton Esplanade, Hervey Bay
- Thursday 3 October 2019
2020 Graduation dates
Sunshine Coast
Matthew Flinders Performance Centre, Stringybark Road, Buderim
- Monday 6 April - Thursday 9 April 2020
- Wednesday 23 - Friday 25 September 2020
Fraser Coast
Beach House Hotel, 344 Charlton Esplanade, Hervey Bay
- Thursday 23 April 2020
- Thursday 8 October 2020
Meet recent USC graduates
Emma Williams
Bachelor of Paramedic Science
Emma shares that at the start of her degree she was very nervous as a mature age student. Emma was excited and humbled to receive a University medal on her Graduation day, and proud to represent Indigenous Australians.
Angela Harrison
Executive Master of Business Administration
For Angela it was the highest honour to be able to sit on stage with all of the academics and really be counted. She was ecstatic to have graduated, she shares "no-one was ever going to do it for me, I had to do it for myself."
Jackson Dickfos
Bachelor of Business/Science (Sport Management)
Jackson is a student who gave all he had to give – and definitely made his mark at USC. Jackson shares that crossing the stage is a heart drop moment.
Graduation stories
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![EMBA graduate Errika Meades (RAN Lieutenant Commander)]()
7 Aug
Awarded EMBA graduate happy she took the plunge
USC graduate Errika Meades is a nationally-recognised Australian Naval officer and Defence contractor with 33 years of business and logistics experience on the waves and wharves between Australia and the Middle East, where she will be deployed next week for six months.
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29 Jul
Academic ace plans to use cyberspace for good
Christie Franks graduated from USC with not just an outstanding academic record, but also a passionate plan to one day use technology to help refugees and stateless people settle into new countries.
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![Graduate and author Karen Foxlee at Voices on the Coast at USC]()
18 Jul
Arts graduate finds niche as award-winning novelist
A Gympie author whose award-winning novels for children and young adults have been published in Australia, America and Britain since she graduated from USC in 2006 is this week inspiring the next generation of readers and writers on the campus that changed her life.
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![Honours in Civil Engineering graduate Georgia Kelly at Hall Contracting site]()
8 Jul
Georgia builds engineering career on the Coast
At 22, Georgia Kelly has a USC Honours degree in Civil Engineering and a plum role working on a new 40-hectare island precinct on the Sunshine Coast.
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Emma Williams
Bachelor of Paramedic Science
Emma shares that at the start of her degree she was very nervous as a mature age student. Emma was excited and humbled to receive a University medal on her Graduation day, and proud to represent Indigenous Australians.
Angela Harrison
Executive Master of Business Administration
For Angela it was the highest honour to be able to sit on stage with all of the academics and really be counted. She was ecstatic to have graduated, she shares "no-one was ever going to do it for me, I had to do it for myself."
Jackson Dickfos
Bachelor of Business/Science (Sport Management)
Jackson is a student who gave all he had to give – and definitely made his mark at USC. Jackson shares that crossing the stage is a heart drop moment.
Graduation stories
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7 Aug
![EMBA graduate Errika Meades (RAN Lieutenant Commander)]()
Awarded EMBA graduate happy she took the plunge
USC graduate Errika Meades is a nationally-recognised Australian Naval officer and Defence contractor with 33 years of business and logistics experience on the waves and wharves between Australia and the Middle East, where she will be deployed next week for six months.
-
29 Jul
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Academic ace plans to use cyberspace for good
Christie Franks graduated from USC with not just an outstanding academic record, but also a passionate plan to one day use technology to help refugees and stateless people settle into new countries.
-
18 Jul
![Graduate and author Karen Foxlee at Voices on the Coast at USC]()
Arts graduate finds niche as award-winning novelist
A Gympie author whose award-winning novels for children and young adults have been published in Australia, America and Britain since she graduated from USC in 2006 is this week inspiring the next generation of readers and writers on the campus that changed her life.
-
8 Jul
![Honours in Civil Engineering graduate Georgia Kelly at Hall Contracting site]()
Georgia builds engineering career on the Coast
At 22, Georgia Kelly has a USC Honours degree in Civil Engineering and a plum role working on a new 40-hectare island precinct on the Sunshine Coast.
