Guest ceremony tickets

Commemoration Day 2026

Tuesday 21 October 2026

10.00 - Faculty of Engineering 

13.45 - Faculty of Medicine

17.00 - Faculty of Natural Sciences and Imperial Business School 

Please be aware that ceremony times may be subject to minor adjustments following the close of registration.
 

Buy guest ceremony tickets for the Royal Albert Hall

Please use the Royal Albert Hall webpage link included in your confirmation email, received after registering your attendance in step 1 of the registration process, to buy your guest ceremony tickets. 

Graduands from the Faculty of Engineering may initially buy up to two guest ceremony tickets and two guest Faculty Reception passes. 

Graduands from the Faculty of Medicine may initially buy up to three guest ceremony tickets and three guest Faculty Reception passes 

Graduands from the Faculty of Natural Sciences and Imperial Business School may initially buy up to four guest ceremony tickets and four guest Faculty Reception passes 

All tickets and passes are subject to availability. 

If there are tickets remaining after this initial sale, we will notify all registered graduands by email of a second purchasing window, during which the remaining tickets will be sold on a first-come, first-served basis.

Guest ceremony tickets cost £24.99 each; the booking fee is included. The deadline for buying guest ceremony tickets is when registration closes, 13.00 (GMT) on Friday 21 August 2026.  

We ask graduands to use the same email address used to register for graduation so we can link your e‑tickets to your registration.

Any e-tickets we cannot link to a registered graduand will be considered to be intentionally breaking the Terms and Conditions of the event and may be cancelled.

We also ask graduands to double check the ceremony date and time at check out to make sure they have bought tickets to the correct ceremony. See above for reference.

If you require accessible seating for your guests, please book directly with the Box Office.

Please note, graduands are required to register their attendance for Commemoration Day 2026 but are not required to buy tickets for themselves. Graduands and guests sit separately in the ceremony. Please also note that guest ceremony tickets grant access to the ceremony at the Royal Albert Hall only. Faculty Reception passes are separate and can only be bought by following step 4 of registration for Commemoration Day 2026.

The Royal Albert Hall will email a confirmation email from no-reply@royalalberthall.com after guest tickets are bought, and they will send guest ceremony tickets approximately two weeks before the ceremony.

 

Additional tickets

Should any additional guest ceremony tickets be available after the registration deadline, the Graduation Events team will notify graduands ahead of a resale, via email, after registration closes. Tickets will then be sold on a first come first served basis.

It is unlikely tickets will be available on the day of graduation; therefore, should additional tickets become available, we encourage you to buy them during this additional resale period.

 

If you have any other queries or require any assistance with guest ceremony tickets, please contact the Royal Albert Hall Box Office directly. 
 

 

Accessibility on imperial-college.idloom.events site

This statement applies to content published on imperial-college.idloom.events. It does not apply to content on any external website that we may feature links to.

We want as many people as possible to be able to use this website. For example, that means you should be able to:

  • display of all content is optimised for all screen sizes
  • Skip to main content / home page links exist
  • Text resizing is possible
  • Colour contrasts meet the minimum requirement of 4.5:1
  • Video captions, transcriptions and audio descriptions are provided
  • Any content types or features that have been optimised to meet accessibility as best as possible, such as accordions, slideshow/carousels, tables and tabs.

AbilityNet has advice on making your device easier to use if you have a disability.

Parts of this website are not fully accessible. For example:

  • some buttons are not correctly identified
  • some error messages are not clearly associated with form controls
  • many older documents in PDF format are not fully accessible

What we do about known issues

We work to achieve and maintain WCAG 2.1 AA standards, but it is not always possible for all our content to be accessible. Where content is not accessible, we will state a reason, warn users and offer alternatives.

Technical information about this website’s accessibility

Imperial College London Advancement department is committed to making its website accessible in accordance with the Public Sector Bodies (Websites and Mobile Applications) (No. 2) Accessibility Regulations 2018.

This website is partially compliant with the  Web Content Accessibility Guidelines version 2.1  AA standard, due to the known issues listed below.

Non accessible content

Due to the critical functionality of the form on this site, because it has following accessibility errors, we recommend our visitors who use assistive technology to contact us directly at graduation@imperial.ac.uk with their queries regarding their attendance.

The content that is not accessible on this website is outlined below:

-Form under the Register tab: first two fields of the form are list boxes, on which the user must choose

  1. field 1 “I would like to” user must choose what they would like to do (i.e. request a refund, change registered attendance etc)
  2. field 2 “graduation ceremony registered to” user must choose which graduation ceremony they are registered to.

However, although visible text precedes these list boxes, the text is not programmatically associated with the corresponding list box. Consequently, the list boxes do not have an accessible name. Site visitors who use assistive technologies may not be able to fill in this critical information.

-Form under the Register tab: Confirm and submit button, as a focusable element this button does not have a unique id value. Assistive technologies are likely to act only on the first and ignore the others. As a consequence, both functionality and accessibility can be degraded. We tested the page using NVDA and noticed that the button is recognised by this app.

Some documents and content are  exempt from the regulations (such as live video content and PDFs or other documents published before 23 September 2018 if they’re not essential to providing our services), so we do not currently have any plans to make them accessible. But if you need to access information in one of these document types, you can contact us and ask for an alternative format.

Non-compliance with the accessibility regulations

WCAG 4.1.1 duplicate id The form under Register tab. We plan to fix this by January 2024, and we have already contacted developer to seek solution.

WCAG 4.1.2 aria input field name – first two fields of the form under “register” tab does not have an accessible name. We plan to fix this by January 2024, and we have already contacted developer to seek solution.

WCAG 4.1.1 duplicate id active – “confirm and check out” button on the form does not have a unique id. Therefore, it may be ignored by some assistive technology. We plan to fix this by January 2024, and we have already contacted developer to seek solution.

Disproportionate burden

Not applicable.

Reporting accessibility issues

If you need information on this website in a different format like accessible PDF, large print, easy read, audio recording or braille or if you find any accessibility issues not listed on this page then please contact graduation@imperial.ac.uk.

We’ll consider your request and get back to you in 7 working days.

Enforcement procedure

The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) is responsible for enforcing the Public Sector Bodies (Websites and Mobile Applications) (No. 2) Accessibility Regulations 2018 (the ‘accessibility regulations’). If you’re not happy with how we respond to your complaint,  contact the Equality Advisory and Support Service (EASS).

How we test this website

This website was last tested for accessibility compliance on 3/1/2023, and these tests have been carried out internally. We used automated testing on home and Register pages. We used Accessibility insights for Web Google extension, and Wawe, as well as manual testing using NVDA.

Last updated

This statement was prepared on 5/1/2023. It was last updated on 9/1/2023