Ceremonial Conferment of Doctoral Degrees 2025

Time

16.5.2025 at 11.00 - 16.00
Ceremonial Conferment of Doctoral Degrees of all faculties of the University of Turku will be celebrated on Friday, May 16, 2025, at Logomo. During the ceremony, 190 doctors and 10 honorary doctors will be conferred. After the ceremony, an academic procession will march from the center of Turku to the Cathedral for a promotion service.

The Ceremonial Conferment of Doctoral Degrees is the most important of the academic celebrations. The tradition at the University of Turku is based on nearly 800 years of academic celebration tradition. The first Ceremonial Conferment of the Royal Academy of Turku was celebrated in 1643, and the first official ceremony in Turku took place in 1781.