Academic dress of the University of Nottingham

In addition to the dress listed below, further colour and splendour is brought to occasions where formal academic dress is worn by the gold trimmed gowns and hats of the senior University officers (the Chancellor, the Pro-Chancellors, the Vice-Chancellor and the Pro-Vice-Chancellors.)

Gowns

At the University of Nottingham the diploma, undergraduate and masters gowns are made from black fabric. The gowns of Doctors of Philosophy and other first doctorates are claret, while higher doctoral gowns are made from scarlet cloth.

Hoods

Undergraduate diploma graduates wear a hood lined with the University blue silk and postgraduate diploma graduates wear a hood lined with Sherwood green silk. For information regarding hood classifications, see here

All degree graduates wear a hood. All degree hoods are partially or fully lined with light blue silk which is the University colour. The hood is also trimmed with a coloured ribbon which indicates the faculty and the level of degree being awarded.

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