Following Your Graduation

After graduating from your doctoral studies, you are presented with multiple career paths you can follow
Many doctors either :

  • go on to become academics or a teacher-researchers
  • or move more toward private, corporate or socio-economic work environments

News: 2026 Doctors' Ceremony

To mark the end of their studies, each doctoral candidate, dressed in academic robes and a doctoral cap, will be presented with an academic scarf and a specimen doctoral diploma by their doctoral school director.

The class of 2025 will be sponsored by:

Relive the ceremony on video:

 

Inaugural Doctors' Graduation Ceremony

The sixth edition of the Doctorate Ceremony for 2025 graduates will take place on Monday 9 March 2026 at 5pm in Lille at the Nouveau Siècle (reception from 3.30pm).
Registration is compulsory and must be completed before 31 January 2026: https://www.univ-lille.fr/ceremonie-des-docteurs-2026

Access to the venue for each participant (doctor, accompanying person, other guest) will be granted upon presentation of a personalised QR code, which will be sent by email to the following address: support@weezevent.com. 
Please check your email carefully! Doctors will receive the QR codes for their guests directly and will be responsible for forwarding them (please note: a separate email will be sent for each guest).

The 6th graduating class will be sponsored by:

Lille Nouveau Siècle:
17 Place Mendes France, Lille

If you have any questions, please contact us at:
ceremonie-docteurs(a)univ-lille.fr

For more information, visit our dedicated website (practical information will be updated regularly on this page, so please check back often):
https://doctorat.univ-lille.fr/ceremonie-des-docteurs-2026