Any other options to graduate when I can’t attend mine?

Hello! Odd question (tho genuine) but I can’t attend my uni graduation in October (Uni of Highlands and Islands) due to personal reasons which makes me unable to fly back to the UK.

However, I heard from some people where they know some who graduated but with another university’s graduation ceremony. Is that possible to graduate using another unis graduation ceremony to have it earlier? Or is there any other options. Just exhausting my options if not then I’ll just pop a graduation robe and go to a photo studio in my home country 🤣!

Usually unis have multiple graduation dates - others normally for postgrads though. Check with them if you can go to one of those ceremonies if available?

I can't imagine that one university would agree to confer a different university's degree on you!

You could ask your university if you can defer your graduation to the next set of ceremonies. I know that the university nearest me has two sets of ceremonies a year, normally in July and February (with the February set being mainly postgraduates).

In terms of "graduation robes", bear in mind that academic dress varies between universities and (within the same university) between degrees. It is possible to hire the appropriate gown/hood/mortar board outside of the graduation process; I did this because my parents wanted to get a photo taken with me and my brother in our respective academic dress even though he graduated (I think) a year after me. [I didn't attend his ceremony in academic dress; we got the photos done a couple of days later.]