Q3-1 When can the academic dress be borrowed? How to apply?

1.  Availability:

(1) Bachelor's and Master's academic dress: When graduation group photo is taken by the Graduate Assistance Department. (The time will be provided via missive)

(2) Ph.D. academic dress: Available from two weeks before the commencement ceremony.

2.Borrowing procedure:

(1) Fill out the form

                              i. Ph.D. students or faculty members should go to the Office of General Affairs' Property Management Division webpage/Forms/Download "application form".

                             ii. For Master's (Bachelor's) academic dress, these are provided to departments and institutes. Go to the Office of General Affairs' Property Management Division webpage/Forms/Download "Registration Form". Create a group list of student IDs for the "Registration Form".

(2)Method of Payment:

A cleaning fee should be paid for the loan of clothing (Bachelor's academic dress is $200 each, Master's academic dress is $250 each, Ph. D academic gown is $400 each). Please go to the Sun Yat-sen University Online Payment System to make payment. For online payment, select: a. Recipient unit: Property Management Division of Office of General Affairs; b. Payment type: Bachelor/Master's academic dress cleaning fee; for Payer Name state department/institute, borrower, and the number of sets.

(3)Pick-up Method:

Once payment has been made, please bring the "Application Form", "Receipt" and payment notice with bank stamp or ATM transaction to the Property Management Division to collect the academic dresses (bring your own cartons or bags).

(4)Return

The borrower representative (class representative or nominated representative) should collect and return all of the academic dressses during office hours.

3.For more information please see:

"Guidelines for Cap and Gown Rental",

"Master's (Bachelor) Academic Dress Borrowing and Return Process" and

"Doctoral Academic Dress Borrowing and Return Process".