Academic dress of the University of Tasmania

The ordinance prescribes the Oxford style for the gowns and hoods for both undergraduate and postgraduate academic dress.

[1] Dignitaries, officers, staff, graduates and students wear academic dress at public ceremonies of the University of Tasmania.

For doctors, other than doctors of philosophy and professional doctorates, and for masters of surgery, a festal gown of scarlet cloth, faced on the full length of the lapels to a width of 10 centimetres with coloured silk, with open pointed sleeves fully lined with coloured silk and turned back above the elbow should be worn for academic dress.

Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islanders are entitled to wear an additional scarf as part of their academic dress, styled after the Australian Aboriginal flag and the Torres Strait Islander flag.

The introduction of the scarves into the academic dress was intended by the University to "recognise the traditional owners of the land".