A group of graduates, now living in the big smoke, will look back on their years at the University of Otago as "the time of our lives".
Nearly 1200 people graduated from the university in two ceremonies on Saturday afternoon.
Among them were friends Emily Hill, Kate Harris, Charlotte Johnstone and Rachel Alexander, who had finished five years of study together.
Miss Hill, of Dunedin, graduated with a double bachelor’s degree in law and arts, majoring in communications and minoring in marketing, and said it was amazing to graduate together.
"It was such a beautiful day and such a nice weekend.
"A lot of us were in halls all together in our first year and had flatted together - [we] went through the whole five years as a group."
"Otago was just the time of our lives really and we’re all pretty sad we had to leave.
"The whole uni was just incredible," Miss Hill said.
The four now lived in Auckland - she worked in public relations and the other three in law firms, she said.
"I kind of thought I might go into law," she said.
"But my passions were more in the other degree that I took so I just followed that with my career.
"You get to kind of deal with really cool clients."
It was great to be in Dunedin together "one last time" and she was thrilled the weather had held.
