Graduation

When a student has met all requirements for a degree, the Graduate Studies Director so informs the Graduate School. If a student wishes to graduate (that is, to participate in Commencement and/or to receive a diploma), another formality must be attended to: the student must submit a signed degree card to the Registrar. Consult the Academic Calendar for each semester's deadline for submitting degree cards, as well as for other relevant deadlines.

To graduate at the end of a term (Fall semester, Spring semester, or Summer session), you must be registered during that term for at least one credit hour, and all degree requirements must be met before a certain degree deadline for that term (this deadline is listed on the Academic Calendar). If the degree requirements are met after the deadline, but before registration for the following term, a student may graduate the following term (provided a Completion Statement has been submitted by the Department to the Graduate School before the beginning of the next semester). There is no need to register for the following term.