Friday, May 10, 2024
Begins at 10:00 a.m.
State Farm Center
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The Ceremony
This ceremony offers doctoral degree recipients, along with faculty mentors, a special opportunity to celebrate their achievement in a university-wide setting. The ceremony will include comments from campus leaders, and deans from each college and school will be present to congratulate students on their achievements. The focus of the ceremony is the formal "hooding" of doctoral degree recipients, often by faculty advisers.
Eligibility
Doctoral students (PhD, EdD, JSD, DMA and AudD) are eligible to participate in the Doctoral Hooding Ceremony if they will finish the degree requirements for May 2024 or if they graduated in a previous term but have not yet participated in a hooding ceremony. Students graduating this semester must have deposited their dissertation with the Graduate College Thesis Office by the May 2024 doctoral deposit deadline in order to participate.
Registration
Please contact gradsuccess@illinois.edu with any questions about your registration.
Regalia
Academic attire is required for participation in the ceremony. Please see the commencement website for details on academic regalia.
Faculty Hooders
Faculty who are designated as a hooder do not need to independently register for the ceremony. Please reach out to gradsuccess@illinois.edu with any questions.
Guest Tickets
Guests will need tickets to enter the ceremony. Each graduate is automatically allotted ten tickets. Please pick up tickets at the Graduate College (507 E. Green St) Monday, May 6, through Thursday, May 9, 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. and 1:00 p.m - 4:30 p.m.
If you need additional tickets, please speak with Graduate College staff when picking up your tickets. If you are not able to pick up your tickets yourself, you can send someone else to pick up the tickets for you.
Accommodations
If you, your hooder, or any of your guests require accessibility accommodations during the ceremony, please specify those needs when registering. Early requests are strongly encouraged to allow sufficient time to meet your needs.
Parking
Free parking is available in the lots directly surrounding the State Farm Center on the day of the ceremony.
Graduating this semester?
- Find everything you need to know and important deadlines for graduation on our Countdown to Completion page.
- Check out the complete list of May 2024 convocation ceremonies happening across campus.
- Make sure to reach out to the appropriate contacts as eligibility requirements to participate and registration processes are different for each ceremony.