Eligibility

Students who earn a degree in Autumn through Summer of the academic year are eligible to participate in the Commencement ceremony.

Bachelor's Candidates

Undergraduate students must apply for graduation with their Academic Advisor. Once their application has been completed and received by the Registrar’s Office, undergraduate students are then eligible to complete the Commencement registration form. 

Master’s Candidates

Graduate students are eligible to apply for graduation in the quarter they are planning to graduate.  For more information and to apply please visit the UW Graduate School webpage. Graduate students must contact their graduate program advisor to have their name listed in the Commencement program. All graduate students must complete the Commencement registration form so that you can order apparel even if only participating in your department's hooding ceremony.

Names Listed in the Program

The Commencement program will list the names of graduates from Autumn through Summer. Graduate students must contact their graduate advisor in order to have their names listed.

Don’t want your name listed in the program? You can submit to a request via our Commencement Listing & Name Form before the above deadlines.

Students will also receive information via their UW.edu email with instructions about using the web form to either

1. Select a “Commencement Program Name,” if desired, or
2. Request not to have your name printed in the Commencement Program.

Your record name on file with the University will be used in the program, unless you request not to be listed or provide a “Commencement Program Name” using the web form linked in the email.

Certain restrictions to Commencement Program Names apply:

• A Commencement Program Name may not be used with an intent to impersonate someone else, to deceive, defraud, or misrepresent.
• Hate speech and inappropriate or offensive language are forbidden.