Commencement (Graduation)

• The graduation application is in myCTState on the student card. 
• You should submit your graduation application once you register for the final requirements of your degree or certificate program. You may only submit applications for degree or certificate programs on your college record.
• You must submit a separate application for each credential (for example, one degree and one certificate require two applications).
• Any course substitutions should be completed prior to completing the graduation application (see your advisor).
• If you met a degree requirement outside of CT State, provide your official transcripts for evaluation as soon as possible and notify your degree auditor.

Note: You will not be able to fill out more than one application per program through myCTState. For example, if you applied for May graduation and then withdrew from a needed class, the degree auditor (once notified) would move the application from May to August (if it was your intention to take a summer class for completion). 

• December Conferrals: December 15
• May Conferrals: April 1
• August Conferrals: August 15*

*Summer applicants who submit their graduation application after April 1 will still be eligible to participate in the Commencement ceremony but will not have their names listed in the Commencement program.

Note: If a student takes one or more winter classes, they would be conferred in May. If a student takes one or more summer classes, they would be conferred in August.

Note: Summer completers who wish to attend the ceremony need to be within two classes (or eight credits) of degree completion, register for those classes and make payment arrangements to attend the ceremony in May. You are not considered to have graduated until those final requirements are complete (in other words, participating in the ceremony does not mean you have graduated).

All email correspondence from your Degree Auditor will be sent to your student email account (please check regularly). Audits will be done in the order they are received. Any questions regarding your audit, please email CTState-DegreeWorks@ct.edu or your Degree Auditor. Any questions regarding the ceremony, please look for contact information on your campus commencement section.