degree ceremony
Academic completion ritual
A degree ceremony is a formal event at which academic degrees are officially conferred on graduating students.
The terms degree ceremony, graduation ceremony, and commencement are largely interchangeable, though commencement emphasizes beginning a new chapter while degree ceremony emphasizes what is being awarded: The degree ceremony lasted three hours.
- chancellorSenior administrative official
- diplomaAcademic completion document
- capCovering for top
- commencementAct of starting
- pomp and circumstanceShowy formal ceremony
commencement address · dean · gown · graduation · hood · mortarboard · valedictorian · scroll · cap and gown · accomplishment · conferral · keynote speaker · nostalgia · relief · student loans · stole · camaraderie · procession
- secret societiesFreemasons, Illuminati, secret society, secret societies, Masons
- Oxbridge academiaMA, PhD, DPhil, matriculation, finals
- degree honorsthird class, cum laude, magna cum laude, summa cum laude, distinction
degree ceremonymatriculation
Formal university admission process
enrollment · freshman orientation · admission · registration · convocation
degree ceremonyexpulsion
Forced permanent removal
dropping out · withdrawal · rustication · suspension · failure
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