Students whose degrees have been conferred or will be conferred during the months below are eligible to participate in the Commencement Ceremony.

• Doctoral – August 2024, November 2024, December 2024, February 2025 and May 2025
• Master’s –  November 2024, December 2024, February 2025, May 2025 and August 2025**
• Undergraduate –  November 2024, December 2024, February 2025, May 20254 and August 2025**

** Undergraduate and Master’s students that are within 6 credits of completing their degree requirements are eligible to participate in the Commencement Ceremony. However, they are required to be pre-registered for the remaining coursework for degree completion in the Summer terms.

Exceptions to the credit requirement will be permitted for undergraduate students in the School of Education who need to complete student teaching in the Fall term (December) provided they have pre-registered for the remaining coursework. Non-education students that will complete their program requirements in the Fall are not eligible to participate in the 2025 ceremony.

Please note Doctoral students are eligible to order regalia and participate in the Commencement Ceremony, if they have successfully completed their program requirements and defended their dissertation.

POLICIES ON ALCOHOL AND DISRUPTIVE BEHAVIOR 

The Saint Peter’s University security staff and personnel will be responsible for crowd control. Any student or guest exhibiting disruptive behavior will be asked to leave. In cases of egregious disruption, the student will be removed from the ceremony, and may face the withholding of her/his diploma until a judicial hearing is conducted on campus. Guests exhibiting egregiously disruptive behavior will be subject to arrest and criminal prosecution. It is a violation of University policy for anyone to possess or consume any alcoholic beverage during any part of the Commencement ceremony.