Graduation Procedures

Undergraduate Students

See the Registrar’s Office for full Graduation Preparation Details and Deadlines.

Graduate Students

The deadline for completing the Petition to Graduate form has passed. Please email Christina Wouters with any questions.

Bienen School of Music Convocation

Sunday,  June 12, 2022 at 1:00 p.m.

Pick-Staiger Concert Hall
50 Arts Circle Drive
Evanston, IL 60208

All graduates should arrive in regalia no later than 12:15 p.m.

Convocation Tickets

Graduates are responsible for ordering tickets for their guests. Each graduating student is allotted 10 guest tickets for the Bienen School’s Convocation ceremony. Note that these tickets are separate from the 10 tickets students are allotted for the University-wide Commencement ceremony.

To log into the Bienen School’s Convocation ticket portal, use the link below along with your assigned promotion code: BIE22+student 7-digit ID (example: BIE22+1234567)

Bienen School Convocation Ticket Portal

Important Notes about Tickets:

• Ticket reservations must be placed by Friday, May 20. 
• Graduates will only be able to enter the portal ONCE with their promotion code. Only Northwestern University students may reserve tickets for the Commencement and Convocation ceremonies.
• All tickets for Commencement and Convocation are electronic and are general admission.
• Tickets will be delivered on or about June 1 and will include directions for electronically transferring those tickets to your guests.

For log-in issues or questions about your ticketing account, please contact the Athletics Department at cat-tix@northwestern.edu or 847-491-2287 or 888-GO-PURPLE (467-8775).

Bachelor’s degree regalia include a souvenir stole. Advanced degree candidates wear hoods. The lining of the Northwestern hood is purple and gold, and the color of the velvet border of the hood indicates the academic area. The Bienen School tassels and hoods are pink. PhD tassels are gold metallic and the hood is dark blue.

Graduates should place regalia orders by 11:59 p.m. on Wednesday, May 4. Visit the Regalia webpage to order your cap and gown, or for additional details about your regalia.

Doctoral Candidates

DMA and PhD candidates, please invite your committee chairperson to participate in the convocation ceremony. If for some reason your chairperson cannot attend, you may invite an appropriate faculty substitute. At the designated time, you will proceed across the stage carrying your hood over your arm. You will then hand your hood to your committee chairperson, who will place the hood over your head.

Parking

Guests may park in the Lakeside Parking Structure (1 Arts Circle Dr). This lot is adjacent to the south end of the Ryan Center for Musical Arts. The South Campus Parking Garage (1847 Campus Dr), attached to the Segal Visitor Center, will also be open for parking on the day of the ceremony.

Guests with impaired mobility may use Arts Circle Drive for drop off in front of Pick-Staiger Concert Hall.

Northwestern University's 164th Annual Commencement

Monday, June 13, 2022 at 9:00 a.m.

Ryan Field
1501 Central Street
Evanston, IL 60208

Tickets are required for this university-wide ceremony. Graduates are required to wear regalia for both the commencement and convocation programs.

More information about commencement