Bachelor's Degree Afternoon Ceremony
Friday, May 15, 2026 at 4 p.m.
Undergraduate Ceremony for:
- College of Humanities and Social Sciences
2 p.m. Parking lots and entrances open for graduates and guests.
- Please follow the directions from Xfinity Center Parking staff on general parking.
- Guests and Graduates can park in the same lots.
- ADA parking (with disability placard)
- There is a specific Accessible lot. Please refer to the Xfinity Center Parking Map.
- ADA parking (without disability placard)
- Please alert Xfinity Center Parking staff and they will allow you to drop off closer to the front entrance.
2:30 p.m. Venue gates open Graduates report to assembly area.
- All guests and graduates will enter via the main entry gate.
- Guests will stay to the left.
- Graduates will stay to the right.
- There will be a specific ADA line for Guests.
- View a venue seating map here.
3 p.m. All Graduates must be checked in at assembly area for line-up.*
3:30 p.m. Graduates begin processing
3:50 p.m. Faculty procession begins
3:55 p.m. Platform Party procession to stage begins
4 p.m. Ceremony begins
6:30 p.m. Approximate ceremony end time
*Check-in begins 90 minutes prior to ceremony time. All graduates must be checked in one hour prior to their ceremony start time. If a graduate is late for check-in, they will not walk with their major and may be placed at the end of the processional.