Ceremonies

Graduate: Friday, May 16, 2025 — Graduate details

Undergraduate: two ceremonies Saturday, May 17, 2025 — Undergraduate details

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Regalia

All graduating students wear regalia.

Undergraduate  Graduate

Commencement guests

  • No tickets are needed.
  • Guest parking: For all Commencement activities, enter campus at the one-way northernmost entrance on East Avenue (next to Irondequoit Country Club driveway, near Golisano Training Center), marked with signs.
    • Staff will direct you to appropriate parking. Ample accessible parking is available first-come, first-served for those with an issued accessible parking permit.
    • A complimentary shuttle will be available between the parking lots and Golisano Training Center.
  • Accessible seating is provided with folding chairs. Guests have the flexibility to select their preferred seating location, and our ushers are available to assist in removing a folding chair to accommodate wheelchair access.
  • Please read the frequently asked questions, including about security screening and what you can/can't bring:

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Legacy Diplomas

To honor the tradition of a Nazareth education, Naz alumni are invited to ceremoniously hand their graduating student their diploma. This opportunity is open to one legacy family member of an undergraduate or graduate student graduating in this spring's commencement ceremonies. By May 8, 2025:

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Chris Hilderbrant smiles, seating in his wheelchair wearing gloves, by a laptop computer

Commencement speaker

Chris Hilderbrant '99, an advocate for people with disabilities for more than two decades, is Nazareth University's 2025 Commencement speaker.

Hilderbrant has had an impact as a disability rights activist, policy strategist, non-profit executive, and wheelchair rugby player.

2024 Recap

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