Commencement 2024
Celebrate the end of one chapter and the beginning of another.
Ceremonies
Graduate: Friday, May 16, 2025 — Graduate details
Undergraduate: two ceremonies Saturday, May 17, 2024 — Undergraduate details
Regalia
All graduating students wear regalia.
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. Sign up form to come soon; deadline to complete it will be May 8, 2025.