Commencement

The ceremony will take place at 2pm on Saturday, December 14 at the Convocation Center on 95 Richland Avenue, Athens Ohio 45701

Doors open to guests at 12:30pm.

Approximately 2.5 hours. 

Go to www.ohio.edu/commencement - the live video will be embedded on the front page once the event begins. 

OHIO Distinguished Professor Dr. Sarah Wyatt to speak at Fall Commencement

2024 Fall Commencement Transportation and Parking Information

Doctoral Students

Masters Students

Undergraduate Students

-All students must return to their seats after conferral, to be respectful to other graduates and families. The event will adjourn at the very end of the ceremony.

No reservations are needed for any seating. All seating, including limited mobility sections, is first come, first serve.

No, patrons must bring their own personal accessibility equipment.

You can order those through Ohio University Printing Services. 

Grad Images will be contacting your OHIO email or permanent address with proofs of your commencement photo available for purchase. Additionally, you can visit their website. 

Lost and found is located at Will Call. After the event, all items will be taken to Baker University Center Guest Services (740-593-4000).

• Faculty must be wearing regalia. The deadline to order was 11/2/24!
• Faculty may enter the lower lobby entrance (the street entrance below the main entrance directly off Richland Avenue near the parking garage under the Convocation Center.
• There is no line up within the Convocation Center. Instead, Faculty are to find their seats in the first few rows of reserved seating directly. Faculty must be in their seats by 1:40pm. Faculty will stay seated the entire time and not go to the stage (unless you are a pre-approved Mentor for a Doctoral Candidate).

Bag checks will be performed. Prohibited items are as follows:

• Aerosol cans
• Alcohol
• Animals
• Bookbags/backpacks
• Commercial video/audio equipment and tripods
• Fireworks
• Food/beverages (factory sealed water bottles and children's snacks/drinks will be permitted)
• Hoverboards/skateboards
• Ice chests/coolers
• Laser pointers
• Noisemakers/airhorns
• Weapons (including pepper spray and knives/blades of any length)
• Signs, flags, banners, and balloons
• Any item(s) deemed hazardous by event personnel

*Use of tobacco products within and around the facility is prohibited due University Policy 44.113: Smoke and Tobacco Free Campus.

The deadline to order caps and gowns online has passed. We will have a sales site in Baker University Center room 366 on 12/14 from 10am - 2pm where students can purchase all items needed. 

There is no limit for guests. The event is not ticketed. 

For Doctoral and Masters Students

Check-in will begin at 12:30pm in Grosvenor Hall, 16 West Green Drive, in the Graduate College

Students must be in their seats by 1:45pm.

For Undergraduate Students

Check-in will begin at 12:30pm in the Convocation Center

Students must be in their seats by 1:45pm.

For Undergraduate students: To the right prior to conferral of degree. Upon conferral, tassel is moved to the front left.

For Doctoral and Masters students: Tassels start and stay on the front left.

There is no place to store personal items such as coats, backpacks, or bags. Anything you bring, you will need to carry through the ceremony. Backpacks, coats, and large purses will not be permitted onto the commencement floor. Therefore, please arrange with family or friends to hold onto items you do not want to carry onto the Convocation Center floor. 

For the safety and security of those attending commencement, all bags and packages entering the Convocation Center before and during the ceremony are subject to inspection. This includes, but is not limited to, purses, backpacks, camera bags, and diaper bags.