Purchase Apparel for the Ceremony
Purchase your cap, gown, tassel & hood, order announcements and more
Bachelor's students order through Jostens over the phone at (800) 854-7464. Deadline is December 1. Phone orders will incur a shipping fee.
Attention Graduate Students
Due to gown and hood customization, master's, specialist, law, and doctoral students had to order by October 21. If you missed this deadline, you still have a chance to buy apparel the morning of commencement on December 12.
Purchase your cap, gown, tassel & hood, order announcements and more
Bachelor's students order through Jostens over the phone at (800) 854-7464. Deadline is December 1. Phone orders will incur a shipping fee.
Attention Graduate Students
Due to gown and hood customization, master's, specialist, law, and doctoral students had to order by October 21. If you missed this deadline, you still have a chance to buy apparel the morning of commencement on December 12.
Graduation Apparel
Academic AttireGowns are black, with the shape of the sleeve indicating the level of degree of the wearer. They are untrimmed, except for the doctoral gown, which has black velvet panels down the front and black velvet chevrons across the sleeves.
Hoods are lined with the color(s) of the college or university conferring the degree. The trim on the hood is the color of the discipline to which the major field of study belongs. Note: In the case of the Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) degree, royal blue is used, representing a mastery of the discipline of the learning and scholarship, regardless of the discipline.
Honor cords are given to degree candidates who qualify for academic honors , free of charge. Honor cords worn at commencement represent tentative honors based upon grade point average at the end of the previous semester. Honors requirements vary by college. Graduate degree candidates do not receive honors.
The tassel for the bachelor's degree is the color of the discipline to which the major field of study belongs. Masters' and specialists' tassels are black. Doctoral tassels are old gold.