Commencement

Pre-Event Instructions for Graduates

• Purchase your Masters or Doctoral regalia via the UCSB Campus Store.

• No tickets required for guests. 
• Electronic Stage Pass will be emailed to you in early June (to your UCSB email address.) This is the pass that you need to show in order to line up and have your name read across the stage
• Please watch out for updates on parking during Commencement.

Check-In at the Events Center (a.k.a. Thunderdome)

1. Plan to arrive at the Events Center wearing your regalia at 11:30 am. This will allow time to check in, use the restrooms, find faculty, and line up.
2. Make sure your phone is charged, as you will need it to scan your electronic stage pass.
3. Everyone is to wear their cap and gown; the tassel can go on either side for graduate students. Master's students will wear their hoods. Doctoral students will carry their hoods and be hooded on stage.
4. Listen for instructions to line up.
5. The procession will leave the Events Center promptly at 12:40 p.m. Don’t leave any of your personal belongings in the Events Center.
6. Only students and their professors will be allowed in the Events Center. Please ask your family and friends to go directly to the seating area on the Commencement Green and to take with them your personal possessions. The Events Center will be locked after the procession leaves at 12:40 p.m. Do not leave any personal belongings there.
7. Doctoral students: Arrange in advance when and where you will meet up with your faculty hooder. Most faculty hooders will line up with you in the Events Center and sit next to you on the Commencement Green. Some hooders will be part of the Chancellor’s Platform Party (meaning they will sit on the stage, not with you on the Commencement Green), so they will meet you near the photography station next to the stage when it is time for you to walk across the stage.