In addition to the campuswide Commencements in May and December, many departments and student groups hold smaller, more personal graduations in the spring semester only. Each group handles its event independently, and graduates can attend the campuswide Commencement, department graduation, or both. Ask your loved ones about their plans.
Aerospace Studies
African American Studies Black Graduation
American Indian Graduate Program
American Studies (UGIS)
Ancient Greek & Roman Studies
Ancient History & Mediterranean Archaeology
Anthropology
For details see anthropology.berkeley.edu/news-events/commencement-2025.
Architecture (Reception)
The Department of Architecture graduation will be part of the College of Environmental Design Commencement Ceremony this year.
Asian Studies
Buddhist Studies (GBS)
Business, MBA for Executives
Business, Ph.D.
Business, Undergraduate
Cal Athletics Student-Athlete Graduation Celebration
Celtic Studies
Reception to follow in Ishi Court.
More info on the department website.
Chemical Engineering (College of Chemistry)
Chemistry
Chicanx Latinx Graduation Celebration
TIMES: 2 p.m. and 7 p.m.
Cognitive Science (ISSP)
Comparative Literature
Reception to follow in Ishi Courtyard.
Computer Science, B.A.
The Department of Computer Science, B.A. graduation will be part of the College of Computing, Data Science, and Society Commencement Ceremony this year.
Computing, Data Science, and Society, College of
In order to accommodate requests for additional guest tickets, CDSS will be holding two commencement ceremonies.
TIMES: 2 p.m. and 7 p.m.
Data Science, B.A.
The Department of Data Science, B.A. graduation will be part of the College of Computing, Data Science, and Society Commencement Ceremony this year.
Disabled Students’ Program
Earth and Planetary Science
East Asian Languages & Culture (EALC)
Economics
Please see our website econ.berkeley.edu/commencement and join our edstem for updates edstem.org/us/join/JSg8Dw.
Education, Berkeley School of
Energy and Resources Group
Engineering – Doctoral
Engineering – Graduate
Engineering – Undergraduate
English
Environmental Design, College of
Ethnic Studies
Film & Media
Tickets are $10 each. Limit of 10 per student. Children and babies need tickets. Graduating students do not need to purchase tickets for themselves.
PURCHASE TICKETS: secure-tickets.berkeley.edu/23688
Financial Engineering – Graduate
Folklore Masters Program
For more information, please consult anthropology.berkeley.edu/news-events/commencement-2025.
French
Reception to follow in Ishi Courtyard.
Gender and Women’s Studies
Geography
Pauley Ballroom is located in the MLK Jr. Student Union. The address for the building is:
2495 Bancroft Way
UC Berkeley
Berkeley, CA 94720
Global Poverty & Practice Minor
Global Studies (ISSP)
Health & Medical Sciences (JMP)
Information, School of
Integrative Biology
Interdisciplinary Studies Field Major (UGIS)
Italian Studies
Reception to follow in Ishi Court.
More info on the department website.
Journalism, Graduate School of
Lavender Graduation
The Gender Equity Resource Center and our partners are excited to invite you to the 24th Lavender Graduation Celebration. Everyone is invited, and there is no fee to attend! In order to manage capacity, we need all those who plan to attend to fill out this registration. Everyone must register — graduates, guests, current students, family, etc — everyone, please. The space is limited and priority for entering will be given to those graduates who register by April 26th (or whenever we reach capacity, whichever comes first) and then to everyone else on the list in order of when they registered.
No academic regalia (caps and gowns) are required, but feel free to be as fabulous as you wish! Graduating undergraduate students will receive a rainbow tassel. Graduating graduate students will receive a lavender cord.
Register at: tinyurl.com/CalLavGrad2024Registration.
Legal Studies and Jurisprudence & Social Policy
Linguistics
Media Studies (UGIS)
Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures
SPEAKER: Jay Crisostomo, George G. Cameron Professor of Ancient Near Eastern Civilizations and Languages; Associate Professor of Assyriology, Department of Middle Eastern Studies, University of Michigan
COMMENCEMENT SPEECH: Sumerian, Science, and Soccer or What Has MELC Ever Done for Us?
Molecular and Cell Biology – Graduate
Molecular and Cell Biology – Undergraduate
Music (Commencement)
Native American Studies
Natural Resources, Rausser College of
Naval Science (Navy ROTC)
Optometry and Vision Science, Herbert Wertheim School of
Pasifika Graduation Celebration
Philosophy
Physics
Pilipinx Graduation
Political Economy (ISSP)
Political Science
Visit the Political Science Department’s commencement page for more information, polisci.berkeley.edu/political-science-cal/commencement/ceremony-details.
Psychology
Public Health
Public Policy, The Goldman School of
Rhetoric
Tickets are $10 each. Limit of 10 per student. Children and babies need tickets. Graduating students do not need to purchase tickets for themselves.
PURCHASE TICKETS: secure-tickets.berkeley.edu/23688
Scandinavian
Reception to follow in Ishi Court.
More info on the department website.
Slavic Languages and Literatures
Reception to follow in Ishi Court.
More info on the department website.