Graduates, Get Ready for Commencement

Graduates, Get Ready for Commencement

We look forward to celebrating the Class of 2026! Additional details for the 2026 Division of Graduate Studies Commencement Ceremony are forthcoming.

To ensure that graduation is a safe and comfortable event for all attendees, we are taking this opportunity now to share these reminders and rules:

• Only ticket holders will be allowed into the venue.
• No knapsacks or large bags are permitted into the venue. All bags are subject to inspection.
• No posters or signs of any type will be allowed into the venue.
• No balloons or similar items are allowed into the venue.
• For safety, no children are allowed to sit with graduates in the designated graduate seating sections, and no children are allowed to accompany graduates onto the stage.
• All students are expected to comply with the Touro University Commencement Policy and to conduct themselves with appropriate decorum and professionalism during commencement exercises.
• In compliance with Touro’s Commencement Policy, students are permitted to wear only the official Touro University academic regalia (caps, gowns, hoods, etc.) provided to them for these proceedings. Students receiving their U.S. military commission may display their dress uniforms during their commissioning portion of the commencement program and then don their official academic regalia thereafter. Additionally, students are permitted to wear only earned honor cords or cords issued by the University to Veterans of the U.S. Military on their regalia. Students may — but are not required to — wear stoles on their regalia, but only from University-recognized academic honor societies. Students must obtain written approval from the Dean of their school prior to ordering any honor society stoles. No other honor cords, stoles, or alterations to approved University regalia are permitted at commencement. Violation of the commencement policy is subject to disciplinary action which may have penalties up to and including impact upon the actual conferral of degrees or dismissal from the university. If you have any question about what is appropriate, please ask your dean in advance of the event (or, when in doubt, leave it out).
• Participation in these ceremonies does not necessarily mean that a student has graduated. Graduation is certified officially by the Office of the Registrar only after auditing the student’s record for completion of all certificate or degree requirements. PLEASE NOTE: Touro University’s official degree conferral dates normally do not correspond to the dates on which commencement exercises take place.  

Please check here for further updates or email grosenbl4@touro.edu with any questions.