Diploma Distribution
Spring
All students will receive their diplomas while participating in their college's commencement ceremony. Students who do not attend the ceremony will be mailed their diploma(s) approximately three weeks after the ceremony to their permanent residence or eLion diploma mailing address.
Diplomas and minor certificates that were not distributed at commencement ceremonies and could not be mailed due to incomplete address information are kept at the Registrar's office for five years following the graduation date. After five years the alumnus wanting a diploma must request a reissued diploma.
Summer
Doctoral degree students will receive their diplomas while participating in the commencement ceremony. Doctoral diplomas for those students who do not attend the ceremony will be mailed the week following the ceremony to the student's permanent residence or eLion diploma mailing address. Diplomas for all other students will be mailed approximately the third week in August to their permanent residence or eLion diploma mailing address.
Fall
Doctoral degree students will receive their diplomas while participating in the commencement ceremony. Doctoral diplomas for those students who do not attend the ceremony will be mailed the first week in January to the student's permanent residence or eLion diploma mailing address. Diplomas for all other students will be mailed approximately the third week in January to their permanent residence or eLion diploma mailing address.