2025 Humanities commencement ceremonies
Most Humanities departments participate in the divisional ceremony. The English Department, Linguistics Department and Philosophy Department hold their own individual ceremonies. Please note the following schedule to determine the time and location for your ceremony.
Humanities Division
Saturday, June 14, 2025, 1 p.m., Royce Hall
For all graduates in Art History; Asian Languages and Cultures; Classics; Comparative Literature; Digital Humanities; European Languages and Transcultural Studies; Near Eastern Languages and Cultures; Slavic, East European and Eurasian Languages and Cultures; the Study of Religion IDP; and Spanish & Portuguese.
English Department
Sunday, June 15, 2025, 2 p.m., Dickson Court North
Linguistics Department
Sunday, June 15, 2025, 5:30 p.m., Royce Hall
Philosophy Department
Saturday, June 14, 2025, 3:30 p.m., Royce Hall
Instructions for Humanities Commencement
Your regalia is your ticket. For the Humanities Division ceremony, graduating students do not need a ticket to enter Royce Hall. Your graduation regalia will serve as your ticket.
Participants’ entrance. Students participating in the ceremonies should enter Royce Hall via a dedicated entrance. The participant entrance is located at the front of Royce Hall, to the left of the main entrance (as you face the building).
No re-entry permitted. Make sure you have everything you need when you check in for the ceremony. Participants are not permitted to exit and re-enter the venue before walking in the ceremony.
Please arrive on time. Students participating in the Humanities ceremony must arrive with regalia promptly at 12:30 p.m.
Clear bags or coin purses policy. According to Royce Hall regulations, only clear bags or coin purses meeting certain specifications may be brought into the building on Commencement day:
• Bag must be clear plastic, vinyl or PVC and must not exceed 12”W x 12”H x 6”D.
• A one-gallon clear plastic freezer bag (Ziploc or similar) would be permitted.
• Small clutch bag measuring no larger than 4.5” x 6.5”, with or without a handle or strap. Such bags may be carried separately or within a plastic bag.
• Diaper bags are permitted, provided an infant is present.
• These policies apply to all graduating students and audience members, so please notify your guests of the guidelines as well.
General information for students
Eligibility to participate in the Humanities ceremony
Students must have a degree expected term in one of the approved Humanities majors and minors for one of the following quarters: fall 2024, winter 2025, spring 2025 or summer 2025.
Please note that for fall 2025 candidates, students must submit a Special Inclusion Petition with the College of Letters and Science. Please complete the petition on my.ucla.edu to participate in the Humanities commencement ceremonies. It is the student’s responsibility to ensure that these requirements are met.
Ordering student regalia
Students must wear regalia to take part in the Humanities commencement ceremony. Students should order regalia through Graduation Etc., which is accessible online through the UCLA Store. We recommend ordering regalia by the beginning of April 2025.
Ticketing for the Humanities ceremony
• Students may reserve tickets from May 9, 2025, at 12 noon, through May 23, 2025, at 11:59 p.m. via my.ucla.edu.
• Students participating in the Humanities Division ceremony are eligible for 4 free tickets. Additionally, students have the possibility of up to 4 waitlist tickets at $20 each. Guest tickets are required for the Royce Hall venue and will need to be scanned at entry.
• Waitlist tickets are not guaranteed, but if given to students, you will be charged directly.
• Graduating students do not need a ticket to enter the ceremony, your regalia is your ticket into the ceremony.
• Students with ticketing issues for the Humanities Division ceremony should contact Barbara Van Nostrand at bvannost@humnet.ucla.edu.
• After the May 23 deadline, no ticket orders are guaranteed. Ticket requests made after the deadline will be handled on a first-come, first-serve basis.
Department receptions
Please contact your department undergraduate Student Affairs Officer for details about commencement week receptions hosted by your department.
UCLA College ceremonies
Please the UCLA College Commencement page for more information.
Commencement FAQs
No, as a graduate you do not need a ticket. But you must RSVP for the ceremony via my.ucla.edu during the open RSVP/ticket ordering window. Your regalia is your “ticket” to the ceremony.
Yes. A ticket is required for every person attending the ceremony, so that event staff have an accurate count of the number of attendees, which is required in the event of an emergency, and because patrons with babies often use a second seat for baby items.
The division’s Commencement Coordinator will assess after ticketing ends for students on or around May 27, 2025, and will let the students know via my.ucla.edu soon after that if waitlist tickets will be released. An email from your department’s student affairs officer will inform you of waitlist tickets being released.
Please see the Disability Accommodation page on the UCLA College Commencement website for resources and information. Royce Hall and Humanities Division staff are unable to assist.
No. Due to limited capacity in the venue, we cannot accommodate any student who is not a declared major or minor under the Humanities Division’s participating departments.
The Humanities Division uses the College Commencement Online Program. If you have UCLA directory restrictions or FERPA restrictions, your name may not show up in the program. Please contact the College Commencement staff to ask for your name to be included in the program with directory or FERPA restrictions.
Please contact the division Commencement Coordinator, Barbara Van Nostrand, at bvannost@humnet.ucla.edu to ask if space is still available for the ceremony.
The ceremony will last no longer than 1 hour and 45 minutes.