Graduation

1. Submit graduation application via your student UCD Access Portal.  Please see step by step tutorial above should you need assistance.
2. Complete program specific exit survey. An email will be sent to your UNIVERSITY email account from the Office of Accreditation and Program Effectiveness in the term you applied to graduate (approximately mid semester) that provides you with instructions on how to complete this survey. All individual responses will be kept confidential and only summary results will be reported by the Office of Accreditation and Program Effectiveness.
3. Academic Honors:  Academic honors are awarded at the time of graduation, based on   the cumulative University of Colorado undergraduate GPA. To be eligible for honors, a SEHD student must have completed a minimum of 30 semester hours at the University of Colorado (on any CU campus). A cumulative CU GPA of 3.65-3.749 earns cum laude, a 3.75-3.849 earns magna cum laude and 3.85 or above earns summa cum laude honors designations.

If you are completing a School of Education & Human Development Graduate Certificate as a non-degree student (Denver campus, not Continuing Education), please complete the SEHD Non-degree Graduate Certificate Completion Form by the census deadline (per the Registrar Academic Calendar) for the term you are finishing the certificate requirements.

The purpose of submitting the SEHD Non-degree Graduate Certificate Completion Formis to request that your certificate be transcribed as completed at the end your final semester of the certificate. Your official transcript is your official record of certificate completion. Students completing certificates without degrees do not participate in commencement and do not receive diplomas.

Please check that you are admitted into the specific certificates you are seeking via UCDAccess. To check your admission in UCDAccess, go to Student Center --> Academics --> My Academics --> scroll down to the bottom to "My Program.”

We also encourage you to consider applying to one of our Master’s, EdS, or Doctoral programs through the School of Education & Human Development. Graduate Certificate courses may apply to a degree program. Please check with your advisor for potential applicability. Information about applying to our programs can be found on our graduate program pages.

For graduate students completing a “license or endorsement only” without also completing a Master’s, EdS, or Doctoral degree, you will apply for completion through UCDAccess by the “graduation” deadline for the term you are finishing the license or endorsement requirements. To apply for completion for a license or endorsement (without a degree) through UCDAccess, click “academics” and “apply for graduation” – license/endorsement students are applying for completion, which is not technically graduation, but you’ll still click on “apply for graduation” in order to apply for completion through UCDAccess. Students completing licenses/endorsements without degrees do not participate in commencement and do not receive diplomas.

Steps required to apply to graduate:

1. Submit graduation application via your student UCD Access Portal.  Please see step by step tutorial above should you need assistance.
2. Complete program specific exit survey. An email will be sent to your university email account from the Office of Accreditation and Program Effectiveness in the term you applied to graduate (approximately mid semester) that provides you with instructions on how to complete this survey. All individual responses will be kept confidential and only summary results will be reported by the Office of Accreditation and Program Effectiveness.
3. If you are taking or completing your Comps/Culminating Experience during the semester in which you are graduating, please review the information on the Comps/Culminating Experience page

Steps required to apply to graduate:

1. Submit graduation application via your student UCD Access Portal. Please see step by step tutorial above if you need assistance.
   
2. Complete exit survey: Please note the exit survey is NOT due by the posted deadline to apply to graduate. If your program requires an exit survey, you will receive an email mid semester with the links, instructions, and applicable due dates for the survey.
   
3. It is imperative that doctoral candidates are adhering to all graduate education instructions, requirements, and deadlines relating to graduation. Please visit the graduate education website for detailed information of requirements.