Graduation
The Degree Application Form must be submitted by late September for an expected December degree or certificate and by mid-February for an expected May/June or August degree or certificate. To be safe, get this done by 9/24 and 2/10, respectively. (For exact dates, call Office of Graduate Studies, 617-287-5700.) M.A. students, but not certificate students, must include the $150 commencement fee.
When students have completed all of their requirements -- all courses, the Synthesis, the oral presentation, and the exit self-assessment -- the Program Coordinator informs Graduate Records and the diploma is issued.
The Synthesis Project requires a thirty to forty-five minute presentation before
the student's advisor and reader(s), the Synthesis Seminar Participants, and any guests.
Information on Commencement is at http://www.umb.edu/commencement. CCT graduates should get a white hood because they are M.A. students, even though the program is housed in the College of Ed. and M.Ed. students get a light blue hood. (The hood is the neck thing, not that hat.)