🎓 Graduation Application & Commencement Information

Graduation Application Deadline: March 5, 2025

Before submitting your graduation application, schedule a meeting with your program advisor to confirm your eligibility. Once confirmed, complete your application online:
👉 Submit Graduation Application

🚶‍♂️ Summer 2025 Candidates: Walk-Only Requests

Are you completing your graduation requirements in Summer 2025 and within 10 credit hours of finishing? You may be eligible to participate in the commencement ceremony!
👉 Request to Participate in Commencement Ceremony

📍 2025 Commencement Details

🎓 Graduation Rehearsal

📅 Date: Thursday, June 5, 2025
🕙 Time: 10:00 AM – 2:00 PM
📍 Location: DeKalb Campus | Conference Center
495 North Indian Creek Drive, Clarkston, GA 30021

🎓 Commencement Ceremony

📅 Date: Friday, June 6, 2025
🕚 Time: 11:00 AM – 7:00 PM

Graduation Order of Events (Estimated Start Times):

  • 11:00 AM – Adult Education (GED)
  • 1:00 PM – Allied Health Professions
  • 2:30 PM – Business & Education
  • 4:00 PM – Industrial Technology & Professional Services

More details to follow. This ceremony celebrates the achievements of our students and officially confers degrees, diplomas, and Technical Certificates of Credit (TCCs).

🎩 Cap & Gown Orders

📅 Order Deadline: TBA
🔗 Order Cap & Gown Here

  • Pre-Ordered Regalia: Shipped to your mailing address.
  • No Pre-Order? Pick up your cap and gown at the Cap & Gown Pick-Up/Graduation Fair:
    📍 Location: DeKalb Campus – Building A Lobby
    🕘 Time: 9:00 AM – 4:00 PM
    📅 Date: Wednesday, May 7, 2025

Stay tuned for additional updates and announcements as the big day approaches! 🎉

For more information about graduation and how to prepare, click here.
For questions and concerns, please email Delinda Jerome, graduation specialist at jeromed@gptc.edu.