{"id":1393,"date":"2014-11-25T12:31:22","date_gmt":"2014-11-25T17:31:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/reg\/?page_id=1393"},"modified":"2025-06-10T15:36:32","modified_gmt":"2025-06-10T19:36:32","slug":"graduation","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/reg\/calendars\/graduation\/","title":{"rendered":"Graduation Dates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The degree conferral date for official <em>Summer Graduates<\/em>\u00a0is the <strong>25th<\/strong> of <strong>August<\/strong> each year.*<\/p>\n<p>The degree conferral date for official <em>Fall Graduates<\/em> is\u00a0the <strong>Friday<\/strong> before Martin Luther King, Jr. Day in <strong>January <\/strong>each year.**<\/p>\n<p>The degree conferral date for official <em>Spring Graduates <\/em>is the <strong>Sunday<\/strong> of <strong>May <\/strong>Spring Commencement Weekend.<\/p>\n<p>January, May, and August graduates are invited to attend the Boston University Commencement ceremony held each year in May (f<span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">or more detailed information please visit the<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/commencement\/\">University\u2019s Commencement website<\/a>):<\/p>\n<p><strong>Upcoming Commencement Weekends<\/strong><br \/>\nMay 14 &#8211; 17, 2026<\/p>\n<p><strong>Past Commencement Weekends<\/strong><br \/>\nMay 15 &#8211; 18, 2025<br \/>\nMay 16 &#8211; 19, 2024<br \/>\nMay 18 &#8211; 21, 2023<br \/>\nMay 19 &#8211; 22, 2022<br \/>\nMay 13 &#8211; 16, 2021<br \/>\nMay 14 &#8211; 17, 2020<br \/>\nMay 16 &#8211; 19, 2019<\/p>\n<p><em>*The degree conferral date for official Summer Graduates prior to 2022 was the 25th of September each year.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>**The degree conferral date for official Fall Graduates prior to 2023 was the 25th of January each year.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The degree conferral date for official Summer Graduates\u00a0is the 25th of August each year.* The degree conferral date for official Fall Graduates is\u00a0the Friday before Martin Luther King, Jr. Day in January each year.** The degree conferral date for official Spring Graduates is the Sunday of May Spring Commencement Weekend. January, May, and August graduates [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8796,"featured_media":0,"parent":1370,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/reg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1393"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/reg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/reg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/reg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8796"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/reg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1393"}],"version-history":[{"count":26,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/reg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9378,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/reg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1393\/revisions\/9378"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/reg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/reg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}