Schedule of Events
Subject to change, check back regularly. Graduating students will be notified of changes via email throughout spring 2025, if needed.
Subject to change, check back regularly. Graduating students will be notified of changes via email throughout spring 2025, if needed.
Sterling Divinity Quadrangle
All graduating students are required to attend.
Old Refectory
Marquand Chapel
1:00 PM | Reception to follow in 2nd Floor Common Room
Old Common Room
Marquand Chapel
11:00 a.m.| Reception to follow in 2nd Floor Common Room
Marquand Chapel
1:00 p.m. | Reception to follow in Old Common Room.
2nd Floor Common Room
Marquand Chapel
5:00 p.m. | Reception to follow at the Berkeley Center (363 Saint Ronan St.)
Bethesda Chapel
Sterling Divinity Quadrangle
3:45 PM Faculty and graduates gather on Quad outside chapel for procession.
Sterling Divinity Quadrangle
Refreshments provided, students and guests welcome.
Location TBA
Invite only for graduating ISM students and guests. More information provided to ISM students from ISM administration in Spring 2025.
Croll Family Entrance Hall, Yale Divinity School
For the convenience of graduates and guests as you arrive to campus and robe in your regalia.
Quadrangle Front Gate
9:15 a.m. approx. Procession begins down to Cross Campus
9:45 a.m. approx. Procession arrives at Cross Campus.
10:15 a.m. approx Academic procession into Old Campus seating area
Old Campus
11:45 a.m. approx. University ceremony ends. Graduates and families should make their way back up to Yale Divinity School for the Diploma Ceremony. It takes roughly 30-40 minutes to walk back to YDS.
Quadrangle Front Gate
12:45 p.m. Processional begins for graduates; YDS Diploma Ceremony begins
1:45 p.m. Recessional begins; YDS Diploma Ceremony ends
Sterling Divinity Quadrangle
Summer-style luncheon provided, graduates and guests welcome.