Graduation Schedule of Events

Order your Cap and Gown on YaleHub or here: Cap and Gown

The King-lui We Teaching Award: The Wu award, which carries with it a significant monetary prize, is intended to honor those on the faculty who combine architectural practice with good teaching. Please take a moment to vote for a faculty member whom you deem appropriate and worthy of this award which will be announced at Commencement. Kindly send your nomination by Wednesday, April 8 9:00 AM  using this link: The Professor King-lui Wu Teaching Award.

Students must clear account holds in order to receive a diploma. Please note that this is strictly enforced deadline, and the University will not release your diploma unless all holds are cleared.

Portfolios are due. This is an important requirement for degree completion. For more information about how to upload your portfolio see  Portfolio Submission Details.

Student Regalia Pick-up

If you are unable to pick up your attire at the times below, please make arrangements for someone else to pick it up for you. The person picking up your attire must present a Yale I.D. or other valid identification, as well as a signed note from you authorizing pick-up of your order. Student Regalia Pick-up. Distribution hours are as below. Please bring your Yale I.D.

Class Photo at 5:30pm, front steps of Rudolph Hall. Followed by a reception for graduates only (sorry, NO friends or family) and the Deans at Mory’s. A digital copy of the photo will be made available to all students via email.

Please refer to this note from Andrew Banner:

Dear Graduating Students,

This year’s celebration of your work will be on display during a reception for family and friends on Sunday, May 17th. The display will be on monitors encircling the 4th Floor and 7th Floor pits. Each of you will prepare a digital poster that will be shown on a rotating cycle on the monitors. The content of that poster is up to you – it could be a single image, a grid of favorite projects … whatever you would like to show to sum up and celebrate your time here. Additionally, you will be able to place one model on your current desk.

Attached is a template for the poster. This includes a title block and is formatted at 3840 x 2160 pixels, which will allow for full screen display on our monitors. Please do not modify that set up or the resolution.

Your output should be as a JPG file. See the attached screenshot for reference. Note that this is at 72 dpi, which will be the right match for the monitors. There is no need to output at a higher resolution.

Your file should be named as follows: LASTNAME-25.jpg

Please drop your JPG files in the designated folder using this link:

2026 Year End Celebration Poster

The deadline for submitting your files is Thursday, May 14th at 8 pm.

Template

Template pdf

On Sunday evening, please invite your family and friends to join faculty and staff at a YSOA Rudolph Hall Reception.

Faculty arrive to dress in Commencement Regalia.

Students arrive already dressed and gather near Rudolph Hall stairs.

Faculty and students process to Cross Campus.

The University ceremony (tickets required) will begin at 10:30. Graduates, two digital tickets will be emailed directly to you. Without tickets, your two guests cannot enter the Old Campus. Immediately following the Old Campus ceremony, please proceed (and direct your guests to proceed) to the High Street entrance of the Yale University Art Gallery’s Sculpture Garden. The entrance to the YSOA Diploma Ceremony will be clearly marked. Those in your party who are not able to use stairs, should proceed to the main entrance of the Yale Art Gallery and use the elevators. We have been asked to remind you that flowers and balloons are not allowed inside the gallery, even if just passing through on way to the gardens.

Yale School of Architecture Diploma Ceremony. (NOTE:  The Diploma Ceremony will be held in the YUAG McNeil Lecture Hall in the event of rain).

Lunch for all graduates, faculty, guests and staff. Lunch will be served in the 4th Floor Review space. Seating for all guests through the 4th and & 5th Floors (the 7th floor Rudolph Hall patio will be available for lunch or photos; the Loria Terrace is not available.)

Take individual photos on the Paul Rudolph Hall Penthouse Balcony (first come, first served.)

Lunch concludes.