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Commencement 2025

Frequently Asked Questions

Congratulations to Class of 2025!

Student Information

  • March 14 - Students who apply to graduate by this date are gauranteed to participate in commencement (Fall 2024, Spring and Summer 2025).  Student name will be included in the program and applicable honors. 
  • March 15 - Students who apply to graduate starting this date, may attend ceremony, but student name and honors will not be gauranteed in the program.
  • March 25 - Ticket portal opens to RSVP to event, claim tickets if attending ceremony, confirm and pre-record name to be read at ceremony (including affirmed name).
  • April 18 - Ticket and RSVP portal closes (No longer guaranteed guest tickets and pre-recording student name to be read at ceremony)

Fall 2024, Spring and Summer 2025.

Please view on main commencement page the “What to Expect Video” that will provided helpful information leading up to your ceremony.

Graduation items are now available at Bronco Bookstore while supplies last.

Next distribution will be at the Bronco Advising Center beginning April 7.  A picture I.D. and Bronco I.D. number will be needed for verification.

All graduates must wear the approved CPP cap and gown with sash, and tassel assigned to your college or degree.  Other university gowns are not permitted.

Yes, only appropriate content.

Students can email Bronco Advising Center (bac@cpp.edu) for any letter requests.

Graduate Student Information

Please purchase approved CPP master gown and hood for your specific degree at Bronco Bookstore. While supplies last.

Please arrive on campus one hour before your assigned ceremony.

  • Park in "Lot F"
  • Proceed to Engineering Meadow, Building 9 breezeway to student check-in
  • At student check-in you will pick up a label with barcode for your name reading
  • Proceed to Hooding Garden (Bldg. 1 Lawn Area)

Please carry your hood to the event.  You will be hooded by department faculty at the Hooding Garden near line-up area (Bldg. 1 Lawn Area), prior to procession.

Yes, a professional photographer will take photos at hooding garden and will provide proofs.

Faculty and graduates only.  Pre-hooding will be live streamed before each ceremony.  Link will be shared week of event, on commencement website.

Master graduates will attend same assigned ceremony with undergrads.

Ceremony Day

Access for graduates and guests with disabilities will be available for all Commencement ceremonies. Services available are noted in this page.  Please note that wheelchairs and other assistive devices of a personal nature will not be available.  There will be a significant walking distance from the parking areas to the ceremony locations, so please plan accordingly. For additional information please email drc@cpp.edu.

Clear bags will be required. They should be made of vinyl or plastic material, must not exceed 12” x 12” x 6” and should not have obscured interior pockets. Exceptions will be made only for:

  •  Purses, wallets, or bags that are 6” x 6” or smaller
  • Medically necessary items, including diaper bags that accompany infants

 All other backpacks, purses, camera bags, other bags and carriers must be returned to the vehicle or left at home.

All bags are subject to search. All guests and graduates must go through the bag check at the ticketing areas around the Commencement venue.

Review the list of Prohibited Items on the campus safety section of the Commencement website. Prohibited items include: alcohol, artificial noisemakers, balloons, confetti cannons, tripods and large photographic equipment, wagons and carts, and weapons.

No.  To ensure the safety and comfort of our guests, tickets are mandatory for attendance at all ceremonies.  The ticket portal will be accessible on March 25 to students who have applied to graduate.  Approved graduates will receive ticket information for their guests.

These students received a make up ceremony in 2021 through 2023.

Graduates do not need a ticket, they are only for family and friends 2yrs. or older.

Students will be emailed after the ticket portal closes if extra tickets become available.  At this time we cannot gaurantee. 

Tickets have a unique code for each event and will not scan for a different ceremony.

University Quad at Cal Poly Pomona. For more information view campus map, and select the commencement box. 

Yes, each ceremony will be livestreamed.  Links will be shared on commencement website the week prior to event.

Ceremonies will be 90 mins or less.

Every graduate will receive a program after they cross the stage. All guests will be able to access the event program in PDF format on commencement website during event, or scan the QR code at each ticket entry gate.