Mississippi State updates times for May 15 graduation ceremonies
Contact: Harriet Laird
STARKVILLE, Miss.—Mississippi State University is updating its times for spring graduation for the two ceremonies on Thursday, May 15. The update accommodates a monthly meeting that day of the board of trustees of the Mississippi Institutions of Higher Learning.
Graduation organizers have shifted the original 9:30 a.m. ceremony that day to 1:30 p.m., with the second ceremony moving from 3:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. There are no changes to ceremonies on Friday, May 16, or to the Doctoral Hooding, Doctor of Veterinary Medicine or Meridian ceremonies. Doors open 1.5 hours prior to each MSU ceremony.
The full graduation week schedule—including new times for Thursday, May 15—is as follows:
- Tuesday, May 13
- 11:30 a.m.—Doctor of Veterinary Medicine, Humphrey Coliseum
- 4 p.m.—Doctoral Hooding, Lee Hall
- Wednesday, May 14
- 11 a.m.—MSU-Meridian, Riley Center, Meridian
- Thursday, May 15
- 1:30 p.m.—College of Arts & Sciences, Humphrey Coliseum
- 6:30 p.m.—ACCESS; College of Agriculture & Life Sciences; College of Education, Humphrey Coliseum
- Friday, May 16
- 9:30 a.m.—College of Architecture, Art & Design; College of Business, Humphrey Coliseum
- 3:30 p.m.—Academic Affairs; Bagley College of Engineering; College of Forest Resources; College of Professional and Continuing Studies; College of Veterinary Medicine, Humphrey Coliseum
For more information on spring graduation at MSU, visit www.registrar.msstate.edu/students/graduation.
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