Friday, May 1, 2026
Doctoral Hooding Ceremony, Avrum Gudelsky Auditorium
- Check In: 3:00 p.m. at the Library. Please bring your regalia. Be sure to stop at the table to pick up your name card, as this will be used to announce your name and dissertation title when you cross the stage.
- Doctoral Hooding Ceremony: 4:00 p.m. Due to available space in the Auditorium, a maximum of 3 guests is allowed.
- The event will be live streamed online and to overflow areas in the Library and the Student Center via the Capitol Technology University YouTube Channel.
Graduating Student & Alumni Reception (for All Graduates and Alumni), McGowan Academic Center
- 5:30 p.m. Bring your guests and join your classmates, faculty, staff, and fellow alumni for refreshments, fun, and conversation in celebration of your distinct and well-deserved accomplishments.
Saturday, May 2, 2026
Commencement Ceremony for All Graduates
- Check In: 8:00 a.m. It is imperative that graduates arrive on time to check in. Be sure to bring your regalia. Check-in is located in the Avrum Gudelsky Auditorium. Once you have checked in, you must remain in the auditorium. During check-in you will receive your name card used to announce you on stage. Please verify your information is correct on this card. Do not lose this card. You will hand it to the stage staff as you step on-stage during commencement.
- Processional Preparation: 8:30 a.m. This time will be used to ensure your cap, gown and hood are fitted properly.
- Roll Call and Lineup: 9:30 a.m. This will occur in the auditorium. Weather permitting, the lineup will be outside of the building. You will be lined up alphabetically by degree program.
- Processional Begins: 9:45 a.m. The university marshal will lead the processional followed by the stage guests, trustees, faculty, candidates for undergraduate degrees, master's degrees and doctoral degrees, to the commencement tent. For the recessional back to the front of the university, the stage participants will exit first, and the graduates will follow them.