Crucial Elements

Please keep the following important points in mind:

  • The Student Records and Registrar’s Office must have an official high school transcript or High School Equivalency transcript on file in order to award your credential.
  • A program grade point average of 2.0 or higher and a cumulative grade point average of 2.0 or higher is required to award any curriculum credential.

Steps to Apply for Graduation

Summer 2025 Graduation Application is open until June 26, 2025.

Have your advisor review your student record to determine if you are eligible to graduate this semester.

The Graduation Application for Summer 2025 closed on June 27, 2025.

Please check back after Fall 2025 semester has begun for the Fall Graduation Application.

Order your Graduation Regalia (cap, gown, tassel) from Herff Jones before the July 11, 2025 deadline.

Practice will be held at the Dennis A. Wicker Civic Center & Conference Center at 1801 Nash St., Sanford, NC on the following days and times:

  • Tuesday, July 8, 2025 at 1:00 p.m. or 5:30 p.m.

Please only attend ONE practice time.

Date: August 7, 2025

Location: Dennis A. Wicker Civic Center, 1801 Nash St, Sanford, NC 27330

Remember to arrive 45 minutes before the ceremony dressed in your cap and gown. Check-in with staff at the small auditorium. Graduation staging is in the small auditorium where we meet to line up for the ceremony.