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Graduation Information

While planning for graduation, it is important to reference the following time table to ensure that you are on track of meeting all requirement deadlines.

  • Anticipated graduation in Fall quarter- Start completing graduation application process in the middle of Summer quarter

  • Anticipated graduation in Winter quarter- Start completing graduation application process in the middle of Fall quarter

  • Anticipated graduation in Spring quarter- Start completing graduation application process in the middle of Winter quarter

  • Anticipated graduation in Summer quarter- Start completing graduation application process in the middle of Spring quarter

Please refer to the task list below for the process to follow, thus ensuring a smooth process.

Graduation Application Process

The deadline to submit your graduation application to the Graduate Programs Office is the first Friday of the quarter of graduation. If this applies to you, do the following:

  1. Print a copy of the application from the Graduate School website located here. Please follow the instructions below, not the ones printed on the form.
  2. Complete all information (print and use ink - either black or blue) underneath the headers "Student Information" and "Previous Education." Do not include your Fisher MBA degree in "Previous Education."
  3. Complete the following information under the header "Graduation Information."
    * Academic Unit and/or Department - write "Fisher College of Business — BUS ADM
    * Degree Name - write "MBA"
    * Degree Expected - write specific quarter and year
    * Check the box labeled "Non-thesis"
  4. Master's Examination Committee Members
    Leave all lines blank
  5. Sign and date on bottom of the form where indicated.
  6. Print a copy of your Degree Audit Report and attach to your Application to Graduate. Click here to obtain more information on how to create this report. If there is a problem with your degree audit and it is showing an area that is not complete, please attach an explanation of the problem.

  7. Submit the Application to Graduate and Degree Audit Report to the Graduate Programs Office in 100 Gerlach no later than the first Friday of the quarter of anticipated graduation. Do not submit the paperwork to the University Graduate School, as stated on the application.

Note that applications will not be approved without a degree audit attached or without an explanation of an incomplete audit.