Nearly 2,000 students to receive degrees

Posted noon Friday , May 9 , 2025

Nearly 2,000 students to receive degrees

UW-La Crosse will celebrate more than 1,500 seniors and nearly 300 graduate students during spring commencement Saturday, May 17, at the La Crosse Center.

Commencement will be broken into three ceremonies throughout the day:

• 9:30 a.m. | Undergraduate students
  • College of Business Administration
  • School of Education [all majors, including EC-MC; MC-EA; World Language Education; Art Education; Music Education; PETE/PASHE; STEP (English, Mathematics, Science, & Social Studies)]
    
• 12:30 p.m. | Undergraduate and graduate students
  • Associate degree candidates
  • College of Arts, Social Sciences & Humanities
  • Graduate degree candidates
• 3:30 p.m. | Undergraduate students
  • College of Science & Health

Tickets are not necessary, but a maximum of six guests per graduating student is recommended.

For those who cannot attend, the ceremonies will be livestreamed .

Before commencement, some graduate programs will hold their own hooding or pinning events.

Other graduate programs will participate in a hooding ceremony hosted by Graduate & Extended Learning.

For more information about UWL's spring commencement, including a checklist and instructions for students, visit www.uwlax.edu/commencement .