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Each academic year, AUS hosts two commencements: the Fall Commencement and the Spring Commencement. The Fall Commencement recognizes students who completed their degrees in either the corresponding fall semester or in the preceding summer term. The spring commencement recognizes students who completed their degrees in the corresponding spring semester.
Eligibility to Participate
To participate to a commencement, students must:
- File the Application for Graduation as they register for what they expect to be their final semester of study;
- Register for their final courses in what they expect to be their final semester of study;
- Have not walked or qualified to walk in a preceding commencement.
Note that: Passing all your final courses is not a condition for participating in the commencement of your graduation semester. All graduating students who are registered in their final courses up until the end of the withdrawal period (10th week of classes) of their graduation semester are eligible to walk in the commencement of their graduation semester even if they do not pass their final courses. Nevertheless, meeting all your degree graduation requirements is a must to earn your university diploma.
Graduation Clearance
You need to check your Banner Web account to see if you still have any holds to clear before commencement.
Note: Please contact your program of study regarding any academic obligations and the Office of Student Accounts for all financial matters
Application for
Graduation
Candidates for degrees should submit the Application
for Graduation form
to the Office of the Registrar during the
registration period for their final semester
of study. (Most students will have already
filed for graduation.)
Only after application for graduation has been
made can the Office of the Registrar begin processing
the necessary information for final clearance
for graduation.
Students should file this application to graduate
for summer, fall or spring as they register for
what they expect is their final semester of study.
Students who fail to complete all degree requirements
by the end of the semester for which they applied
to graduate need not apply.
Their application will be automatically forwarded
to the following semester.
The application triggers a review of the student's
academic record to determine whether it
is possible for the student to complete degree
requirements at the end of that term. Students
whose records indicate they are on schedule to
graduate at the end of the term for which they
have applied are invited to commencement.
Note: You
must check that your major is the correct one
on the system through browsing your Banner account. Click
here to login to your Banner-web account.
If You Are Not Attending
Commencement (Graduate in Absentia)
On the Application
for Graduation form , students should indicate whether or not they would
be attending the commencement ceremony.
Those not attending must
fill out the absentia
form. This helps the
Office of the Registrar plan for services and seating for
the graduates who will attend the
ceremony.
If your response has changed and/or you are
going to attend your commencement ceremony, you
must inform the Office of the Registrar, in writing at P.O. Box 26666, Sharjah, UAE, or send an e-mail to llukwaro@aus.edu.
You will be informed through your AUS email when diploma/certificates are ready for collection. All holds on a student record should be cleared before the diploma can be collected.
Update Your Address
Submit any changes in your local or permanent addresses immediately to the Office of the Registrar to ensure that all important university mailings, are delivered to the correct destination. It is especially important that before leaving AUS all graduates update their permanent addresses though the Change of Graduate Information form.
Tickets
Tickets may be picked up from the Office of
the Registrar, Main Building, between 9:00 a.m. and 3:30 p.m. on May 25 2008 – June 04 2008 after completing the Graduating Student Survey.
Each graduate will receive a total of Two invitation tickets for family
members and guests.
For inquiries on the extra ONE ticket please
contact Ms. Jinane Khatib: ....from 9:00 am to 4:00 pm on +(971) 6 515 2207, office: M261, second floor, main building. |
