Convocation 2025
NSCAD University will host its 2025 Convocation Ceremony on Tuesday, May 13 at 2:00pm. The ceremony will be held at the Light House Arts Centre (1800 Argyle Street, Halifax, NS).
If you are a student who is eligible to graduate and you have not yet submitted an Application to Graduate, please email registrar@nscad.ca for assistance.
Graduating students who have submitted an application to graduate will receive an email in February with information about how to confirm your attendance at the ceremony, as well as other important information you will need ahead of the event.
Please be sure to check your NSCAD email often, or visit the Office of Student Experience (2nd Floor, Duke Building) if you have questions about the ceremony.
Convocation 2024: Photos
To all our graduates — congratulations! You’ve worked hard to receive your degree at NSCAD University, and we are proud to welcome you to the NSCAD alumni community. Photos by Wiebke Schroeder.
Congratulations! You’ve worked hard to receive your degree at NSCAD University, and we are proud to have you as part of the NSCAD alumni community. To help you follow the necessary steps to get that degree in your hands, read on.
Note: It is the student’s responsibility to ensure that all degree and program requirements have been met. Submission of the Application to Graduate form by the required deadlines (see below) ensures that the registrar can review your program requirements and complete a “degree check”.
Graduation and Commencement
NSCAD degree students may graduate after completing their degree requirements in the fall, winter or summer semesters. However, only one official graduation and commencement ceremony will be held in the spring. At this ceremony, any students who already received their diplomas on the degree conferral dates listed below are eligible to attend and cross the stage with their peers. All students who had degrees conferred the previous fall or summer will be listed in the official spring graduation program.
To be considered for graduation, students must submit an application to graduate–available for download on the Forms Portal page along with a $50 graduation fee by the published deadline.
