Commencement

Academic regalia can be purchased in three locations:

In person at the Ville'age Store on campus March 5, 2025 through May 12, 2025.

Please use their website to order with in-store pick-up. Please allow two business days for fulfillment.

On-line at Herff Jones

On the Ville'age Store website where you may choose shipping or Buy On-line Pickup in Store.

In order to participate in Commencement, you must wear the proper academic regalia.

For further details please contact The Ville'age Store by phone 914.323.7217 or by email:  villeagestore@mville.edu

 

The packages are as follows:

Bachelor package (cap, gown, tassel, hood)

Master package (cap, gown, tassel, hood)

Doctorate package (tam, gown, tassel, hood)

All tassels should be red and white for undergraduate students and black for graduate students. The color of the hood corresponds to the degree:

Bachelor of Arts (BA): narrow white trim 
Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA): narrow brown trim 
Bachelor of Science (BS): narrow Olive trim 
Bachelor of Science Nursing Major (BS): narrow apricot trim 
Master of Arts in Teaching (MAT): wide light blue trim 
Master of Science (MS): wide olive trim 
Master of Science, Family Nurse Practitioner (MS): wide apricot trim 
Master of Professional Studies (MPS): wide light blue trim 
Master of Fine Arts (MFA): wide white trim 
Master of Education (Med): wide light blue trim 
Advanced Certificate (ADVCERT) or Professional Diploma (PD): students are advised to select regalia corresponding to their previously earned master’s degree 
Doctor of Educational Leadership (EdD): powder blue trim 

 

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Each ceremony will be streamed live on the University’s main webpage and social media platforms. The ceremonies will also be available through YouTube for future viewing.

 

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The commencement ceremony includes: The academic procession, invocation, the national anthem, greeting from the president, student greetings (UG), presentation of candidates for honorary degrees, honorary degree recipient and keynote speaker, (graduate/doctoral ceremony has the addition of presenting doctoral candidates and hooding), presentation of college honors, presentation of candidates for degrees, conferring of degrees, alma mater, and the recessional. 

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All degree requirements must be completed and degrees must be conferred before a diploma can be ordered. Diplomas are available approximately 6 weeks after degrees are conferred. Graduates will be emailed additional information regarding diplomas.Back to top

Manhattanville

2900 Purchase Street
Purchase NY 10577

By Car:

From New York City
Deegan Expressway/New York State Thruway (I-87) north to exit 8. Right to Cross Westchester Expressway (I-287), east to Hutchinson River Parkway. North on Hutchinson River Parkway to exit 16 (in New York, not Connecticut) at Route 120 (Purchase Street). Left on Purchase Street to campus.

From Long Island

Throgs Neck or Whitestone Bridge north to Hutchinson River Parkway north to exit 16 (in New York, not Connecticut) at Route 120 (Purchase Street). Left on Purchase Street to campus.

From Upstate New York and Northern New Jersey
Tappan Zee Bridge East to Cross Westchester Expressway (I-287). East to Hutchinson River Parkway (Exit 9 north). North on Hutchinson River Parkway to exit 16 (in New York, not Connecticut) at Route 120 (Purchase Street). Left on Purchase Street to campus.

From Putnam and Dutchess Counties
South on I-684 to exit 2. Follow Route 120 south (Purchase Street) to campus (about 4 miles).

From Connecticut
Merritt Parkway South to Hutchinson River Parkway south to exit 16 in New York (not in Connecticut). Turn right onto Route 120 (Purchase Street) and follow to campus on left.
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New England Thruway South to Cross Westchester Expressway (I-287) west to Hutchinson River Parkway north (exit 9). Hutchinson River Parkway north to exit 16 at Route 120 (Purchase Street). Left on Purchase Street to campus.

By Public Transportation or Plane:

Train or Bus
Metro North Railroad from NYC Grand Central Terminal. Harlem Division Line to White Plains.
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Anderson Hill Road bus (Bee-Line No. 12) or Taxi to the campus.

By Plane
Manhattanville University also is easily accessible from all New York City area airports: Westchester County Airport, Kennedy International Airport, LaGuardia Airport and Newark International Airport.

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Undergraduate ceremony: You are eligible to participate in the undergraduate ceremony if you earned your bachelor’s degree in August 2024/January 2025, or if you are projected to complete your undergraduate degree requirements in May 2025.

Graduate/Doctoral ceremony: You are eligible to participate in the graduate/doctoral ceremony if you earned your master’s degree, doctoral degree, advanced certificate, or professional diploma in August 2024/January 2025. For masters, doctoral, advanced certificate, and professional diploma students projected to complete program requirements in May 2025, you are also eligible to participate in commencement (note: doctoral students must also successfully defend their dissertations prior to the ceremony to be eligible to participate).

Remember: if you’re completing requirements during the Spring 2025 term, you must apply to graduate on ServiceHub.

Note: students who have applied to graduate in August 2025 are also eligible to participate in the appropriate May 2025 Commencement ceremony while remaining requirements are pending (apart from doctoral students).

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Residential graduates should complete the move out process by Sunday, May 18, by 12 noon.  Please contact Residence Life for more details.  

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