Graduation
Spring 2021 Graduation Application Deadline:
January 29, 2021
Steps 1 and 2 must be completed by January 29, 2021. Failure to meet this deadline may delay your graduation.
Congratulations! Take the following steps to apply for graduation!
If you are pursuing a Major outside of the College of Natural Sciences, please contact and apply for graduation separately with your other College Advising office. Contact us at cnsadvis@hawaii.edu or 808-956-5911 if you have any questions.
- Step 1: Graduation Pre-Check
1. Fill out the following paperwork (to be submitted in the Google Form below):
- Verification of Minor (if applicable): Please meet with your Minor Advisor and complete the Verification of Minor Form
- System Application for Graduation in Absentia (if applicable): If you are not attending UH Mānoa in your final semester and completing your final course(s) at another institution, awaiting courses to transfer in, or resolving an Incomplete Grade, please complete the System Application for Graduation in Absentia.
- Biochemistry and Chemistry:
- STAR note regarding any remaining major courses needed for graduation.
- Computer Science and Information & Computer Science:
- STAR note regarding any remaining major courses needed for graduation.
- Astronomy, Astrophysics, Mathematics and Physics:
- Complete a Graduation Worksheet to confirm any remaining major courses needed for graduation.
Please allot approximately 20 minutes to complete this form.
- Step 2: Application for Degree
Once the CNS SASC office has confirmed your eligibility for graduation in the Spring 2021 semester via your Graduation Pre-Check, you will receive an email from cnsadvis@hawaii.edu to complete the Application for Degree, which is required for conferral of your degree and issuing your diploma. Your degree will not be conferred without completing the Application for Degree.
Finished your Application for Graduation? Visit the Commencement Website!
Unfortunately, with the rising numbers of COVID-19 cases in Hawai'i, the University is unable to hold a traditional campus-wide ceremony on December 19, 2020.
Visit the Fall 2020 Commencement Website here for periodic updates.
Inquiries can be sent to graduate@hawaii.edu
Need to verify graduation before your diploma is ready?
Fill out a Request for Written Verification
This online form is used to submit a request for a letter that can certify the following:
- I am in my final semester and currently completing all of my remaining degree requirements.
- I have finished all degree requirements, my grades are posted, and am eligible for graduation. [Available once final grades are posted in STAR but before graduation has been certified. Student may submit grades via signed statements from instructors.]
- I have been approved for graduation. [Available after graduation has been certified and before the official Graduation List has been signed.]
- I have graduated but it is not yet on my transcripts.