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Spring 2024 Commencement Information

Eligible graduates can now RSVP to claim up to eight guest tickets for 2024 Commencement, scheduled for May 17-19, 2024 at Golden 1 Center.

All eligible graduates are encouraged to review the Guest Tickets web page for more information about ticketing, including registration windows and a step-by-step guide to claim tickets.

The full Commencement schedule can be viewed here.

For any questions, you can reach the Commencement Office at commencement@csus.edu.

Spring 2024: Culminating Experience Workshop

The Office of Graduate Studies requires all students to attend our mandatory Culminating Experience Format Workshop. The workshop is designed to help students:

  1. Understand the final steps to degree completion;
  2. Format their culminating experience (for those who are completing a thesis, project, or dissertation);
  3. With strategies for studying for the Comprehensive Examination (for those completing a Comprehensive Examination).

Registration Period

  • Registration Opens: February 5, 2024 at 9:00 am
  • Registration Closes: March 22, 2024 at 5:00 pm

Deadline to Complete the Workshop: March 29, 2024 at 11:59PM

Workshop Completion

Thesis/Project/Dissertation: In order to satisfy the workshop requirement, students will need to complete all modules and the quiz at the end of the modules. The quiz will test students on material covered in the preceding modules; to pass the quiz, students must receive a minimum of 70% (7 out of 10) on the quiz. Students can take the quiz an unlimited number of times until they reach the minimum requirement.

Comprehensive Exam: In order to satisfy the workshop requirement, students will need to complete all modules and the assessment at the end of the modules. There is no quiz for this workshop. After students have completed their assessment they will see a thank you message displayed, this indicates completion of the workshop.

Summer 2024: Culminating Experience Workshop

Registration Period

  • Registration Opens: June 7, 2024 at 9:00 am
  • Registration Closes: July 17, 2024 at 3:00 pm

Deadline to Complete the Workshop: August 2, 2024 at 11:59PM

Spring 2024: Thesis, Project, Dissertation Review Registration

Please Note:

  • Students must have completed the mandatory format workshop prior to submitting their Culminating Experience.
  • Check-Ins are for students who are graduating in the current semester to submit their Culminating Experience.
  • No walk-ins will be accepted. An appointment is required.

Disclaimer: Ample appointment slots have been allocated to accommodate all graduating students. However, students are encouraged to sign up for appointments early in the submission cycle. Failure to sign up for an appointment, and/or show up to an appointment may delay a student's degree completion timeline.

Students should be advised that if they cancel an appointment once the submission period begins, OGS cannot guarantee another appointment will be available, and thus, students may have to move their graduation date and submit during the next submission cycle.

How to Make an Appointment:

When you click the link below, you will be redirected to the appointment registration website; follow these instructions to schedule your appointment:

  1. Click Schedule An Appointment on the right hand side of the screen.
  2. Type of appointment: select Advising in the drop-down selection.
  3. Service: scroll to Graduate Studies and select T/P/D Review and Submission
  4. Pick an available appointment date and time (from the table below) for your review date.

Note: If you are a staff member (current or previous) of the university, you will need to change your view in EAB to "Student" as it will automatically show your "Staff" view.

Thesis / Project / Dissertation Review Appointment and Submission Dates:

  • Monday, April 22, 2024 - Thursday, April 25, 2024 from 9:00 am - 6:00 pm;
  • Friday, April 26, 2024 from 9:00 am - 3:00 pm;
  • Monday, April 29, 2024 - Thursday, May 2, 2024 from 9:00 am - 6:00 pm;
  • Friday, May 3, 2024 from 9:00 am - 3:00 pm.

Registration opens: April 8, 2024 9:00 am.

Registration closes: May 1, 2024 4:30 pm.

Deadline to submit: Friday, May 3, 2024 at 3:00 pm.

Spring 2024 T/P/D Review Appointment Registration will open on April 8, 2024 at 9:00am

Summer 2024: Thesis, Project, Dissertation Review Registration

Thesis / Project / Dissertation Review Appointment and Submission Dates:

  • Monday, July 29, 2024 - Friday, August 2, 2024 from 9:00 am - 3:00 pm;

Registration Opens: July 8, 2024 at 9:00 am

Registration Closes: August 1, 2024 at 3:00 pm.

Deadline to submit: Friday, August 2, 2024 at 3:00 pm.