Ticketing Information

Due to the limited amount of guest seating, tickets are required for all guests attending the graduation ceremony. Tickets are not required for children under 2 years of age.

How to Get Tickets

Tickets are only available to eligible candidates for graduation who have both filed the Application for Graduation and submitted the Commencement Participation Form. If these two criteria are met, the student will receive one student ticket and up to six reserved guest tickets. Eligible graduates who register after the deadline for a ceremony may be offered fewer than six tickets, dependent on the remaining ticket supply. Tickets must be picked up during Reserved Ticket Distribution (see below for details and Graduating Student Information for dates).

Ticket Distribution

Reserved ticket distribution takes place at the Campus Information Center in Webb University Center during the period indicated on the Graduating Student Information page. The Campus Information Center has day, evening, and weekend hours to allow ample time for all candidates to pick up their tickets. You may call the Campus Information Center to confirm hours at 757.683.5914.

Tickets must be picked up, in person, by the graduation candidate with a photo ID (see policies). If you wish to send someone in your place to pick up your tickets, that person will need the following:

• a copy of your photo ID
• a signed note giving that specific person permission to pick up your tickets
• his/her own photo ID

Extra Tickets

If there are any additional guest tickets available they will be distributed solely through an online lottery system (Extra Ticket Lottery). Graduation candidates must have filed the Application for Graduation and submitted the Commencement Participation Form in order to enter the lottery. The lottery form will be available on this website beginning the first day of Reserved Ticket Distribution until the end of the lottery entry period (see Graduating Student Information for dates).

Candidates may enter the lottery for up to 10 additional tickets. Tickets are awarded individually, so an entrant may not receive his/her full request. Every entrant will receive notification of award, regardless if he/she has been awarded extra tickets. Extra tickets are not guaranteed.

Campus Information Center staff do not have extra tickets.

It is a violation of the student code of conduct to sell commencement tickets

Ticket Policies
(updated January 3, 2008)

In order to ensure that every graduate has the opportunity to have his or her family and friends attend the commencement ceremony, the following policies are in place concerning ticketing and distribution.

• Reserved guest tickets are available only for eligible graduation candidates who have completed the following two steps by the prescribed deadlines:
  • Filed the Application for Graduation and had his/her graduation status set as "Pending"
  • Completed the Commencement Participation Form for the requested ceremony
• Graduation candidates who have completed the above two steps by the prescribed deadlines are allotted a maximum of 6 reserved guest tickets.
  • Eligible graduation candidates who late-register via the manual participation form via email may not receive the full 6 tickets. The amount offered will be dependent upon remaining ticket supplies.
  • There is a possibility that those who register close to the date of commencement may receive 2 or fewer tickets.
• Each graduation candidate will receive one student ticket, which he/she must present at Student Registration on the day of the ceremony.
• Reserved guest tickets must be picked up in person at the Campus Information Center in Webb University Center during Reserved Ticket Distribution.
• A photo ID (student ID, driver's license, military ID or state-issued ID) must be presented in order for tickets to be distributed.
• Any extra tickets will be distributed solely through the Extra Ticket Lottery.
  • Only candidates who have already completed a Participation Form may enter the lottery.
  • All lottery entries must be made online through the Commencement Central website.
  • The lottery entry form will only be available during the Lottery Entry Period.
  • Eligible candidates may only enter the lottery once.
  • Lottery results will be announced via email on a prescribed day following the Lottery Entry Period.
  • Extra tickets are not guaranteed and a candidate may not receive his/her entire request.
• Candidates are responsible for safeguarding their guest tickets. Tickets cannot be replaced under any circumstance.
• It is a violation of the student code of conduct to sell commencement tickets.