Graduation

Date: 

Thursday, May 30, 2019 (All day)

Location: 

Multiple Locations

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Harvard Medical School/Harvard School of Dental Medicine Commencement and Class Day will take place Thursday, May 30, 2019.

On this day of ceremony and festivities, graduating students are granted their degrees and celebrate their accomplishments.

Schedule of Events

More detailed information is distributed to graduating students.

Commencement Exercises at Harvard Yard
8:00 – 11:30 a.m.

President Faust confers degrees on graduates of all Harvard University schools. Morning exercises are held rain or shine in Tercentenary Theatre and will be livestreamed on the Harvard home page. This year’s Commencement speaker is German Chancellor Angela Merkel.

Class Day on the Quad
2:00 – 4:30 p.m.

Students are granted the MD or DMD degree and any other advanced degrees they have earned; they are hooded and receive their diplomas. This year’s Class Day speaker is Mona Hanna-Attisha, the pediatrician, educator and public health advocate whose research exposed the lead crisis in the water supply in Flint, Michigan, in 2015.

Use #HarvardMed19 to tag any of your social posts as your celebrate graduation.

Graduating MD students