All Undergraduates receiving a Bachelor's degree are invited to the Undergraduate Ceremony on Friday, May 30, 2025. Names will be read and photos taken; graduates will cross the stage at this ceremony.
- 10 am to 12 pm; doors open at 8:30 am.
- Location: Killian Court
Be sure to review the instructions for graduates, including how to claim tickets.
Graduates and guests are invited to the Johnson Athletics Center and Kresge Oval for a reception following the Undergraduate Ceremony.
Tickets
Participating degree candidates are eligible to receive up to four (4) guest tickets to the OneMIT Commencement Ceremony and four (4) guest tickets to the Undergraduate Degree Ceremony.
You can claim your electronic tickets using the desktop or mobile version of the MIT Atlas app or atlas-apps.mit.edu. See Tickets for instructions.
Those who have extra tickets may transfer them to someone who needs them. Do not sell them. MIT policy is that no tickets for MIT Commencement ceremonies may be bought or sold under any circumstances. Individuals known to have accepted or given payment for Commencement tickets risk revocation of all electronic tickets assigned to them, whether or not those tickets remain in their possession, and may be subject to discipline. Degree candidates are required to attest during the ticketing process that they will not buy or sell MIT Commencement tickets.
PROCESSIONAL
Killian Court Brass Ensemble
conducted by Kenneth Amis
WELCOME
Sally Kornbluth
President
INTRODUCTION
Megha Vemuri
President, Class of 2025
MUSICAL PERFORMANCE
“Spain,” by Chick Corea
Performed by:
Emily Jin ’25
Vocals; Department of Economics
Andrew Li ’25
Saxophone; Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
ADDRESS
Melissa Nobles
Chancellor
INTERLUDE
Killian Court Brass Ensemble
INTRODUCTION OF DEGREES
Cynthia Barnhart ’86 PhD ’88
Provost
PRESENTATION OF DEGREES
Diplomas will be presented by the School deans in a simultaneous, alternating pattern. Degree recipients will approach from both sides of the stage, announced in alphabetical order by last name within their departments.
CLOSING
Sally Kornbluth
President
RECESSIONAL
Killian Court Brass Ensemble
Chancellor Melissa Nobles is responsible for overseeing more than 60 interconnected offices at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology that deliver a whole student education by supporting undergraduate and graduate students’ academic success, fostering community and wellbeing, and cultivating personal and intellectual growth. Reporting to the president, the chancellor and the provost are the Institute’s two most senior academic officers.
Chancellor Nobles is the Class of 1922 professor of political science and has been a member of the MIT faculty since 1995. Before being appointed chancellor in 2021, she served as the Kenan Sahin Dean of the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences (SHASS) and as head of the Department of Political Science.
Throughout her distinguished career at MIT, Chancellor Nobles helped create a new theater building and the Linde music building, which is a state-of-the-art center for music research, innovation, and performance. She also championed the pioneering “MIT & Slavery” research class; secured new support for graduate students, postdocs, and professorships in SHASS; and launched several labs focused on digital humanities, music technology, election data and science, and climate action.
Chancellor Nobles’ teaching includes graduate courses in transitional justice, ethnic politics, and nationalism, as well as undergraduate courses in comparative politics, Latin American studies, ethnic conflict in world politics, and social movements in comparative perspective. Her international, comparative research focuses on restorative justice in light of ethnic and racial conflicts.
Chancellor Nobles graduated from Brown University with a degree in history and received her MA and PhD in political science from Yale University. She has held fellowships at Boston University’s Institute for Race and Social Division and Harvard University’s Radcliffe Center for Advanced Study. She has also served on the editorial boards of Polity, American Political Science Review, and Perspectives on Politics, and as a guest editor for a special issue of Nature.
Chancellor Nobles has also been involved in faculty governance at MIT and beyond, serving as associate chair of the MIT Faculty from 2007 to 2009, and vice president of the American Political Science Association.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS AND MUSICIANS
Acknowledgments and the full list of musicians are available on the acknowledgments page.
BROADCAST VIEWING
Indoor viewing will be available in select rooms across campus, including Buildings 1, 2, 3, and 4, as well as Rooms 6-120, 10-250, W20-202, 26-100, 45-230, 32-123, Kresge Auditorium, MIT Welcome Center, and Kendall/MIT Open Space.
For a complete list of indoor viewing locations, visit the indoor viewing locations page.
DIGITAL DIPLOMAS
All graduating students are eligible to receive a digital diploma at no cost. To get started, visit the Registrar's site, download the Blockcerts Wallet app, and add MIT as an issuer to ensure you'll receive your digital diploma as soon as it's available.
HISTORY AND SYMBOLISM
Learn about the history and symbolism behind MIT ceremonies—including academic regalia, the ceremonial mace, the shepherd's staff, and the MIT seal—on the History and Symbolism page.
LOST AND FOUND
Lost and found items will be available at the information tents and at MIT Police thereafter.
MAPS
Print copies of campus and shuttle maps are available at the information tents. You can also view them online:
• MIT campus map
• Commencement and MIT Tech shuttle routes map
A map of Killian Court for the Undergraduate Degree Ceremony is below.
PHOTOGRAPHS
GradImages will photograph graduates as they cross the stage and as they return to their seats. After the ceremony, you can visit their website to view and purchase prints, plaques, specialty gifts, and more.
There is no designated area from which guests may take photographs or video record during the ceremony.
SOCIAL MEDIA
Use #MIT2025 in your social media posts and tag us!
Instagram: @mit, @mitalumni, @mitcommencement
Facebook: MIT News, MIT Alumni Association
X: @MIT, @MITStudents, @MIT_alumni
Go to MIT’s social media hub to experience the day through MIT social media accounts.
WEBCAST, VIDEO, AND CAPTIONING
MIT Video Productions provides a live webcast of the Undergraduate Ceremony, with a recording available for on-demand viewing after the event.
Live StreamText captioning will be available for the Undergraduate Ceremony via personal mobile devices: bit.ly/streamtext-captioning
The Academic Procession at the Undergraduate Degree Ceremony is led by the Chair of the Faculty. The stage assembly—comprising MIT senior leaders, members of the MIT Faculty, the class marshals, and senior soloists—follows. The guests of honor—the graduating seniors—then march into Killian Court. Following the ceremony, the stage assembly recesses, while the graduates and guests adjourn.
A PDF of the OneMIT Ceremony program will be available Commencement week, as will the 2025 name book.
Map of Killian Court for Undergraduate Degree Ceremony
