Commencement

East Carolina University – Spring 2025 Commencement Ceremony

For general questions about Commencement, send an email to commencement@ecu.edu.

The East Carolina University Spring 2025 Commencement Ceremony will be held May 9, 2025, at 10 a.m. inside Dowdy-Ficklen Stadium.

All ECU spring 2025 graduates, including those earning undergraduate, masters, doctoral, and professional degrees, needed to complete an RSVP form to participate in the university commencement ceremony.

In addition, ECU will host college recognition ceremonies in the afternoon and evening of May 9 and during the day on May 10 in various locations. Guest tickets are required and are limited per graduate based on venue size and graduate numbers. More information can be found below and on the Graduate FAQ page.

ECU alumnus and Greenville native to deliver spring commencement address

East Carolina University will welcome entrepreneur and alumnus John May ’93 as the keynote speaker for its spring commencement ceremony.

May is the founder and managing partner of CORE Industrial Partners, a private equity firm with approximately $2 billion in assets under management. Since its founding in 2017, CORE has become one of the fastest-growing firms in the industry, investing exclusively in lower middle-market manufacturing, industrial technology and industrial services businesses. The firm has offices in Chicago, Austin, Texas, and Cleveland.

Visit the Commencement Speaker page to learn more.

Message for ECU Sustainability Program about Confetti on campus!

Congratulations, Pirates! When you celebrate your achievements this year and take graduation pictures with you friends and family, remember confetti is litter. It is also harmful to wildlife and contributes to ocean plastic waste when it enters the storm drain and flows downstream.

Please help keep our beautiful, award-winning campus clean. Instead of using confetti, streamers, or balloons in your photos, we recommend using bubbles, flower petals, or the filters on your phone.

Learn more about campus sustainability.

Spring 2025 College Ceremony Schedule

Minges Coliseum

      • 1pm – Fine Arts and Communication
      • 4pm – Nursing
      • 7pm – Engineering and Technology

Main Campus Student Center Ballrooms

      • 1pm – Health and Human Performance
        • Interior Design and Merchandising, Social Work
      • 4pm – Health and Human Performance
        • Kinesiology and Recreation Sciences
      • 7pm – Health and Human Performance
        • Health Education and Promotion and Human Development and Family Sciences

Wright Auditorium

      • 1pm – Arts & Sciences
        • University Studies
      • 4pm – Arts & Sciences
        • International Studies, Political Science, Public Administration and Security Studies
      • 7pm – Dental Medicine

Hendrix Theater (inside the Mendenhall Building)

      • 3pm – Arts & Sciences
        • Economics and Quantitative Economics and Econometrics

Greenville Convention Center

      • 1pm – Brody School of Medicine

East Carolina Heart Institute

      • 4pm – Brody Sciences

Minges Coliseum

      • 9am – Business
        • Miller School of Entrepreneurship, Finance and Insurance, Management Information Systems, Marketing and Supply Chain Management
      • 12pm – Business
        • Accounting, School of Hospitality Leadership, Management, Thomas D. Arthur Graduate School of Business
      • 3pm – Education

Main Campus Student Center Ballrooms

      • 9am – Allied Health
        • Health Services and Information Management, Nutrition Science, Addiction and Rehabilitation Studies, Physician Assistant Studies
      • 12pm – Allied Health
        • Clinical Laboratory Science, Communication Sciences and Disorders, Occupational Therapy, Physical Therapy
      • 3pm – Arts & Sciences
        • Biochemistry (Biology concentration); Biology; Interdisciplinary Doctoral Program in Biology, Biomedicine and Chemistry (Biology concentration); and Molecular Biology and Biotechnology

Wright Auditorium

      • 9am – Arts & Sciences
        • Health Psychology, Neuroscience Studies and Psychology
      • 12pm – Arts & Sciences
        • Criminal Justice
      • 3pm – Arts & Sciences
        • English, Professional Writing and Information Design, Rhetoric, Writing and Professional Communication

Hendrix Theater (inside the Mendenhall Building)

      • 9am – Arts & Sciences
        • Applied Atmospheric Science; Community and Regional Planning; Environmental Studies: Geography; Geographic Information Science and Technology; Geology; and Planning and Development
      • 11am – Arts & Sciences
        • Biochemistry (Chemistry concentration); Biomedical Physics; Chemistry; Interdisciplinary Doctoral Program in Biology, Biomedicine and Chemistry (Chemistry concentration); Mathematics; and Physics
      • 1pm – Arts & Sciences
        • Applied Sociology; Anthropology; and Sociology
      • 3pm – Arts & Sciences
        • African and African American Studies; Foreign Languages and Literatures; Hispanic Studies; History; Maritime Studies; Philosophy; and Religious Studies

If you have a college specific question, please click the link below to reach that college’s representative.

 

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