How to apply to graduate

You are eligible to graduate when you have completed all of the requirements for your program. Log into UM Achieve to check you progress.

Consult with your faculty's academic advisor before graduation to ensure you are eligible to graduate. 

UM Achieve      Contact an Advisor

Ensure that you have claimed your UM email address. All graduation and convocation information will come to your UM email address.

Undergraduate students

Must declare their graduation on Aurora. If your desired graduation term is not listed on Aurora or you have missed the deadline, contact your advisor as soon as possible. Undergraduate students can declare their graduation by following these steps:

1. Log in to Aurora
2. Select Enrolment & Academic Records
3. Select Declarations
4. Select Declare Graduation Date
5. Enter your Graduation date from the drop-down menu
    

Login to Aurora

Graduate students 

Graduate students (diploma, master and Ph.D. programs) are not able to declare their intent to graduate through Aurora. The faculty of graduate studies will determine when students have completed their requirements.
 

Contact a Graduate Studies Advisor

Before your graduation, you will need to ensure you have no outstanding fees or fines with the university.

You will need to confirm that you have nothing outstanding, these may include:

• Library fines
• Tuition fee balances
• Parking tickets

Outstanding fees will cause a hold to be placed on your account.

Holds and Convocation

If your account is on hold for any reason you can still graduate and participate in convocation.

If the ceremony is in person, the parchment folder you will be given at the ceremony will contain a congratulatory note and a reminder to pay your account. 

If the ceremony is virtual, your degree will not be sent until you have settled the outstanding balances on your account.

You can pick up your parchment or it will be mailed to you when your account is settled in full, and no holds exist on your account.
 

More Information on Hold Status

If you have a letter of permission to take courses at another institution you must submit a transcript from that institution to the Registrar's Office.

In order to graduate, please ensure that your transcript is received by the Registrars Office no later than:

• May 15 -  for spring graduation.
• Sep. 15 - for fall graduation.
• Jan. 15 -  for February graduation.
   

More Information on Letter of permission

LOP Transcripts are to be sent to:

Once you have applied to graduate, the Registrar’s Office will send information to your Myumanitoba email account six to eight weeks before your graduation. You will be asked to verify that your full legal name in Aurora is up to date. 

The name on file in Aurora is the name that will appear on your parchment.

Legal Name changes

If you have legally changed your name since you first applied to university, you must submit a request for a change of legal name to the Registrar’s Office.

1. Login to your Aurora account
2. Select 'Personal Information'
3. Select 'Name Change'
4. From here, follow the directions on the screen. You will be required to upload documentation as a part of your request.

Preferred names will not influence your legal name appearing in your Degree.

Change of Name Information