花季视频

Skip to main content

Tickets

Information 

To enter Commencement or School Convocations, all guests must have an e-ticket displayed on a device or a hard copy printed ticket. Graduates DO NOT need a ticket for themselves, only tickets for their guests.   

Please note, children 3 and under who will sit in a caregiver’s lap do not need tickets; every one of your guests who will use a seat needs a ticket. 

Tickets for Ceremonies

Please only take the number of tickets that you need for your guests and donate back tickets that your guests are not going to use.

Dates and How to Order

The ticket website will open in late February 2025. 

Log-in instructions for the NU Graduation ticket website are sent to eligible students via email. If you have not received instructions when the ticketing website opens, please send an email to the Graduation Office (graduation@northwestern.edu) noting your school name. 

Inside the ticketing system you will be able to order tickets for all of your eligible ceremonies. 

Only eligible students are able to order tickets. Please review the details below about each ceremony before ordering your tickets.  

Self-Order Ticketing

Ceremony
Self-order

Open 2/27 - 5/30

Waitlist

Issued 4/29 - 5/30

Bienen Up to 8 as needed*
Family Institute Up to 8 as needed*
MEAS - Master's/PhD Up to 8 as needed*
MEAS - Undergraduate Up to 8 as needed*
Medill Up to 8 as needed*
SOC Up to 8 as needed*
SESP Up to 8 as needed*
SPS Up to 8 as needed*
TGS Up to 8 as needed*
Notes

*Waitlist tickets are directly tied to capacity, and it is not guaranteed that you will receive the requested waitlist tickets.

Ticketing in Rounds

Ceremony
Ticketing Order Rounds
Waitlist
 

Round 1
Open 2/27 - 3/25

Round 2
Open 3/26 - 4/28

Waitlist
Open 4/29 - 5/30

Kellogg Up to 4 Up to 2 additional Up to 2 additional*
Weinberg Up to 4 Up to 2 additional Up to 2 additional*
Commencement Up to 4 Up to 2 additional Up to 2 additional*
Notes

Must be claimed during this time period; any unclaimed tickets are rolled to future rounds.

Must be claimed during this time period; any unclaimed tickets are rolled to waitlist

*Waitlist tickets are not guaranteed and will be fulfilled on a rolling basis as tickets become available.

Waitlist Tickets 

You may request additional tickets through the Waitlist Tickets feature. The pool of waitlist tickets is made up of tickets not claimed during the initial ordering period or returned by graduates whose guests can no longer attend. Waitlist tickets are directly tied to capacity, and it is not guaranteed that you will receive the requested waitlist tickets. 

Once you receive notification that you have been awarded waitlist tickets, you have 72 hours to log into your ticket account and complete your cart to accept the tickets. Tickets not claimed within 72 hours will be returned to the waitlist pool to be distributed to another student. 

Instructions on how to accept your waitlist tickets can be found here.

How to Transfer Tickets to Your Guests

tickettransfer2024.png

Accessibility Accommodations

Requesting seating for a guest who uses a wheelchair 

There will be a limited number of wheelchair tickets available for each ceremony. The exact number will be determined by the venue’s wheelchair seating capacity. When ordering tickets, the system will prompt you to enter how many guests in your party will be in a wheelchair. When the party enters the venue, one guest from the party will be escorted to the wheelchair section as a companion for the person in a wheelchair while the rest of the part sits in the general admission seats. Because these spaces are limited and in high demand, we are not able to seat entire parties together in the wheelchair section. 

Requesting other accessibility accommodations 

花季视频 University is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for all events and programs. Accommodations such as sign language interpreters, accessible seating, and presentation materials in alternate formats may be provided upon request. Please contact the Graduation Office at graduation@northwestern.edu or 847-491-3600 by June 1, 2025. Every reasonable effort will be made to implement accommodations in an effective and timely manner.

Questions

Please contact the Graduation Office for any questions you may have.