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Say I start my term in July and I finish the end of September. The graduation ceremony is in December. Does that mean I am officially a college graduate in December or is that just ceremony purposes. Can I apply to jobs or wgu master programs and say I have a bachelor's degree? How does it work to finish a degree months before graduation. Any help would be appreciated. This is still fairly new to me as my community college graduation is the day after grades are though so I am new to this whole gap between term date and graduation.
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Your degree doesn't officially conferred until December even if your courses are done beforehand. So you aren't technically a college graduate until December.
You can look at prior threads but WGU is very strict and that can't start their masters until the degree is conferred so you wouldn't be able to start WGU masters until January 1st. Idk about other grad schools but WGU for sure works that way.
But in the meantime, once your capstone is done you could apply to WGU, choose a program and get everything set up and ready to go for January 1st so you wouldn't waste time.
As far as employment, I don't know much. I saw at least one post on this fourm where the jobs wouldn't hire them until the degree was conferred so if that was the case it would be December before you could start work. But even if that were true, you could still be applying beforehand and get a job lined up before December. But I honestly don't know beyond that. I doubt a lot of jobs you would probably take that approach especially if the degree is all done. I feel like employment wouldn't be any issue but idk.
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(05-07-2020, 08:13 PM)natshar Wrote: Your degree doesn't officially conferred until December even if your courses are done beforehand. So you aren't technically a college graduate until December.
You can look at prior threads but WGU is very strict and that can't start their masters until the degree is conferred so you wouldn't be able to start WGU masters until January 1st. Idk about other grad schools but WGU for sure works that way.
But in the meantime, once your capstone is done you could apply to WGU, choose a program and get everything set up and ready to go for January 1st so you wouldn't waste time.
As far as employment, I don't know much. I saw at least one post on this fourm where the jobs wouldn't hire them until the degree was conferred so if that was the case it would be December before you could start work. But even if that were true, you could still be applying beforehand and get a job lined up before December. But I honestly don't know beyond that. I doubt a lot of jobs you would probably take that approach especially if the degree is all done. I feel like employment wouldn't be any issue but idk.
Gotcha. Thanks another for all the help.
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(05-07-2020, 07:00 PM)maxxor6868 Wrote: Say I start my term in July and I finish the end of September. The graduation ceremony is in December. Does that mean I am officially a college graduate in December or is that just ceremony purposes. Can I apply to jobs or wgu master programs and say I have a bachelor's degree? How does it work to finish a degree months before graduation. Any help would be appreciated. This is still fairly new to me as my community college graduation is the day after grades are though so I am new to this whole gap between term date and graduation.
Dec 14-16, degree conferred.
note: Starting Jan. 1 at WGU will be really, really difficult because WGU wants two FULL weeks prior to the start for origination, plus it can take a week for WGU to evaluate the new TESU degree. Most likely, start date at WGU. Feb. 1.
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