Commencement 2019
Full coverage of Northeastern University’s 117th Commencement exercises and the 2019 graduates
Highlights
‘Now the world belongs to you’
At Northeastern’s 117th Commencement, President Joseph E. Aoun urged graduates to use their most human qualities in order to succeed in a world that is… Read more
The best photos from Commenement
The graduates, the speakers, the joy, the beach ball, and the flags. Northeastern photographers documented all the pomp and circumstance of the big day at…Read more
Tara Westover urges graduates to embrace their ‘un-Instagrammable’ selves
The Commencement address by the author of the bestselling memoir, Educated, cautioned Northeastern graduates against defining themselves by the happy, perfect images they post online. Read more
It took Northeastern University President Joseph E. Aoun a superhuman effort to get to Commencement
Northeastern President Joseph E. Aoun showed off some mad acrobatic skills in getting to TD Garden just in time to give his 2019 Commencement Speech. Watch
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Author tells Northeastern grads to celebrate their ‘un-Instagramable selves’
Best-selling author Tara Westover on Friday urged Northeastern University’s Class of 2019 to celebrate the sides of themselves they don’t share on social media — the parts of them that are imperfect. Go
‘We can never stop reinventing ourselves’
The Class of 2019 graduates into a world continuously being reshaped by rapidly advancing technology. And with the skills, knowledge, and agility they have acquired through their experiences at Northeastern, they are well prepared to evolve along with it, President Joseph E. Aoun told students, families, and friends assembled at TD Garden on Friday. Read more
So happy you could just dance
With another academic year finally in the books and Commencement upon us, we’re taking a look at the most popular songs on Spotify over the last two semesters! Read more
Commencement 2019 in photos
Speakers
Tara Westover
Author / Honorary degree recipient
Tara Westover, inspiring author of the best-selling memoir, Educated, will deliver Northeastern’s 2019 Commencement address. Westover’s best-selling memoir, Educated, explains her resilient response to the isolated and dysfunctional world in which she was raised, at the foot of a mountain in rural Idaho, working in a junkyard for a father who kept his seven children… Read more
Student Speaker: Rebecca Leeper
Computer Engineering
Rebecca Leeper will be the student speaker at Northeastern’s 2019 Commencement at TD Garden on Friday. It will be a poignant, turning-of-the-page moment for her and her fellow graduates. Read more
Additional Honorary Degree Recipients
Beth Stevens, PhD
Associate Professor of Neurology
Maj. Gen. Cedric Wins
Commanding General
Amin Khoury
Chairman, CEO & President, KLX Energy Services Holdings, Inc.
Eduardo J. Padrón
President of Miami Dade College
NORTHEASTERN ANNOUNCES 2019 HONORARY DEGREE RECIPIENTS
President Joseph E. Aoun will confer honorary doctorates upon a group of influential leaders and figures at Northeastern’s undergraduate Commencement ceremony. Amin J. Khoury, Tara Westover, Major General Cedric T. Wins, Eduardo J. Padrón, and Beth Stevens will receive the honorary degrees. Read more
Arrival Information
Undergraduate
MAY 3 – 10:30 AM (GRADUATES 7:30 AM) – TD GARDEN
Undergraduate degree candidates must report to TD Garden by 7:30 a.m. on Friday. Graduating students should use the Legends Way entrance, and should not enter TD Garden through the arena’s main entrance. Legends Way is located on the east side of TD Garden (the side closest to the Zakim Bridge). Signs and staff will direct students to their entrance.
Graduate
College of Social Sciences and Humanities
APRIL 29 – 10:00 AM – CABOT CAGE
Khoury College of Computer and Information Science
APRIL 29 – 2:30 PM – MATTHEWS ARENA
College of Engineering
APRIL 30 – 10:30 AM and 3:30 PM – MATTHEWS ARENA
PhD Hooding
MAY 1 – 11:00 AM – CABOT CAGE
College of Science
MAY 1 – 4:30 PM – CABOT CAGE
College of Arts, Media and Design
MAY 2 – 3:30 PM – MATTHEWS ARENA
Bouvé College of Health Sciences
MAY 3 – 3:30 PM – MATTHEWS ARENA
