Resources

Herff Jones works alongside the CSUN Campus Store to provide graduates with Caps and Gowns (sometimes referred to as 'Graduation Regalia').  

Graduates will have the opportunity to purchase their cap and gown during GradFest. For more details visit our GradFest Page.

Click here for Campus Store hours.

Colleges & Departments Tassel Colors

Mike Curb College of Arts, Media, & Communication Art

Art • Cinema & Television Arts • Communication Studies • Journalism • Music • Music Industry Administration • Theatre 
WHITE/RED

David Nazarian College of Business & Economics 

Accounting & Information Systems • Business Administration •Business Law • Economics • Finance • Financial Planning & Insurance • Honors in Business • Management • Marketing • Systems & Operations Management • Taxation
BEIGE

Michael D. Eisner College of Education

Deaf Studies • Educational Leadership & Policy Studies • Educational Psychology and Counseling • Elementary Education • Secondary Education • Special Education 
LIGHT BLUE

College of Engineering & Computer Science 

Civil Engineering & Construction Management • Computer Science • Electrical & Computer Engineering • Engineering Management • Mechanical Engineering • Manufacturing Systems • Engineering & Managment 
ORANGE

College of Health & Human Development

Child & Adolescent Development • Communication Disor ders & Sciences • Environmental & Occupational Health • Family & Consumer Sciences • Health Sciences • Kinesiology •Nursing • Physical Therapy • Public Health • Recreation & Toursim Management
FOREST GREEN

College of Humanities 

American Indian Studies • Asian American Studies • Central American Studies • Chicana & Chicano Studies • English • Gender & Women’s Studies •  Humanities Interdisciplinary • Liberal Studies • Linguistics • Modern & Classical Languages & Literatures • Jewish Studies • Philosophy • Religious Studies 
DARK BLUE

College of Science & Mathematics

Biology • Chemistry & Biochemistry • Geological Sciences • Mathematics • Physics & Astronomy 
GOLD

College of Social & Behavioral Sciences 

Africana Studies • Anthropology • Criminology & Justice Studies • Geography & Environmental Studies • History •Political Studies • Psychology • Public Administration • Public Sector Management • Social Work • Sociology • Urban Studies & Planning
WHITE

Graduation means that you have completed all degree requirements and have been awarded the degree. Earning a degree is not the same as attending the Commencement ceremony. If you apply to graduate in spring or summer, you are a degree “candidate” who may not yet have completed all degree requirements.

The Office of Undergraduate Degree Services evaluates your academic record to determine whether or not you are meeting all bachelor’s degree requirements and assist you with completing them.

IMPORTANT NOTE: To participate in the Commencement ceremony and have your name published in the program, you must apply to graduate before the deadline published in the Graduation Calendar.

Commencement is held once a year at the end of the spring semester to honor students who have already been awarded degrees in the preceding fall semester as well as degree candidates who have applied for graduation in the spring or summer. Example: Only students who graduated in Fall 2024 and candidates for Spring 2025 and Summer 2025 graduation are eligible to participate in Commencement 2025.

Graduates who missed their ceremony, or had to leave early, and were unable to receive distributed materials can pick them up in a variety of locations (while supplies last) after the ceremonies have concluded. These items will be available while supplies last. 

  • DIPLOMA COVER: These can be picked up at the Office of Student Development & Transitional Programs and the Office of Undergraduate Degree Services.
  • COMMENCEMENT PROGRAM BOOK: These can be picked up at the Office of Student Development & Transitional Programs.
  • HONORS CONVOCATION MEDALLION: These can be picked up at the Office of Student Development & Transitional Programs and the CSUN Campus Store.

The Office of Student Development is located in the University Student Union (USU Room 113SW) directly across (south) from “The Freudian Sip".

More information will be available in the Spring 2025 semester. 

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