Friday, July 18th, 2025

Yes. All guests are required to have a ticket for the ceremony, including children that require a seat. Digital tickets will be sent via email, 4 guests per graduate.

Yes, if you have previously requested special seating. If you have already completed the graduation ceremony survey and did not request special seating, please email studentsvcs@maufl.edu . The last day to provide any changes will be July 14th, 2025 .

Yes. Family members may take photos from their seats. For safety reasons, no one other than MAU staff will be allowed in the aisles during the ceremony. Please make sure you communicate this information to your family and friends to avoid disappointments.

The university will provide a professional photographer for the complete graduation ceremony, if you're interested in buying Graduate Portraits, the photographer will be taking photos on Friday, July 18th, 2025, both before and after the ceremony. Additionally, the photographer is available to take pictures on campus by appointment only. For more information, please contact student services.

Please contact studentsvcs@maufl.edu to schedule your photography appointment. We will provide the cap and gown for the pictures.

No. Once you arrive to line up, you will be given details on what you will be asked to do.

Usually the ceremony lasts two (2) hours.

No. All participants are expected to be at the ceremony for its duration.

No reception after the ceremony.

Yes. All participants are required to wear a cap and gown.

Click here to order your cap and gown. Search for Millennia Atlantic University. Select your Degree Type. Master’s Students you must ensure that your order the correct area of study. Deadline to order: July 12th, 2025.

Use the following link to watch how to wear the cap and gown: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMln65dLUrU

No. Different cap and gowns will not be acceptable. However if you have one from a recent MAU commencement ceremony, then you may use the same one.

All participants (graduates) must arrive by 10:30 AM. at the Grand Doral I dressed in graduation attire to check in, graduates will be escorted to the staging area. The graduation class picture will be at 11:15 AM.

At 10:55 AM. all graduates will be lined up ready to enter the graduation venue for the start of graduation.

The Acacia Ballroom will open the doors at 10:40 AM. The ceremony begins at 11:00 AM

No. We ask that all students give personal belongings to family or friends attending the ceremony or leave them at home.

Yes. We ask that faculty and graduates participating in the graduation ceremony bring their MAU ID to sign in.

Undergraduates should sign in at the Magnolia room and graduates in the Acacia room. Then, all graduates will be lined up and will be seated in the front rows in the reception. Faculty should sign in at the Acacia Ballroom, then all faculty members will be lined up and seated in the reception.

Your diploma and free official transcript will be conferred once your academic requirements and financial obligations are satisfied. We encourage you to pick it up on campus before graduation , contact Student Services at 786-331-1000 Ext #203 or studentsvcs@maufl.edu .

Or you can pick it up after the commencement ceremony at the Acacia Room.