Welcome prospective graduates! We are excited that you’ve reached this point in your collegiate career. Applying for graduation is one of the final steps before your graduation check-out can begin. We encourage you to work closely with your advisor to ensure that all your degree requirements have been met. Please follow the instructions below to complete your online graduation application.

NOTE: Your submission of an official application to graduate is REQUIRED for you to be eligible for degree conferral.

The application opens each semester around the time classes start. The application closes the evening of the deadline to apply for graduation. The deadline to apply is published in the Academic Calendar for each semester under the General Dates banner.

If you are completing all your requirements, you can submit a graduation application through your BOSS account. NOTE: You should not apply to graduate in a semester that you will not be finished with requirements when grades post for that term.

To apply for graduation:

  1. Login to your BOSS Account
  2. Select the “Student Services” tab.
  3. Click on “Graduation Applications.”
  4. Select Curriculum Term. (NOTE: This is not the graduation term, but your active major or program term.)
  5. Choose the curriculum (major or program) in which you want to apply to graduate. If the curriculum does not match exactly what you are seeking, STOP and work with your advisor on making curriculum adjustments. Then go back into the graduation application and if the curriculum matches, continue.
  6. Select Graduation Date: If you are applying for fall graduation, there will be no graduation term to select. The fall application will be the only item listed, while that application is active, (August-October). When both the spring and summer graduation applications are available, you will need to select the term you want to apply to graduate in, from the drop-down menu option.
  7. (NOTE: if you initially apply for spring graduation and later determine you need to apply for summer graduation, you must contact the Office of Records and Registration. The spring application MUST be de-activated before a summer application can be submitted.)
  8. Continue to review and update information until you can submit the application.
  9. NOTE: The application will ask if you are planning on attending the ceremony. Even if you list that you will be attending the ceremony, you still need to keep watch in your UA Little Rock (@ualr.edu) email inbox for any updates or additional RSVP requirements that may be sent out.