Fall 2025
There is no Rausser College Commencement Ceremony for the Fall 2025 semester. For information about the Winter 2025 campus commencement visit the UC Berkeley Commencement webpage.
Spring 2026
The Rausser College of Natural Resources Commencement will take place on Sunday, May 17th, at 7pm at the Hearst Greek Theatre.
The spring 2026 all-campus commencement ceremony at California Memorial Stadium will take place on Saturday, May 16th at 10:30am. Students are eligible to participate in either or both ceremonies. Students will need to register and purchase tickets for each event separately. This website has information pertaining specifically for the Rausser College ceremony. We do not have details related to the all-campus ceremony. Please see their website for more information.
More information pertaining to tickets, participant registration, event details, and more will be available in January 2026. Please check the Rausser College Commencement website for those details in January.
The RCNR Commencement ceremony will include graduate and undergraduate students from the following departments: Agricultural & Resource Economics, Environmental Science, Policy & Management, Metabolic Biology & Nutrition (formerly Nutritional Sciences & Toxicology), and Plant & Microbial Biology.
Undergraduate majors include:
- Conservation & Resource Studies
- Ecosystem Management & Forestry
- Environmental Economics & Policy
- Environmental Sciences
- Genetics & Plant Biology
- Microbial Biology
- Molecular Environmental Biology
- Nutritional Sciences - Dietetics
- Nutritional Sciences - Physiology & Metabolism
- Nutritional Sciences - Toxicology
- Society & Environment
Graduate programs include:
- Agricultural & Resource Economics, PhD
- Comparative Biochemistry, PhD
- Endocrinology, PhD
- Environmental Science, Policy & Management, PhD
- Metabolic Biology, PhD
- Microbiology, PhD
- Nutritional Sciences & Dietetics, MNSD
- Plant Biology, PhD
- Forestry, MF
- Rangeland & Wildlife Management, MS
The Energy & Resource Group and the Masters in Climate Solutions will host separate, intimate ceremonies for their students. It is by invitation only.
All Rausser students who graduated or will graduate in the following semesters are invited to participate:
- Summer 2025
- Fall 2025
- Spring 2026
- Summer 2026
- Fall 2026
Students who participated in the Spring 2025 ceremony are not eligible to participate in the Spring 2026 ceremony.
Accommodation Requests
Guests or participants needing accessibility accommodations must fill out the Accommodation Request form by Friday, May 1, 2026. Service animals are permitted into the venue. To contact the RCNR Commencement Disability Access Coordinator, please email commencement.rcnr@berkeley.edu.