Commencement

Note: We will not have a date for the Rausser College Spring 2025 Commecement until ~January 2025. The date will be posted here on this website as soon as it has been confirmed.   The full campus graduation ceremony will be happening on Saturday, May 17th, 2025.  Students are eligible to participate in either or both ceremonies.

The RCNR Commencement ceremony will include graduate and undergraduate students from the following departments: Agricultural & Resource Economics, Environmental Science, Policy & Management, Nutritional Sciences & Toxciology, 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
• Nutrition & Metabolic Biology
• 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 will host a separate, intimate ceremony for their students.  It is by invitation only.  Please reach out to ergdesk@berkeley.edu if you would like to attend or want more information.

All Rausser students who graduated or will graduate in the following semesters are invited to participate:

• Summer 2024
• Fall 2024
• Spring 2025
• Summer 2025
• Fall 2025

Students who participated in the Spring 2024 ceremony are not eligible to participate in the Spring 2025 ceremony.

Additional ceremony information can be found at the links below:

Ticketing Information
Student Information
Guest Information

Please direct any questions to commencement.rcnr@berkeley.edu. 

Website Update: 9/26/2024