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Graduation

Petition to Graduate

Master’s and graduate certificate students must petition to graduate. Students who are not earning a degree or graduate certificate (e.g., non-matriculating students taking bridge courses) do not petition.

Students can petition at any time before the petition to graduate deadline for the graduation (last) semester. You may use your Plan of Study to determine your anticipated graduation semester.  Please visit the Graduation website to determine these deadlines.  Dates and deadlines for the online programs do not always coincide with those of the main-campus programs.

How to Petition to Graduate

Run a Degree Evaluation (CAPP) report - This report is for the graduation office. You can review your CAPP report and run this report at any time. This report is for your records and does not require submission.

  1. Go to https://www.fit.edu/students/
  2. Click on PAWS
  3. Login with your TRACKS Username and Password
  4. Click Student Profile
  5. Click Degree Evaluation (CAPP)
  6. Select the Current Term
  7. Click Generate New Evaluation
  8. Click Generate Request
  9. Detail Requirements (Enhanced Version) should already be selected
  10. Click Submit

Complete a petition to graduate

  1. Go to https://www.fit.edu/students/
  2. Click on PAWS
  3. Login with your TRACKS Username and Password
  4. Click Student Profile
  5. Click Petition to Graduate
  6. Select a term (Select any term available, it is not the graduation term. You will be asked to select a graduation term later in the process.)
  7. Click Submit (follow the prompts)
  8. After you complete the petition, you can click View Petition to Graduate.

View/check your petition to graduate

  1. Go to https://www.fit.edu/students/
  2. Click on PAWS
  3. Login with your TRACKS Username and Password
  4. Click Student Profile
  5. In the white student information panel, click the Active (1) link
    • Graduation Applications:  Active(1)
  6. View Petition to Graduate
Commencement Ceremonies

NOTE: If you submit a petition to graduate and need to change it for any reason, email graduation@fit.edu and request to deactivate your current petition to graduate. Once it has been deactivated, you will be able to re-petition in PAWS for the new graduation semester.

Commencement Ceremonies

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The commencement ceremony celebrates students receiving their degrees. M.A. students are invited to participate in the commencement ceremony, though it is not required.

Only students receiving degrees participate in commencement ceremonies.  Certificate students and non-matriculating students taking bridge courses do not take part.

Students who will graduate in a Summer semester will have their degree conferred at the end of the summer semester but may choose to attend the Spring graduation ceremony in May OR Fall graduation ceremony in December. Graduation ceremonies are held based on on-campus degree program end dates.

Regalia

M.A. students may visit the Graduation web page and select their Fall/Spring Commencement semester to find order information for Graduation Regalia. ABA students wear regalia for the College of Psychology and Liberal Arts.

Contact the Graduation office at graduation@fit.edu for any questions regarding petitioning to graduate, commencement ceremonies or regalia.

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