| graduation | the successful completion of a program of study |
groundbreaking
groundbreaking ceremony | the ceremonial breaking of the ground to formally begin a construction project |
extension
extension service
university extension | an educational opportunity provided by colleges and universities to people who are not enrolled as regular students |
gradation
graduation | the act of arranging in grades |
| ceremony | any activity that is performed in an especially solemn elaborate or formal way, the ceremony of smelling the cork and tasting the wine, he makes a ceremony of addressing his golf ball, he disposed of it without ceremony |
tea ceremony
chanoyu | an ancient ritual for preparing and serving and drinking tea |
| ceremony | the proper or conventional behavior on some solemn occasion, an inaugural ceremony |
religious ceremony
religious ritual | a ceremony having religious meaning |
| military ceremony | a military custom performed in observance of some event or anniversary |
marriage
wedding
marriage ceremony | the act of marrying, the nuptial ceremony, their marriage was conducted in the chapel |
Brown University
Brown | a university in Rhode Island |
Cambridge University
Cambridge | a university in England |
| Carnegie Mellon University | an engineering university in Pittsburgh |
| city university | an urban university in a large city |
Columbia University
Columbia | a university in New York City |
| Cornell University | a university in Ithaca, New York |
| Duke University | a university in Durham, North Carolina |
Harvard University
Harvard | a university in Massachusetts |
| Ohio State University | a university in Columbus, Ohio |
Oxford University
Oxford | a university in England |
Paris University
University of Paris
Sorbonne | a university in Paris, intellectual center of France |
Princeton University
Princeton | a university in New Jersey |
| redbrick university | (British informal) a provincial British university of relatively recent founding, distinguished from Oxford University and Cambridge University |
Stanford University
Stanford | a university in California |
| university | establishment where a seat of higher learning is housed, including administrative and living quarters as well as facilities for research and teaching |
| University of California at Berkeley | a university in Berkeley, California |
| University of Chicago | a university in Chicago, Illinois |
| University of Michigan | a university in Ann Arbor, Michigan |
| University of Nebraska | a university in Lincoln, Nebraska |
| University of North Carolina | a university in Chapel Hill, North Carolina |
University of Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania
Penn | a university in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
| University of Pittsburgh | a university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania |
University of Sussex
Sussex University | a red-brick university in Brighton, England |
| University of Texas | a university in Austin, Texas |
| University of Vermont | a university in Burlington, Vermont |
| University of Washington | a university in Seattle, Washington |
| University of West Virginia | a university in Morgantown, West Virginia |
| University of Wisconsin | a university in Madison, Wisconsin |
Yale University
Yale | a university in Connecticut |
| graduation | a line (as on a vessel or ruler) that marks a measurement, the ruler had graduations per inch |
ceremony
ceremonial
ceremonial occasion
observance | a formal event performed on a special occasion, a ceremony commemorating Pearl Harbor |
wedding
wedding ceremony
nuptials
hymeneals | the social event at which the ceremony of marriage is performed |
| military ceremony | a formal ceremony performed by military personnel |
commencement commencement exercise
commencement ceremony
graduation graduation exercise | an academic exercise in which diplomas are conferred |
| university | the body of faculty and students at a university |
| university | a large and diverse institution of higher learning created to educate for life and for a profession and to grant degrees |
| Open University | a British university that is open to people without formal academic qualifications and where teaching is by correspondence or broadcasting or summer school |
college student
university student | a student enrolled in a college or university |
master of ceremonies
emcee
host | a person who acts as host at formal occasions (makes an introductory speech and introduces other speakers) |