Date for Commencement ceremonies will be Saturday, May 10 

What you need to know about the undergraduate Commencement ticketing process

Marquette’s 144th Commencement ceremony will be held Saturday, May 10, at Fiserv Forum, located at 1111 Vel R. Phillips Ave., Milwaukee. Marquette would like to thank our graduates and their families for their patience and understanding as we awaited the Milwaukee Bucks’ playoff schedule.  

Following is the schedule of events for Commencement 2025 weekend:  

Friday, May 9 

5 p.m. — President’s Reception, hosted by President Kimo Ah Yun and the Marquette University Jesuit Community, at Ray and Kay Eckstein Common (green space east of the Alumni Memorial Union)  
Rain site: Alumni Memorial Union, third floor, Monaghan Ballrooms  

(all graduates and their families are invited to attend) 

Saturday, May 10   

9 a.m. — Baccalaureate Mass at the Al McGuire Center  (all graduates and their families are invited to attend) Wear graduation gowns and line up by 8:40 a.m. to process in as the Class of 2025.

1 p.m. — Undergraduate Commencement ceremony at Fiserv Forum   

5 p.m. — Graduate Commencement ceremony at Fiserv Forum   

All graduating Marquette students, their families, faculty and staff are welcome to attend Friday’s reception celebrating the Class of 2025 and the Baccalaureate Mass on Saturday morning.  

The undergraduate and graduate Commencement ceremonies will also be livestreamed — visit the Commencement website for a link to the livestream. 

Guest ticketing process for undergraduate commencement: what you need to know  

Guest tickets for undergraduate Commencement will upload on Thursday, May 1, to students’ Marquette Gameday App for those who have RSVP’d and requested up to six guest tickets. 

Students who have RSVP’d should check their Marquette Gameday App accounts on May 1 to confirm receipt.  

How to access / transfer tickets for undergraduate commencement  

  • For entry into the 2025 undergraduate Commencement ceremony, guests will need to provide a digital ticket. For easy access to digital tickets, direct guests to download the Ticketmaster app.  
  • For more information on how to utilize digital ticketing, please reference this Marquette Digital Ticketing video.  
  • Reminder: please transfer tickets to your guests prior to the day of Commencement. Once a ticket is transferred, the guest is the valid ticketholder.  
    • For details on transferring tickets, please see further instructions using this link to Ticketmaster.   
    • For details on accepting transferred tickets, please see further instructions using this link to Ticketmaster.  
  • Fiserv Forum does not accept tickets printed in PDF format. All ticket holders arriving with a PDF ticket will be asked to use their digital ticket to gain entry. 

There will be no ticketing requirement nor a limit on guests for the Graduate School, Graduate School of Management and Health Sciences professional ceremony because of the sizes of those classes.   

In keeping with tradition, the School of Dentistry, Law School and Doctor of Physical Therapy program will hold separate ceremonies and will not be part of the Fiserv Forum ceremonies. Ceremonies for the Doctor of Occupational Therapy and Master of Physician Assistant Studies programs will be held in August. There will be no other college-specific ceremonies.    

All Commencement-related information, including the ticketing process, is available on the Commencement website.   

For any questions or issues accessing your My Marquette Gameday Account, please contact the Marquette Ticket Office at 414-288-GOMU or athletics@marquette.edu.