Marquette’s 145th Commencement ceremonies will be held Saturday, May 9, at Fiserv Forum, located at 1111 Vel R. Phillips Ave., Milwaukee.
Following is the schedule of events for Commencement weekend:
Evening of Friday, May 8
- 5 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. — President’s Reception on Eckstein Common (east of the Alumni Memorial Union)
- If there is rain, the event will be moved to the AMU Monaghan Ballrooms. All graduates and their families are invited to attend.
Saturday, May 9
- 9 a.m. — Baccalaureate Mass at the Al McGuire Center
- 1 p.m. — Undergraduate Commencement ceremony at Fiserv Forum
- 5 p.m. — Graduate Commencement ceremony at Fiserv Forum
Guest ticketing process for undergraduate commencement: what you need to know
Guest tickets for undergraduate Commencement have begun to upload into students’ Marquette Gameday App for those who have RSVP’d and requested up to five guest tickets.
Students who have RSVP’d should check their Marquette Gameday App accounts to confirm receipt.
How to access / transfer tickets for undergraduate Commencement
- For entry into the 2026 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 and 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.
Opportunity to claim additional guest ticket
Eligible graduating students will have a first come, first served chance to claim one additional Undergraduate Commencement guest ticket starting the afternoon of Thursday, April 30. Students should look for an email from University Special Events, which will contain a link to the Marquette Commencement Ticket Portal.
Please note: There are not enough additional tickets available for every student to receive one. We kindly ask that you only participate if an extra ticket is truly needed.
What you need to know:
- Students will need to use their Marquette email to log into their Marquette Gameday App, which will be the same login used to claim their initial Commencement tickets.
- Only students who RSVP’d “yes” and have already claimed tickets will be eligible to participate.
- Students will only have one chance to claim up to one ticket. Once an additional ticket is claimed, the process cannot be repeated.
- The Commencement tickets claimed through this process will need to be transferred to guests the same way as the initial Commencement tickets. Ticket transferring will be open through the day of Commencement, Saturday, May 9.
- Only graduates are able to claim an additional ticket.
- Graduates DO NOT need a ticket to attend Commencement.
- All guests must have a digital ticket to enter Fiserv Forum for the 1 p.m., Saturday, May 9, Undergraduate Commencement Ceremony.
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, Doctor of Physical Therapy program and Master of Athletic Training 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 ticketing questions regarding your Marquette Gameday App, please contact the Marquette Ticket Office at 414-288-GOMU or athletics@marquette.edu.
