This year, OU altered its commencements to combine colleges and announced the Party at the Palace as this year's universitywide celebratory event.
The Party at the Palace will be held at 7 p.m. Friday at the Gaylord Family-Oklahoma Memorial Stadium. The event will include games, food, music, a class of 2024 group photo and the OU campus’s first ever drone show.
This year, colleges will have their graduations separated into 12 commencement ceremonies. At the ceremonies, students will be recognized and walk across the stage to receive their diplomas. The spokesperson wrote doctoral students will be recognized and hooded by their faculty mentors.
Party at the Palace
7 p.m., May 3, Oklahoma Memorial Stadium.
OU-Tulsa
7 p.m., May 7, Donald W. Reynolds Center at the University of Tulsa.
College of Dentistry - Doctor of Dental Surgery, Dental Hygiene
10 a.m., May 9, Lloyd Noble Center.
Fran and Earl Ziegler College of Nursing
2 p.m., May 9, Lloyd Noble Center.
College of Allied Health, Hudson College of Public Health and Health Sciences Center Graduate College
2:30 p.m., May 10, Lloyd Noble Center.
Jeannine Rainbolt College of Education, Christopher C. Gibbs College of Architecture, Gaylord College of Journalism and Mass Communication and David L. Boren College of International Studies
7 p.m., May 10, Lloyd Noble Center.
Dodge Family College of Arts and Sciences - Humanities and Natural Sciences, Weitzenhoffer Family College of Fine Arts and College of Professional and Continuing Studies
9 a.m., May 11, Lloyd Noble Center.
Dodge Family College of Arts and Sciences - Professional Programs and Social Sciences
12:30 p.m., May 11, Lloyd Noble Center.
Michael F. Price College of Business
4 p.m., May 11, Lloyd Noble Center.
Gallogly College of Engineering, College of Atmospheric and Geographic Sciences and Mewbourne College of Earth and Energy
7:30 p.m., May 11, Lloyd Noble Center.
College of Law - Juris Doctorate Ceremony, Master of Legal Studies Ceremony, Master of Laws
2 p.m., May 12, Lloyd Noble Center.
College of Medicine
10 a.m., May 18, Lloyd Noble Center.
College of Pharmacy
10 a.m., May 18, Paul F. Sharp Concert Hall in the Catlett Music Center.
There will be a clear bag policy at all commencements and at the Party at the Palace. Approved clear bag size is a maximum of 12 inches x 6 inches x 12 inches. There will also be metal detectors at all the main entrances. For information on the ceremonies go here.
For people unable to attend, live stream links will be posted at on OU's website the week of commencement.
Reporting contributed by Carson Browning. This story was edited by Anusha Fathepure, Peggy Dodd and Karoline Leonard. Mary Ann Livingood copy edited this story.
