Graduation is held at the end of the Spring semester each year. Students who have petitioned to graduate for the Fall, Spring, and Summer terms are eligible to participate in the graduation ceremony. You must submit a petition for an associate degree at the Counseling Office by the end of the fifth week of the term in which you plan to graduate. You may check the student calendar for specific deadline dates.
The Board of Trustees of the Santa Clarita Community College District as authorized by the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges shall confer the degree of Associate in Arts or Associate in Science upon a student who has satisfactorily completed the degree requirements. Please see the college catalog for specific degree or certificate program requirements.
You may view your program progress via the MAP tile in My Canyons to make sure you are completing your degree requirements and/or make an appointment with a counselor for more information.
The deadline to turn in a Petition for Associate Degree is the end of the fifth week of the graduating semester.
If a student would like to participate in the Graduation Ceremony, and the student is petitioning to graduate in the summer semester, the Petition for Associate Degree is due by April 1st.
The deadline to turn in a Certificate Petition follows the end of the fifth week of the semester in which the requirements are going to be fulfilled.
There is no ceremony for those petitioning for Certificates.
There is one Graduation Ceremony per academic year. The Graduation Ceremony will include those students who graduated in the Fall term and those who Petition to Graduate in the Spring and Summer terms. Specific details about commencement will be sent by email from the Office of Campus Life and Student Engagement.
Please email the Office of Campus Life and Student Engagement at campus.life@canyons.edu for more information or check the Commencement page here.
Please check the Commencement page here for more information.
For questions regarding Honors celebrations, please contact the Honors department at honors@canyons.edu.
Degrees will be mailed to the graduated student at the address provided to College of the Canyons about 3 months after the graduation term is complete. The student is reminded to keep his/her mailing address up to date with College of the Canyons so that the degree is mailed to the correct address. Once your degree and/or certificate is awarded and posted to your transcript, you can request a duplicate diploma via Parchment.
According to the College Catalog:
Catalog rights are determined by the first term a student attends the college. Once catalog rights are established, they will remain with the student until the student leaves the college for one calendar year. The student would need to miss four consecutive terms, (fall, spring, winter, and summer) to lose the catalog rights. A student may opt to use any catalog year for which they have continued attendance.
Catalog Information
Yes. According to the College of the Canyons College Catalog:
College of the Canyons is authorized to award multiple associate degrees provided the following conditions are met:
1. At least 12 semester units are completed in residence at College of the Canyons.
2. All current College of the Canyons general education and American Institutions requirements have been met.
Please refer to the current College Catalog for specific requirement information.
You may also contact the Counseling department to find out specific requirements.
Academic recognition at graduation will be based upon all degree applicable units from College of the Canyons and from all other regionally accredited colleges where the student has completed units. Categories of academic recognition include the following:
Cum Laude Graduate - requires a cumulative Associate degree applicable grade point average of 3.5 - 3.69.
Magna Cum Laude Graduate - requires a cumulative Associate degree applicable grade point average of 3.7 - 3.89.
Summa Cum Laude Graduate - requires a cumulative Associate degree applicable grade point average of 3.9 - 4.0.