Four events over two days send students out in style

Tuesday, May 20, 2025
  • Female graduate in grad cap with huge smile shows a finger with a class ring on it
  • A graduate holding flowers smiles while getting a kiss on the cheek from another woman
  • Family and friends pick a graduate up and lift him into the air
  • A female graduate wearing a fireman's helmet shakes hands as she accepts her diploma
  • A woman graduate looks up as a commencement hood is placed over her shoulders
  • A male graduate in glasses pumps his arms in excitement after receiving his diploma
  • A male graduate hoists his diploma over his head in celebration while walking across the stage
  • A female graduate smiles while displaying her diploma after walking across the stage
  • A female graduate holds a white dog in a small grad cap while shaking hands to receiver her diploma
  • A man holding an honorary diploma stands between two women on stage at commencement

The Âé¶¹app celebrated commencement weekend with three ceremonies on the Durham campus and one at the UNH Franklin Pierce School of Law May 16 and 17, bringing huge crowds of family and friends together to send the graduates off.

The three Durham ceremonies filled the Whittemore Center with capacity crowds, beginning Saturday morning with a celebration for the College of Engineering and Physical Sciences and Peter T. Paul College of Business and Economics. That was followed by a ceremony for the College of Liberal Arts, the College of Professional Studies and the Carsey School of Public Policy and a ceremony for the College of Life Sciences and Agriculture and the College of Health and Human Services.

The UNH Franklin Pierce School of Law kicked the weekend off with a ceremony on its Concord campus Friday evening.

We were there to catch all the action, and you can relive the moments or catch up on what you missed through our and .Ìý

Explore thousands of photos from the weekend in the following galleries:

You can also view the complete ceremonies at the video links below:

Photographer: 
Jeremy Gasowski | UNH Marketing | jeremy.gasowski@unh.edu | 603-862-4465
Makena Lee | Student photographer, UNH Marketing
China Wong | For UNH Marketing