Celebrating Yale 2026

Here you’ll find news and features about Commencement 2026 from around the Yale campus, including preview and event coverage, student stories, and related links. This page will be updated throughout the weekend and beyond.

Commencement across Yale

‘I’ve enjoyed every moment’: A heartfelt, celebratory sendoff for Yale’s Class of 2026

‘You will serve our nation well’: Yale recognizes ROTC graduates

Yale awards eight honorary degrees

YSN celebrates 100th diploma ceremony and welcomes the Class of 2026

Graduating Hurst Horizon Scholars reflect

Capturing graduation moments at Sterling Memorial Library

YSE Class of 2026: Meeting environmental challenges with ‘openness and willingness to listen’

Celebrating the Yale Law School Class of 2026 — rising to the challenge

Called to act: Yale School of Medicine celebrates the M.D. Class of 2026

Divinity dean urges graduates to ‘mend the tattered fabric’

Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences celebrates the Class of 2026

Visit the Yale 2026 website

Class Day & Baccalaureate

‘Time is our teacher’: Class Day at Yale

‘Poised between memory and possibility’: McInnis urges grads to celebrate ‘glorious’ memories — and the forgettable ones

Twelve seniors receive Yale College’s top student prizes

The hats of Class Day

Meet the graduates

Yale College 2026: Meet some of the graduates

For Yale nursing student, graduation marks a ‘full circle moment’

YSE Class of 2026: Transforming the West’s understanding of its most mythologized ‘pest’

Meet these divinity graduates

Class of 2026 graduates win library prizes for best senior essays

From the forest floor to the front of the classroom

A ‘random class’ led her to large language models

PA Online Program’s final class embraces the pull of their next chapter

From conflict to development economics: Clair Kevin Nshimirimana’s journey to Yale

From soccer to nanoparticles to leading tours, and much more

Two new Chauncey Fellows will pursue year-long projects in the arts or public service

Reassembling the story of Yale’s early Black students with archival research and interactive mapping

Dollar stores as a window into American history

How — and why — do we change our minds about others?

Creating musical instruments anyone can play

Unveiling a new link in gecko evolution

Innovator spotlight: Elijah Lee ’26, co-founder of Forte3D

Library celebrates Class of 2026 student employees

Preview coverage

Visit the Yale Commencement website

Yale to award leaders in their fields with honorary degrees

Acclaimed author Min Jin Lee ’90 to deliver Class Day address

Yale School of Public Health debuts new ceremonial mace

Livestream links

Yale University 325th Commencement Ceremony

Yale College Class Day Exercises

Yale College 2025 Baccalaureate Ceremony

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