Graduation date on application form

book12

When they mean 'graduation date', does it mean what date I finished uni/school?

hieveryone

The date you graduated from university, we don't tend to 'graduate' from school in the UK

book12

That means I put the date I finish school/uni then? Which means May/June?

hieveryone

I'm not sure what you're getting confused about - do you have a degree? i.e have been to university? If so, put the date you intend (or did) graduate. i.e 'June 2009'.

It isn't common in the UK to state that you have 'graduated' from school (i.e high school), so the job application is meaning the date you graduated from university.

book12

I put June for mine, as I finished uni at that month. Graduation ceremony September.

TEDDYRUKSPIN

book12 wrote: »

I put June for mine, as I finished uni at that month. Graduation ceremony September.

Actually graduation date should be September but it does'nt really matter.

hieveryone

As an aside, what's your degree in ?!

Savvy_Sue

Your graduation date is technically the date on which your degree was conferred, so either your degree ceremony date or the date on your degree certificate.

I say this, because a friend's daughter had to graduate 'in absentia' (have her degree certificate posted to her) because her ceremony wasn't going to be until the autumn, and she couldn't start her graduate level job before she'd actually, formally, graduated, got the (right to wear the) silly hat etc.

Between finishing your exams and getting the bit of paper you are a graduand, not a graduate.

book12

Savvy_Sue wrote: »

Your graduation date is technically the date on which your degree was conferred, so either your degree ceremony date or the date on your degree certificate.

I say this, because a friend's daughter had to graduate 'in absentia' (have her degree certificate posted to her) because her ceremony wasn't going to be until the autumn, and she couldn't start her graduate level job before she'd actually, formally, graduated, got the (right to wear the) silly hat etc.

Between finishing your exams and getting the bit of paper you are a graduand, not a graduate.

Oops, I put the date I finished university (i.e. May), instead of the moth when the degree was conferred (i.e. June). I hope it doesn't matter.

TEDDYRUKSPIN

Does'nt matter. Just makes your degree shorter. Just correct it in the next cv.

Savvy_Sue

I agree with Teddy, chances of anyone getting upset over that are miniscule. Put June in future, but if you ever have to show your degree certificate and someone queries that you said May on your cv but it says June just explain you put your finishing date rather than your graduation date.

But when the OP asks what something means, I like to be able to tell them.