Graduation's the action of receiving or conferring an academic degree or the ceremony that's sometimes associated, where students become Graduates. Before the graduation, candidates are referred to as Graduands. The date of graduation's often called degree day. The graduation itself's also called commencement, convocation or invocation. At the University of Cambridge, the occasion on which most graduands receive their BA degree's known as general admission. In the United States and Canada, it's… (More on Graduation)