Due to the pandemic we have not updated this post. We hope we will be able to do that for the class of 2022!
With or without a spring 2020 Boston area college graduation in your family, you'll likely need to coordinate your dining and travel plans around the commencement ceremonies. We have set up this page as a permanent resource and update it as we find new information.
Our list also helps visitors to Boston understand why hotel rooms are so expensive and restaurant reservations so scarce on some dates in May. The local destination experts on travel websites are busy answering questions about the cost of visits to our city.
Reservations at area restaurants will be harder to find May 9th, 10th and 11th with Mother's Day and 5 commencements, and scarce May 15th through 18th when 17 schools – including Boston University, Tufts University, and Boston College – will hold ceremonies. Harvard commencement is May 28th and MIT May 29th – each of these schools is large enough to have an impact on its own. Harvard can also interfere with traffic as they move busloads of people from one place to another around event time.
To help you plan your dining options in May and early June, here are the dates of the major commencement ceremonies for your 2020 calendar.
If you know of a Boston area college or university graduation date that we've missed, send us a comment.
April 25, 2020
May 1, 2020 – May 3, 2020
May 8, 2020 – May 11, 2020
- Berklee College – May 9, 2020
- Boston Conservatory – May 9, 2020
- Massachusetts College of Pharmacy – May 9, 2020
- Emerson College – May 10, 2020
- Mother's Day – May 10, 2020
- MGH Institute of Health Professions – May 11, 2020
May 15, 2020 – May 18, 2020
- New England Law Boston – May 15, 2020
- Simmons University – May 15, 2020
- Suffolk University – May 15-17, 2020 Commencement Weekend
- Babson College – May 16, 2020
- Benjamin Franklin Institute of Technology – May 16, 2020
- Bentley University – May 16, 2020
- Emmanuel College – May 16, 2020
- Fisher College – May 16, 2020
- Hellenic College Holy Cross – May 16, 2020
- Lasell College – May 16, 2020
- Lesley University – May 16, 2020
- Boston University – May 17, 2020
- Brandeis University – May 17, 2020
- The New England College of Optometry – May 17, 2020
- New England Conservatory – May 17, 2020
- Tufts University – May 17, 2020
- Boston College – May 18, 2020
May 21, 2020 – May 24, 2020
- Bunker Hill Community College – May 21, 2020
- Northeastern University School of Law – May 21, 2020
- Boston Architectural College – May 22, 2020
- Boston College Law School – May 22, 2020
- Massachusetts College of Art and Design – May 22, 2020
May 28, 2020 – May 31, 2020
- Harvard University – May 28, 2020
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology – May 29, 2020
- North Bennet Street School – May 29, 2020
- University of Massachusetts Boston – May 29, 2020
June 12, 2020 – June 14, 2020
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