3 Easy Steps to Apply to Graduate
Step 1: Schedule an appointment with an OCC Counselor to apply for graduation.
Step 2: During your appointment, you'll complete your graduation application with the counselor.
Step 3: Receive confirmation from the Registrar's Office.
After you've submitted your graduation application: Confirm your mailing address
Step 1: Schedule an appointment with an OCC Academic Counselor
This will only take about 30 minutes. If you are participating in the commencement
ceremony, please complete your graduation application by Friday, April 15 to ensure that your name will be published in the commencement program booklet.
There are two options for scheduling your appointment:
ONLINE (MOST PREFERRED)
- Log into your MyOCC account.
- Click “College Resources.”
- Click “Make a Counseling Appointment.”
- Log into the system again.
- Select the campus where you would like to schedule your counseling appointment and
click “submit”.
- Select “make appointment”.
- Select “phone call to discuss graduation requirements” for the reason why you're scheduling
the counseling appointment, and click “Continue.”
- Select the day, start time, stop time and Counselor you want for your appointment.
- Click “Search.”
- Select the green box to make your appointment.
- Enter and verify your phone number. Then click “Submit”.
- An appointment confirmation to your OCC email address.
PHONE CALL
Schedule your appointment with an OCC counselor by calling the number below for your
specific campus.
Step 2: During your appointment, you’ll complete your graduation application with
the Counselor
- Upon receipt of the authorizing email from your OCC email address, the Counselor will
work with you to complete your application and will submit it on your behalf during
your appointment.
- If you have any questions about your graduation application after your appointment,
you can follow up with your Counselor by sending an email through your OCC email account.
Step 3: Receive confirmation from the Registrar’s office
- Once your graduation application has been submitted by a Counselor, you will receive
a letter from the Registrar’s office. Letters will be mailed starting in March 2022.
- This letter will explain the graduation process and diploma mailing date.
- For any Graduation questions, please send an email to ces@oaklandcc.edu from your
OCC email address.
While you wait: Confirm your mailing address
- If you have an address change, please update your address as soon as possible to ensure
that you can receive your diploma. This can be done at any campus Student Services
office, or by emailing Enrollment Services.