Bachelor's Hoods

[Cluey]

We wore hoods and our professors also dressed up in academic regalia.

Our BA graduates wore a hood that was white on one side and red and black on the other. Our BS graduates (like me) wore a hood that was gold on one side and red and black on the other.

Typically, the solid color denotes what field in which you are receiving your degree. The other colors on the hood are where you earned your degree, though it is not as easy to tell some schools apart.

For a list of colors, click here.

I, too, love academic regalia. I am trying to get my high school to go to full academic regalia for graduation, but I am meeting resistance.

Hope this helps!

[astroAPhi]

They only do hoods for Masters and PhD's at Florida Tech, but they do it all screwy.

The hood color for Engineering is orange, but we get yellow for Science. When I asked why, someone told me it was because they get their M.S., not something like a Masters of Engineering. But people who major in Science Education get the blue ones and they don't have a Masters of Education, they have a M.S.!

Well I won't be continuing in Engineering at first anyway. I get wonderful "drab" for Space Systems.

[kappaloo]

At my university you are given your hood during the Convocation (Graduation) ceremony.

[ZTAMich]

my college had them for BA and BS degrees and I was just tickled pink to get one last month!

[carnation]

Says the voice of experience: you guys had better think twice about hoods if you're going to be outside or in a hot environment. That velvet and satin is suffocating. Look closely after a graduation: we profs will be dashing to a cool spot and ripping off the regalia!

[Munchkin03]

Originally posted by carnation
Says the voice of experience: you guys had better think twice about hoods if you're going to be outside or in a hot environment. That velvet and satin is suffocating. Look closely after a graduation: we profs will be dashing to a cool spot and ripping off the regalia!

LOL! Our graduation wasn't hot--it was wet and cold! At my department ceremony afterwards, the professors explained that half had taken off their regalia because it got soaked in the rain! I still think academic regalia is beautiful, though--maybe an incentive for me to get my PhD?