Doctorate Hood
Details
It is the candidate's responsibility to obtain the correct regalia. Please contact the conferring department with any additional questions regarding tassel/hood color and degree.
If you are receiving a doctoral degree other than a PhD, the velvet color should be as follows:
PhD (Doctor of Philosophy) = Royal Blue Velvet regardless of discipline.
If you are receiving a PhD in any field, your hood should have the royal blue velvet.If you are receiving a doctoral degree other than a PhD, the velvet color should be as follows:
- Arts (DARTS - Speech, Language and Hearing; Audiology) = White
- Education (EdD) = Light Blue
- Engineering (DE Only) = Orange(DE only. All other Engineering doctoral degrees receive PhD Blue)
- Juris (JD) = Purple
- LLM = Purple (same as JD hood)
- Medicine (MD) = Green
- Music = Pink
- Nurse Practitioner (DNP) = Apricot
- Occupational Therapy (DOT) = Ink
- Pharmacy = Olive
- Physical Therapy (DPT) = Teal
- Dr. of Juridical Science (SJD) = Royal Blue (order PhD Royal Hood)