ORIGIN OF GRADUATION

Graduation is getting a diploma or academic degree, or the ceremony that is sometimes associated with it, in which students become graduates. The date of graduation is often called graduation day. The graduation ceremony itself is also called: commencement, convocation or invocation.
Normally, the ceremony and name apply to university level and above (Associate's, Bachelor's, Master's, and Doctoral degrees), however, in the United States, completing mandatory schooling is also referred to as graduating, even though it is substantially below degree level. Graduations for elementary school and kindergartens, and even for passing from one school year to the next, have been a development of recent years. This has received criticism, being described as "just a way of celebrating mediocrity".[1]
Graduation at the college and university level occurs when the presiding officer confers degrees upon candidates, either individually or en masse, even if graduates physically receive their diploma later at a smaller college or departmental ceremony. When ceremonies are associated, they usually include a procession of the academic staff and candidates and a valediction. The faculty will usually wear an academic dress at the formal ceremonies, as will the trustees and the degree candidates. After degree completion, graduates can be referred to by their graduating year.
In some places, graduation parties celebrating graduation from school, college or university are popular. In a recent 2014 nationwide survey in the United States,  was the average amount spent on graduation parties.[2] When a student graduates without attending the graduation ceremony, then it is called graduation in absentia.
 

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