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This article may require cleanup to meet Wikipedia’s quality standards. The specific problem is: grammar and wikicode issues. Graduation is the awarding of a diploma to a student by an educational institution. It may also refer to the ceremony that is associated with it. The date of the graduation ceremony is often called graduation day. Ceremonies for graduating students date from the first universities in Europe in the twelfth century. At that time Latin was the language of scholars.

Degree” and “graduate” come from gradus, meaning “step”. The first step was admission to a bachelor’s degree. The second step was the masters step, giving the graduate admission to the universitas and license to teach. The tradition of wearing graduation hats in Sweden has been in place since the mid-eighteenth century. The cap is typically a white sailor hat with a black or dark blue band around it, a crown motif, and a black peak at the front.