Published down to the hour

UW-Platteville’s commencement page reads “Spring Commencement May 15, 2027”, and its event listing for that day gives the rest: “Location: Bo Ryan Court, Williams Fieldhouse, 350 Jay Street, Platteville, Wisconsin”, then three sittings.

9:00 a.m. College of BILSA. 12:30 p.m. College of EMS. 4:00 p.m. College of LAE, Associate degrees, and Master’s degrees.

15 May 2027 is a Saturday. Date, venue, hours and colleges, all from the university, nine months out. It is the fullest publication in this batch of clusters.

The order is not the same every term

The university’s pages carry a caution worth repeating: the college order changes by term. The Spring 2027 order above is BILSA, then EMS, then LAE. A family working from a 2026 programme could have the wrong hour. Use the 2027 listing.

Open to the public, and streamed

“All ceremonies … are open to the public,” per the commencement page. No tickets, no allocation per graduate. The same page names the parking lots for Williams Fieldhouse and says every ceremony is live-streamed and captioned. Those are standing statements as read on 14 September 2026.

December, same shape

Saturday 12 December 2026, Bo Ryan Court, the same three sittings in the same order. The Friday night for the morning and midday sittings; the Friday and likely the Saturday for the 4 p.m. It is only months away.

The town is the constraint

About 190 hotel rooms in three properties, against 1,037 graduates in 2026. With the sitting already known, the where to stay page can say which night to book, and where Dubuque fits when Platteville is gone.