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Graduation Mall has a wide selection of graduation Tams to choose from and offer exceptional prices that can’t be beat. Our academic regalia tams are made from high quality velvet material, with an elegant hand-made gold bullion tassel.Complete your graduation look for less with our low priced, high quality graduation tam and customize your tam graduation cap to meet the requirements of your university. If you need a tassel for your tam and gown; Graduation Mall has got you covered as we also offer a complete line of Graduation robes, Graduation Hoods and Graduation accessories and gifts to choose from. We take pride in our work and ensure that each of our valued customers is completely satisfied with their purchase or we will work with you until you are. So, if you want the best doctor tams and beefeaters or hood  without breaking the bank check out our complete line of academic regalia.

We understand how hard you have worked to get to this point, and want to do everything we can to help you recognize your accomplishment in style. Graduation Mall carries a full line of Graduation Tams such as doctoral regalia tam, phd tam, Masters Tam, academic tam, 4/6/8 sided tam, velvet tam. We also supply deluxe black Doctoral academic Beefeater to high-ranking officials. Whatever type of tam for graduation you need, Graduation Mall has it; however, chances are our prices are much lower than what you will find anywhere else. Why spend more money somewhere else for the same doctoral regalia tam that you can get at GraduationMall for far less.

Our top quality Graduation tams are the perfect complement to our full line of graduation gowns, hoods and accessories. If you want a doctorate hat, velvet tam, masters tam or bachelors tam to perfectly adorn your head on your big day; take a further look at all of the awesome graduation tams that we have in stock. Best yet, if you are in a hurry; you will be glad to know that when you choose a stock graduation tam, gradation robe or graduation hood from GraduationMall.It will quickly be shipped out to you within 1-3 business days. We strive to provide the best customer service possible to our clients and will do everything that we can to ensure that you have the best graduation day ever in style.

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Complete your  academic doctoral regalia  for your graduation ceremony with our elegant brimmed traditional doctoral Beefeater cap. Using high standard material and construction make this a durable high quality black velvet top beefeater cap. Our black distinguished beefeater features a snug comfortable head rim and comes complete with bright gold bullion colored tassel. At Gradshop we offer a full range of  doctoral gowns , sold individually or in  doctoral tam and gown  packages, academic  Doctoral hoods  customized to your requirements and Tams. Enjoy the simplicity of ordering great quality products at low prices when you shop online at Gradshop for a memorable ceremony.

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Only those who have dedicated years to their education can wear the Doctoral graduation regalia. Congratulations to you on this amazing accomplishment. Wear your doctoral robe proudly knowing that it is made with high-quality materials and crafted by the best in the business. GraduationAttire offers gowns and hoods for formal college ceremonies. Our professional looking matte fabric gowns look fantastic and will stay looking fresh and new for years to come.

When the faculty wears their graduation attire, the graduation ceremony maintains an air of dignity and pomp. Only those who hold a doctorate are entitled to wear the fine gowns with the notable velvet trim. GraduationAttire’s Deluxe Doctoral gowns come in sizes to fit those from 4’6” to 6’11” in regular and plus sizes, are comfortable to wear, and are durable for many years to come.

Hoods are an indicator of the highest degree earned by the wearer by their color and length. We can help you determine the proper colors for the velvet and chevrons on the hood. With a full compliment of colors to choose from, each discipline is available to ensure the highest quality academic hoods.

No ensemble is complete without a cap and tassel. Tams are often chosen for their headgear due to the comfort and look. We offer a handsome velvet tam as an option. At GraduationAttire, our prices make the purchase of an entire doctoral regalia affordable for even the newest doctoral candidate.  

Order your doctoral package today and be ready for your graduation ceremony. We are ready to help you with the experience and professionalism of our customer service staff. They can ensure that you order the correct colors for your gown, hood, and tam.

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Doctoral Gown And Hood Regalia & Robes for Colleges, Universities

If you are in need of a velvet doctoral graduation tam, let us congratulate you on your accomplishment. According to the code governing academic regalia, only those who have earned a doctorate are entitled to wear the doctoral robe with velvet trim. We offer all you need by way of doctoral gowns and hoods for graduation. Order robes for doctoral graduation and all other formal college ceremonies from GraduationSource. Our fine matte fabric gowns look professional and will stay that way year after year. Why rent when we make it affordable to own your PhD graduation regalia?

Doctorate graduation attire enhances the dignity of a graduation ceremony. Individuals who hold a doctorate are entitled to wear fine gowns with velvet trim. Our Deluxe Doctoral gowns are comfortable to wear and come in sizes to fit any professor from 4'6" to 6'8" in regular and plus sizes.

Hoods indicate by their length and colors the highest degree earned by the wearer. We can help determine the correct colors for the velvet and chevrons on any hood. The full array of colors for each discipline is available in the highest quality academic hoods.

Caps and tassels are also part of the complete ensemble. Many professors choose tams as their headgear for greater comfort and good looks. A handsome velvet tam is available as an option.

At GraduationSource prices, you can afford to purchase personal academic regalia. Why bother with renting when it is easy to own a quality ensemble in the correct size? Buy doctoral regalia and be ready for graduation and other important ceremonies. We offer our products in bulk purchasing options, to allow you to buy for an entire doctoral graduating class. We have the experience to help you order the correct colors for hoods, according to your university's specifications.

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We can also customize this gown by adding piping to it, or by changing the velvet color or the fabric color.

This way, you get a truly custom look, for the fraction of the cost of a completely made-to-measure doctoral gown:

The doctoral robe is normally in stock with either Black Velvet or Ph.D. Blue Velvet for $290.00, or with with Black or Blue Velvet and Gold Piping for $365.00

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    If you wish to further customize, the cost of customizing your deluxe gown is $290.00 for the gown plus your choice of the following changes: Fabric color change $75.00; Fabric change to Crepe $125.00 Super 100's Tropical Wool fabric (Black only) $220.00 Velvet color change $30.00; Piping $75.00

Deluxe doctoral gown with black velvet and gold piping - Normally In Stock @ $365.00

Deluxe Ph.D. - doctoral gown with Royal velvet and gold piping - Normally In Stock @ $365.00

Please allow +/- 8 weeks for all semi-custom gowns (that is, deluxe gowns with fabric or velvet changes, or piping added). If you have any questions about custom regalia, please contact our office .

Want to see what a customized gown would look like? Try our custom gown maker and design your own doctoral gown on line !

In addition to our Deluxe Doctoral Gowns, we also stock Faculty Doctoral Gowns for $175.00

However the faculty quality gowns are only available with black velvet, and the sleeves on these gowns are open "choir style", rather than the full bell sleeve of the deluxe gown. Also these gowns cannot be customized.

Faculty quality doctoral gown with black velvet

We also carry an economy student doctor's graduation gown, styled similar to the above faculty gown, but souvenir quality, not intended for years of use by faculty members.

The cost of the economy student doctoral gown is $80.00

Doctoral Graduation Hoods

Deluxe PhD hood / Deluxe PhD gown

The academic hood is comprised of three parts: a fabric shell (usually black), "degree velvet" and "school lining". In most cases, the important factors are the velvet and the lining.

The velvet of the doctoral hood represents your degree. The lining represents the school where you obtained your degree.

For a Ph.D. hood , the degree velvet is Rich Royal Blue, or as we call it, "PhD Blue", regardless of the field or specialty of the Ph.D.

For all other doctorates (non PhD) or degrees, the velvet colors are listed below:   Agriculture -academic hood velvet: Maize Arts / Letters / Humanities - academic hood velvet: White Business / Accountancy / Commerce - academic hood velvet: Drab Communications / Journalism - academic hood velvet: Crimson Dentistry - academic hood velvet: Lilac Economics - academic hood velvet: Copper Education - academic hood velvet: Light Blue Engineering - academic hood velvet: Orange Fine Arts (including Architecture) - Brown Forestry - academic hood velvet: Russet Journalism - Communications / academic hood velvet: Crimson Law - academic hood velvet: Purple Library Science - academic hood velvet: Lemon Yellow Medicine - academic hood velvet: Hunter Green Music - academic hood velvet: Pink Nursing - academic hood velvet: Apricot Oratory (Speech) - academic hood velvet: Silver - Gray Pharmacy - academic hood velvet: Olive Green Philosophy - academic hood velvet: PhD Rich Royal Blue Physical Education - academic hood velvet: Sage Green Public Administration (includes Foreign Service): Peacock Blue Public Health - academic hood velvet: Salmon Pink Science - academic hood velvet: Bright Gold Social Work - academic hood velvet: Citron Theology (including Divinity, Ministry, Religion): Scarlet Veterinary Science - academic hood velvet: Gray

In addition to the degree colors, each school generally has its own colors. These "school colors" are represented by the colors of the satin lining in the back of the hood.

As each academic hood is custom-made according to your school colors, degree colors, and type of degree (BA, MA, or Ph.D.), we ask that you give us about +/- 8 weeks to process your order, especially during the graduation season. What if you don't have that much time to wait? No problem -- ask us about our free loaner hood program!

Deluxe doctoral gown with black velvet and light blue piping added Deluxe Ed.D. hood with light blue velvet with light blue piping

Deluxe Ph.D. and Doctoral Graduation Hoods

Notwithstanding the discipline velvet colors listed on the top paragraph, the correct velvet color for all Ph.D. hoods is dark blue, representing the mastery of the discipline of scholarship attested to by the awarding of the Ph.D.

On the other hand, the correct velvet color for all non-Ph.D. doctorate holders (as well as Masters and Bachelors) would be that of their particular field.

That means that while a Doctor of Education (Ed.D.) would receive light blue velvet, a Ph.D. in English would receive the dark blue velvet.

Similarly a non-Ph.D. Doctor of Science would receive Gold velvet, but a Ph.D. in Science would receive the dark Blue Velvet. A non-Ph.D. Doctor of Engineering would receive Orange Velvet, but a Ph.D. in Engineering would each receive the dark blue velvet.

To avoid confusion, it is very important therefore for all doctors ordering academic hoods to clearly specify whether they are a Ph.D. (and would be receiving the dark blue velvet regardless of their field) or a Doctor of...

Gold piping is also an option for doctors wanting to "dress up" their gown and/or hood.

Piping is often added to customized doctoral hoods to match doctoral gowns with piping.

Deluxe doctoral hood with white velvet with Gold Piping Deluxe doctoral gown with white velvet and Gold Piping added

The price for deluxe hoods with piping is $145.00 The price for deluxe hoods without piping is $130.00 The price for souvenir - student hoods (no piping) is $80.00

We recommend the Deluxe hood for Deluxe and Faculty quality gowns and the Economy doctor's hood for the souvenir gown.

Doctoral Graduation Tams

To "top it off" you have the choice of a Doctoral Tam, or a Mortarboard for your academic cap.

Eight-sided black velvet doctoral tam with Gold Bullion tassel

Although not required, most faculty members who have doctorates purchase doctoral tams, in place of mortarboards, to differentiate themselves from students and non-doctors.

Doctoral tams are available in your choice of four, six, or eight cornersand in your choice of a gold silky tassel or gold metallic tassel, or with plain tassels. If you elect to dress your gown or hood with Gold Piping, then we strongly recommend the Gold Bullion Tassel since it matches better with the gown and hood piping than the silky tassel.

We keep Doctoral Tams in stock in traditional Black velvet, and can also make them in your choice of colors such as Red or Blue.

Most faculty members choose six-sided or eight-sided Tams

Extremely tall and thin people may look better with the eight-sided tam since it tends to look more round, and help "fill a person out", while very short stocky people may look better with a four-sided tam since it is sharper and thus makes the person look "less round".

The cost of the four, six, or eight-sided Tams are $92.00 with the Bullion Tassel or $78.50 with the silky tassel.

If purchasing without a gown, the price of the four and six-sided Tam is the same, but the eight-sided Tam is $20.00 extra.

Tams in Blue or Red or other non-Black velvet colors are $20.00 extra.

When ordering your Doctoral Tam, be sure to indicate your hat size or your head size. Using a tape, measure the circumference of your head about an inch over your eyebrow. The size should be in the neighborhood of 22 to 23 1/2 inches. It should be snug but not too tight. Round size to nearest quarter inch. If you are between sizes, err to the larger quarter inch. A cap size would be something like 6 7/8, 7 1/4, 7 3/8, etc.

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Your PhD graduation ceremony will be a proud and prestigious occasion, and a quality Doctorate graduation cap and gown will ensure you look the part for the big event. We understand how significant your Doctorate graduation is, even if you’re celebrating at home , so we overlook no detail.

Ordering Your Doctorate Graduation Cap and Gown

When it comes to PhD regalia, there is a range of different gowns and accessories to choose from.

At Marston Robing, we offer Doctoral gowns, hoods and bonnets in three styles – PhD, QMUL, and London PhD. Our gown sizes are designed to fit individuals from 5’0 to 7’0 ft tall. To find your doctoral graduation gown size please take a look at our gown size chart .

You can also order a Tudor Bonnet from us, a traditional Doctoral graduation hat. The Tudor Bonnet is soft, comfortable and features an adjustable inner headband. You can choose from a velvet or cloth fabric in black, red or royal blue.

If you are ordering a Doctoral hat, we recommend looking over our graduation hat guide before purchase.

As with all of our graduation gowns , customisation is an option. If you can’t find a Doctorate graduation cap or gown in a colour you’d like, please get in touch with our team and we can discuss your options.

Bespoke Orders: For bespoke orders, please get in touch or give us a call on 01264 339706 . Our team are more than happy to discuss your requirements with you and help you to complete your order.  

If you have any more queries, please head to our FAQ page or get in touch with our team. 

QMUL Gown, Hood and Bonnet with Cord for Doctorate/PhD Level

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Adjustable Tudor Bonnet

A Tudor bonnet is a traditional soft round cap, with a tassel hanging from a cord encircling the hat..

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Adjustable Tudor Bonnet - Ceremony Stock

This item is from our ceremony stock and has been worn once but is in excellent condition.It is adju..

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Honour Cord with Tassels

Honour cords are traditionally provided to individuals graduating with honours and are worn around t..

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London PhD Style Gown, Hood and Bonnet-Ex Hire Stock

This is the London PhD style gown and matching hood with tudor bonnet. Gown - burgundy with bur..

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PhD Style Gown, Hood and Bonnet--Ex Hire Stock

This PhD style gown comes with matching hood and a black tudor bonnet. Gown - re..

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• Can my order be sent to a different delivery address?  Yes, when ordering you will have the opportunity to select a different delivery address.
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Executive summary

Doctoral education trains scientists, engineers, researchers, and scholars, all of whom are critical to the nation’s progress. These individuals create and share new knowledge and new ways of thinking that lead, directly and indirectly, to new products, services, and works of art. Annual counts of doctorate recipients from U.S. universities are measures of the incremental investment in human resources devoted to science, engineering, research, and scholarship, and these counts can serve as leading indicators of the capacity for knowledge creation and innovation in various domains.

Changes in the characteristics of this population over time reflect political, economic, social, technological, and demographic trends. These include the following:

• Changes in representation of doctorate recipients in different demographic groups
• Growth in science and engineering (S&E) fields and changes in their relative size
• Different pathways to the doctoral degree
• Changes in completion time for doctoral study
• Expansion of the postdoctoral researcher pool
• Shifting academic employment opportunities after graduation

Understanding these connections is necessary to informing policy discussions regarding this country’s doctoral education system.

In addition, this report highlights recent doctorate recipients’ graduate experiences and postgraduation plans in the second year of the COVID-19 pandemic. The data in this report cover the 2022 academic year (1 July 2021 to 30 June 2022) and were collected primarily from doctorate students who completed the Survey of Earned Doctorates (SED) as they approached graduation. In 2021, NCSES added new survey questions specifically designed to measure the pandemic’s impact on doctorate recipients. This report compares the results of these data to the previous year.

Key takeaways from the 2022 SED data include the following:

• The number of doctorate recipients from U.S. universities increased after two years of decline. The increase from 52,194 doctorate recipients in 2021 to 57,596 in 2022 was the sharpest 1-year increase (10%) since 1970.
• Between 2021 and 2022, the number of U.S. citizen and permanent resident doctorate recipients increased by 11% to 35,311, while temporary visa holders increased by 10% to 19,633.
• The increase in the number of doctorate recipients between 2021 and 2022 was proportionately larger in S&E fields (11%) than in non-S&E fields (7%).
• Over two-thirds of the 51,063 doctorate recipients who responded to questions about the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2022 indicated their research had been disrupted, compared to less than half of the 41,060 doctorate recipients who responded in 2021. For 80% of them, disruptions stemmed from limited or no access to resources needed for research.
• Over half of doctorate recipients who responded to the COVID-19 pandemic impact questions in 2022 indicated the timeline for completing the doctoral degree was delayed by the pandemic—the second most frequently reported impact. In contrast, 1 in 10 said funding for their doctoral studies had been reduced or suspended.
• The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic varied largely by field and nature of doctoral work, with research disruptions reported in larger proportions by doctorate recipients in fields where laboratories, equipment, and other facilities are indispensable, such as biological and biomedical sciences, physical sciences, and visual and performing arts.
• In 2022, the proportion of doctorate recipients with definite postgraduation commitments increased from 2021 in all fields. However, non-postdoctoral study (postdoc) academic employment commitments declined, while industry or business commitments increased. In addition, the postdoc rate in the United States declined or remained flat in most fields.
• Larger proportions of S&E doctorate recipients who were still seeking employment or negotiating job offers at graduation reported impacts from the COVID-19 pandemic, compared to their counterparts with firm postgraduation commitments.

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AHS students receive fall 2023 awards from the UIC Graduate College

Erika Chavez

Tuesday, December 5, 2023

The UIC Graduate College announced the f all 2023 winners of three internal competitions on Dec. 1: Award for Graduate Research and Provost’s Graduate Research Award. The following AHS students were among the recipients.

Award for Graduate Research and the W.C. and May Preble Deiss Fund for Biomedical Research Award *Balinski, Mariah, Rehabilitation Sciences, PhD Purohit, Rudri, Rehabilitation Sciences, PhD Recipients of the Deiss/AGR are marked with an asterisk (*)

Provost’s Graduate Research Award Nazar Mahvish, Disability and Human Development Sudhir Shraddha, Rehabilitation Sciences

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