If you’re graduating with your master’s or doctoral degree, you will wear a black gown and a hood lined with velvet trim denoting your field of study. Master’s students will wear a mortarboard cap and ...

This doctoral set is rented and includes the following pieces --Tassel; Tam; Gown: Black with velvet elements. Hood: Lined in blue and gold. The velvet border is 5" wide at the doctoral level. The ...

Doctoral graduates wore black gowns with three velvet bars on each sleeve to indicate their degree level, along with the traditional black mortarboard, the standard academic cap for all graduates.

All other doctoral candidates will wear the black doctoral gown,” Barnes wrote. Advertisement. Lee and some fellow students have continued to push for changes.