>I think Masters' get a stole. No cool hats or hoods until you've given
>the dissertation.

It might vary from institution to institution, but they're hooded at the University of Maine. (I believe the master's hood is of a slightly different cut than the doctoral one.) They do still wear a mortarboard, though; only doctors get the tam.

Oddly, though the doctoral candidates were hooded during commencement, the master's degree people had a separate hooding ceremony the day before. They did march at commencement, but weren't mentioned during the ceremony. I can only assume this is because there were a lot more of them than there were doctorates, and if they had been hooded as part of the same proceedings it would've made commencement take five hours. :)

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