July 8, 2025

In spite of current frequent usage, you don’t “graduate university.” “To graduate” is NOT a transitive verb . For you non grammarians, a transitive verb is one that takes a direct object, one that affects someone one or something directly. The exception is when the university does the graduating, as in “Harvard University graduated 200 people in the class of blah blah.” No one can graduate a university.

I am guessing this incorrect use originates with the desire to sound British and therefore upper

class, as if murdering the King’s English and being grammatically incorrect is okay on either side of the pond. It’s not.

If you want to graduate you have to use a preposition. I graduated FROM the university. From college. From kindergarten.

Congratulations!