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Graduation Honor Cords

Graduation Cords and Honor Cords

Honor cords are tokens graduates are awarded for various academic and non-academic achievements. Graduation ropes can signify a graduate’s membership to certain honor societies, fraternities, or sororities. Some schools provide students with grad ropes during major events in their college experience such as freshman convocation or ceremonies conducted by specific departments.  

Graduates graduating with honors will often be given pairs of honor cords. At some universities, one pair of cords indicates cum laude, two pairs indicate magna cum laude, and three pairs indicate summa cum laude.

Unlike graduation tassels and honor stoles, graduates can traditionally wear more than one cord at a time. Nothing will make you standout from the crowd during a commencement ceremony than walking down the stage draped in a collection of brightly colored graduation honor cords.

Graduation ropes are long, thin, and soft with tassels on each end. Tassel Depot has an extensive selection of graduation cords in your choice of solid colors or color combinations. Shop our honor cords and custom charms!

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School Administrators and Bulk Orders

Do you need to give honor cords to the members of an honor society? What about graduation honor cords for a university’s entire graduating class? Tassel Depot can supply you with all the graduation accessories you need, including high quality honor cords in a myriad of solid and combination colors.

You can purchase individual pieces or bulk orders all the way up to 1,000 pieces and more. The price per piece will go down for larger orders of grad ropes. For larger orders exceeding 1,000, please call for pricing. For official school purchase orders, email Tassel Depot at [email protected].

Glossary of Graduation Cords

Single Honor Cords – These cords are one solid color and feature only one rope. At Tassel Depot, solid honor cords can come in a single color or a patterned color like our specialty Kente or rainbow cords.

Braided Honor Cords – These types of single cords are made up of two colors twisted together. Tassel Depot offers a variety of two-color and even three-color combinations. Custom combinations are welcome!

Double-Tied Honor Cords – These pairs of cords feature two different cords knotted together in the middle. One cord can be single while the other is braided or both cords can be the same type of cord. Pairs can come in different colors or the same colors. If you need double-tied graduation cords, make sure to request cords be tied together in your order instructions to Tassel Depot.

Standard Honor Cords – These cords are made up of 54-inch twisted rope with two 4-inch chainette tassels at each end. Total length equals 62 inches.

Premium Honor Cords – These cords are made up of 60-inch twisted robe with two 4-inch premium tassels on each end. Total length equals 68 inches.

Charms – These are small tags typically made of metal attached to honor cords just above the tassels. Charms typically show the year of a specific graduating class. They can also be Greek letters signifying a specific fraternity or sorority. Club logos or religious symbols are also popular options. Tassel Depot also welcomes custom charm designs.