Before You Start: This article is for Undergraduate, MBA, and WEMBA Wharton students. PhD Students should see the Graduation Technology To-Do List for PhDs.
Wharton Student Computing wants your technology transition at graduation to be as smooth as possible. To help you, we've compiled a list of items to make sure your email, data, and accounts are ready to go and that you know all of the important dates for account closings. Congrats on this major milestone!
Your access to Wharton and Penn online services ends shortly after you graduate, and some services end earlier than others.
| See our Graduating Students: Account Closing Dates article for a comprehensive table with important dates for your student accounts. |
Your Google@Wharton account (Gmail, Google Docs, Google Drive, etc.) is deleted one year following graduation. Learn how to save important emails and begin forwarding to your Alumni Forwarding Address.
Before you leave campus, unsubscribe from any mailing lists you're currently on. If you are the owner of a mailing list(s), identify and assign a new owner for the list. (Only current Wharton students can own mailing lists).
Save data you'd like to keep before you lose access. To find out when you lose access to certain services, see our Graduating Students: Account Closing Dates article.
All data related to your Google@Wharton account can be downloaded using the Google Takeout service.
Store your Google Takeout archive in a personal Google Drive or other storage location.
All files from a single course can be downloaded at once by highlighting all files (Ctrl+A or Cmd+A) and clicking the download arrow.
You may also want to check Penn's Canvas After Graduation article for any important information.
You usually have 90 days following the end of your course to retrieve materials from Study.Net.
Your PennO365 account, including OneDrive storage and files, will be deleted within 60 days after graduation.
OneDrive: Login to portal.office.com using your PennO365 account, select all files/folders you'd like to keep, and click Download in the top-left.
30 days after graduation, students will be off-boarded to a free or basic Dropbox account (comes with 2GB of space) with continued access to data and options to upgrade if they choose. Your personal address will be set to your alumni forwarding address.
You won't lose your data but because the basic Dropbox quota is 2GB, anything over that amount will need to be moved to another storage location. More info here.
30 days after graduation, MBA access to Slack will be removed and you will not be able to access or recover anything past this date. See Export your Workspace to save your data.
See our Backing Up: What Are the Best Solutions For You? article for a comparison of different backup solutions.
When your Google@Wharton account is deleted, all shared documents will be as well! In order to avoid this, we suggest changing ownership for files that club members will still need as well as doing a complete backup of your account.
Follow Google's instructions to change the ownership for each file to another Wharton user.
Yes, you have to do this for each file you want transferred!
Use the Google Takeout service to download a personal backup of all your Google Drive files.
Print credit is non-refundable but is usable until your Wharton account expires. Funds remaining in PennCash will be refunded shortly following graduation.
Print credit is non-refundable but is usable until your Wharton account expires. To check your balance, log in to MyWharton, click All Links, and click Print Credit Balance.
Log in to PennCash.com to view any remaining funds.
A refund will be issued automatically shortly following graduation or you can request one manually by contacting the PennCard Office.
3601 Walnut St, Rm 219, Philadelphia, PA 19104
penncard@upenn.edu
215-417-2273
Even though your access to some services will end, remain a part of the Wharton family post-graduation by visiting the Wharton Alumni Relations Website and MyPenn.
Visit the Wharton Alumni Relations website to learn more about your opportunities as a Wharton graduate.
MyPenn is a one-stop portal for Penn and Wharton alumni. It is your online directory that connects you with fellow alumni around the world. You will also find an events calendar and access to exclusive alumni resources. Log in today to update your profile and explore the Wharton community.
Although your PennCard will expire shortly after graduation, alumni are able to purchase an Alumni PennCard which offers many of the same benefits and discounts as your student PennCard. For more information on what is available to you, visit the Alumni PennCard website.
