Wednesday, November 13, 2019

Graduating in December? Congratulations on your achievements at the University of Georgia!

To prepare for life after graduation, don't forget to:

• Establish a non-UGA email account, such as a Gmail account. Your MyID and UGAMail will expire one year after you leave UGA. We recommend you use a non-UGA email when applying for jobs, graduate school or professional school to ensure you do not lose important emails and contacts.
• Migrate your contacts and archived email. If you have contacts or email from your UGAMail account that you wish to keep, you must migrate these to another email account before your UGAMail account is deleted. You can find instructions for migrating contacts and email on our Help Desk Knowledge Base.
• Stay in touch with the UGA Alumni Association by updating your information at alumni.uga.edu/myinfo.
• Establish an alumni account with Handshake, the UGA Career Center's job posting board, after you graduate. 

Approximately a year after you leave UGA, your MyID and your UGAMail email address will be disabled, and you will no longer have access to them.

Once your accounts are disabled, you will lose access to any campus IT service that requires a MyID including:

• UGAMail
• Office 365 services and products connected to your @uga.edu address
• vLab
• PAWS-Secure and eduroam

EITS periodically performs these account clean-ups to help prevent unauthorized access to the campus network and campus resources. December graduates can expect a notice about account deletion in the summer of 2020.

Any students who choose to stay at UGA to complete another degree program or are employed by UGA will keep their accounts. 

For more information on MyID account clean-ups, visit our MyID account removal page.