If you're a high school student, the tassel goes on the right before your graduation ceremony. Once you've received your diploma, you move the tassel from the right to left. For college students ...

UGA hoods are thus lined in red and black ... The gold tassel is commonly reserved for students who are receiving terminal degrees. Graduation dress is used to symbolize a student's achievements ...

If every tassel on every graduation cap was always meant to go on the same side, it might be easier to remember which side that was. But that’s not how it works: Some tassels start on one side ...