Serious Advice: Remove the graduation date from your resume. Most companies at an institutional level don't care when you got your degree so long as you have on

Serious Advice: Remove the graduation date from your resume. Most companies at an institutional level don't care when you got your degree so long as you have one. Specific people might care if it comes up but not enough to make a point of it. They're generally perfectly happy to hire you based on your interview performance. Source: Have been involved in hiring at giant software corp