How to Look Up Friends on Facebook by Graduation Year

By Ryan Menezes

Graph Search accepts multiple search criteria to find profiles.
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"Graduation year" was a part of Facebook's search tool in the site's earliest days, back when it accepted college students exclusively. Though Facebook later dropped its advanced search tool, Graph Search, which the site introduced in 2013, once again lists users who graduated in a given year. This tool can find your classmates or can locate people who are approximately the same age as you. Graph Search places your current friends first in search results, but it also displays other users that you can add as friends.

Step 1

Open Facebook's Graph Search page (link in Resources). Click "Join Waiting List" to add Graph Search to your profile within a few days (see Tips).

Step 2

Type "people who graduated in" in the Facebook search bar at the top of the page.

Step 3

Type a year, and then press "Enter" to run the search.

Step 4

Scroll through the search results to find friends by graduation year. Optionally, refine the search using the drop-down boxes on the right side of the page, choosing a particular school or assigning other criteria.

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