This word, when applied to one who receives a degree from a college, is a past participle of the verb to graduate, (to mark with degrees, to confer a degree,) and requires some part of the verb to be before it: yet it is, oftener than otherwise, used in the past tense of the active verb.
The propriety of how to use graduate appears to have not been something that we fretted about overmuch until the second half of the 19th century, when some grammarians suddenly decided that this was something very much worth fretting about, and that the word should properly only be used in a transitive sense: "She was graduated from Nescience University." by Geffray Fenton), 1569 Is Graduated Transitive? Antonio de Corro, A Epistle or Godlie Admonition (trans. Is not hee the souerayne Doctoure, graduated not at Paris, but in Paradyse, whome our Heauenly Father hath ordeyned for our chief schoolemaster with expresse commaundement, to heare him? Graduate has been with us since the 15th century, existing as a noun, an adjective, and a verb (most people who worry about this word are only concerned with the verb use). In the second half of the 19th century, many usage writers decided that 'graduate' should only be used in a transitive sense as one such commenter wrote, "students do not graduate they are graduated." You can safely ignore this rule.
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