The largest graduating class in University of Cincinnati history celebrated Friday with two in-person commencement ceremonies at Nippert Stadium.
Initially, the university had planned one Thursday ceremony and one Friday ceremony. But inclement weather led university leaders to postpone Thursday evening's ceremony to 2 p.m. Friday
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UC's class of 2021 includes a record-breaking 6,886 students earning 7,225 degrees, president Neville Pinto said during a Tuesday board of trustees meeting.
"Commencement is my favorite milestone each year," Pinto wrote in a statement to The Enquirer. "It’s not only a joyous moment in the lives of our students and their families, it’s also a culmination of the university’s greatest purpose. To be able to share that joy together, in-person, as we close out Spring 2021 with a record graduating class is especially meaningful. It shows that our campus community has a can-do and will-do spirit, always able to do what is needed to keep moving forward.”
The university provided the following figures regarding its spring 2021 graduating class:
- More than 16% of graduates are first-generation college students.
- Nearly half (46%) of this spring's degrees are in the STEMM fields of science, technology, engineering math or medicine.
- Graduates are representative of all 50 states.
- Graduates are representative of 85 of Ohio's 88 counties.
- Graduates are representative of 82 countries.
- 204 graduates come from Cincinnati Public Schools.
- 211 graduates are U.S. veterans or dependents of veterans.
- 504 associate degrees, 4,749 bachelor's degrees, 1,433 master's degrees, 242 doctoral degrees and 297 professional degrees were awarded this spring.
- Graduates range from ages 17 to 72.
Friday's 2 p.m. ceremony featured graduates of the College of Allied Health Sciences, Lindner College of Business, College of Engineering and Applied Science, College of Medicine, James L. Winkle College of Pharmacy, UC Blue Ash College and UC Clermont College.
The 6 p.m. ceremony celebrated graduates of the College of Arts and Sciences, College-Conservatory of Music (CCM), College of Education, Criminal Justice and Human Services (CECH), College of Design, Architecture, Art and Planning (DAAP) and College of Nursing.
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