Kennesaw State celebrated over 1,400 graduates at three commencement ceremonies last month.
KSU awarded 1,457 degrees from 10 of the university’s academic colleges during commencement ceremonies on July 25. According to the university’s website, undergraduate students walked across the stage on KSU’s campus during the first commencement ceremonies held at 10 a.m. and at 3 p.m., and graduate students had their own commencement later on in the day at 7 p.m.
During the summer commencement ceremonies, KSU gave out approximately 1,100 undergraduate degrees and 300 graduate degrees, according to the Marietta Daily Journal. Among this summer’s graduates, KSU saw an average GPA of 3.16 for undergraduate students and a 3.8 for graduate students.
Most of the summer graduating students earned degrees from KSU’s College of Humanities and Social Sciences — a total of 303 students, according to the MDJ.
KSU President Dr. Pamela Whitten also announced on Tuesday, Aug. 13, that KSU has shown “significant growth” in its summer enrollment since last year.
Whitten stated in her most recent “Written by Whitten” blog post that KSU is one of the top two institutions within the University System of Georgia that has grown the most when it comes to number of students enrolled and percentage of enrollment increase since last year.
KSU had a nine percent increase in summer enrollment from last year — 1,400 more students and 17,425 total. Meanwhile, the USG saw a 5.7 percent increase in summer enrollment overall with 8,356 more students compared to last year.
Whitten attributed part of this achievement to the Office of Undergraduate Admissions.
“[The office] did a great job of informing students of summer course opportunities during its Summer@KSU marketing earlier this spring.”
Whitten also pointed out in her blog post that students had more learning opportunities over the summer than in previous years. Faculty members have made sure to offer online and in-person classes and other programs on campus have offered students the opportunity to study abroad over the summer.
“As Kennesaw State works to become one of the best R2 universities in the nation, these moments of growth will remind us that anything is possible when we keep our focus on students,” Whitten wrote in her blog.
