Commencement 2011
Speaker Janet Napolitano, US homeland security secretary: “Today, we live in a world where change is a certainty—and where the pace of that change is growing ever faster. Past generations could not bank on the fact that the world would be all that different four, forty, or a hundred years in the future. But we can. This gives us greater opportunities, to be sure, but greater risks as well. Your challenge as graduates will be figuring out how to take advantage of the dynamism of today’s world—and use your unique skills to make it better.”
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Commencement 2011
Counting Commencement
3,879 graduates
47 simultaneous degrees
2,015 undergraduate degrees
1,276 master’s degrees
630 doctoral degrees (professional and research)
49.3 percent Caucasian
16.1 percent Asian/Pacific Islander
10.9 percent black
3.8 percent Hispanic
19.8 percent other minorities or of unspecified race
43.4 percent male
56.6 percent female
557 students from 79 additional countries
49 states represented
32 degree candidates age 50 and older
Oldest degree candidate: 67
Oldest bachelor’s degree recipient: 49
Youngest: 20
25 military service veterans graduating
Average GPA of Emory College graduates: 3.39
