{"id":87174,"date":"2020-04-30T09:18:58","date_gmt":"2020-04-30T13:18:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/?p=87174"},"modified":"2020-04-30T09:18:58","modified_gmt":"2020-04-30T13:18:58","slug":"wdtn-wright-state-to-graduate-over-2100-students-this-spring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2020\/04\/30\/wdtn-wright-state-to-graduate-over-2100-students-this-spring\/","title":{"rendered":"WDTN: Wright State to graduate over 2,100 students this spring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>Excerpt<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-87013\" src=\"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/files\/2020\/04\/commencement-20407_web_18-260x139.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"260\" height=\"139\" \/>Wright State University announced Wednesday that more than 2,100 students have completed the requirements to graduate this spring.<\/p>\n<p>The graduates of spring 2020 have had their official celebration\u00a0put on hold due to COVID-19, the university will recognize their achievements as they have completed their degree requirements. Of the graduates this spring there will be 1,490 bachelor\u2019s degrees, 576 master\u2019s degrees, 25 doctoral degrees and 29 associate degrees.<\/p>\n<p>The class features 122 international students from 27 different countries. India boasts the largest number of foreign graduates, with 47.<\/p>\n<p>According to the university, the two youngest graduating students are 18. One is earning a bachelor\u2019s degree in biochemistry and molecular biology and the other an associate degree in technical study.<\/p>\n<p>The oldest graduate is 72, earning a master\u2019s degree in earth sciences.<\/p>\n<p>Wright State has also provided a list of graduates by college:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>College of Liberal Arts: 415<\/li>\n<li>College of Engineering and Computer Science: 347<\/li>\n<li>Raj Soin College of Business: 345<\/li>\n<li>College of Science and Mathematics: 324<\/li>\n<li>College of Education and Human Services: 304<\/li>\n<li>College of Nursing and Health: 200<\/li>\n<li>Lake Campus: 153<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>View the original story at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wdtn.com\/news\/local-news\/wright-state-to-graduate-over-2100-students-this-spring\/\">wdtn.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Excerpt Wright State University announced Wednesday that more than 2,100 students have completed the requirements to graduate this spring. The graduates of spring 2020 have had their official celebration\u00a0put on hold due to COVID-19, the university will recognize their achievements &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2020\/04\/30\/wdtn-wright-state-to-graduate-over-2100-students-this-spring\/\" class=\"morelink\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":87013,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[730],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wright-state-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87174"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87182,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87174\/revisions\/87182"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}