Record-setting class celebrates with first-ever Memorial Stadium commencement

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In a weekend that featured a first commencement in Memorial Stadium, the University of Nebraska–Lincoln conferred a record 3,594 degrees to 3,512 graduates during the May commencement ceremonies. The 2021 graduates hail from 58 countries, 43 states and the District of Columbia, and more than 250 Nebraska communities.

The graduating class earned 106 new Juris Doctor degrees, 561 other new graduate and professional degrees and 2,927 new baccalaureate degrees.

Since being founded in 1869, the university has awarded 304,968 degrees.

The May exercises were the first time since December 2019 — before the start of the COVID-19 pandemic — that the university held full-fledged commencement ceremonies in person.

More details at: https://news.unl.edu/newsrooms/today/article/nebraska-to-award-record-3594-degrees-in-may-ceremonies/