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Summer commencement ceremony held

KINGSVILLE (August 5, 2005) — It’s been a long hot summer, but it is over for 283 graduates who marched across the stage at the Steinke Physical Education Center on the campus of Texas A&M University-Kingsville at 4 p.m. Friday, Aug. 5, to receive their degrees.

Gene Stallings, celebrated football coach and newest member of The Texas A&M University System Board of Regents was the keynote speaker.

Bachelor’s degrees were awarded to 157 students and master’s degrees were given to 122 students. Four students received doctoral degrees.

When they entered the university, 239 of the graduates were from Texas, one was from another state and 43 were from other countries.

Bexar County had the highest number of graduates with 68, followed by Kleberg with 39, Nueces with 27, Jim Wells with 14 and Hidalgo with 12. Fifty-two percent of the graduates were female. Minority students made up 60 percent of the class.

The average age of bachelor’s graduates was 27 years old. The average age of a student receiving a master’s degree was 29 and the average age of students receiving a doctorate was 35. The youngest graduate was 19 with the oldest student at 60.

Of the 157 bachelor’s graduates, 52 entered the university as first time freshmen and 105 entered as transfer students.

Three of the graduates were university employees and 43 were from Texas A&M University-Kingsville System Center-San Antonio.

The College of Arts and Sciences had the most bachelors’ graduates with 61. It was followed by the College of Education with 32, the College of Business Administration with 31, the Frank H. Dotterweich College of Engineering with 26 and the College of Agriculture and Human Sciences with 7.

This page last updated 10 August, 2005