Oregon State University will graduate a record 8,011 students during its university-wide commencement ceremony Saturday, June 14, at Reser Stadium.
More than 4,300 students are expected to participate in the ceremony that will honor the university’s 156th class. The event is free to attend, open to the public and held rain or shine.
Gates will open at 9 a.m., and tickets are not required. Commencement will be livestreamed in English and Spanish beginning at 10 a.m. on the commencement website. The ceremony is expected to begin at 11 a.m.
The 8,011 graduates will receive 8,257 degrees. (There will be 240 students receiving two degrees and three receiving three degrees.) They will add to the ranks of OSU alumni, who have earned 303,450 degrees over the university’s history.
The commencement address will be given by Nicholas Kristof, an opinion columnist for the New York Times and two-time Pulitzer Prize winner.
The university-wide commencement ceremony held in Corvallis on June 14 celebrates all OSU graduates, including Ecampus and OSU-Cascades graduates. OSU-Cascades’ commencement ceremony for graduates attending OSU-Cascades will be held in Bend on June 15. OSU-Cascades students are welcome to attend both ceremonies.
Some facts and figures about Oregon State’s class of 2025:
- Of the 8,257 degrees that will be awarded, 6,681 will go to students receiving bachelor’s degrees; 1,162, master’s degrees; 218, doctor of philosophy degrees; 64, doctor of pharmacy degrees; 81, doctor of veterinary medicine degrees; and 13, doctor of education.
- OSU’s 2025 graduates represent 35 of Oregon’s 36 counties, 50 states and 69 countries.
- A total of 2,015 identify as Asian; 556, Latinx; 359, First Nations including Alaskan Native; 245, Black or African American; and 149, Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander.
- The oldest graduate is 77 years old; the youngest is 18 years old.
- The graduating class includes 251 veterans of U.S. military service.
- A record 2,345 students in 67 academic degree programs earned degrees through Ecampus, the university’s online education provider. OSU Ecampus serves students in all 50 states and more than 50 countries.
- OSU-Cascades will award 345 degrees. Of those, 256 will go to students receiving bachelor’s degrees and 89 receiving graduate degrees.
- OSU’s Honors College is graduating 266 students.
- The graduating class includes 1,285 students who are the first in their family to earn a college degree; 4,303 Oregon residents; and 3,708 non-resident students, including 648 international students.
- The College of Engineering has the most graduates with 2,101, followed by: College of Liberal Arts (1,285); College of Business (978); College of Science (707); College of Health (498); College of Agricultural Sciences (536); College of Forestry (241); College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences (241); and College of Education (94).