• A total of 1,273 degrees will be awarded during this year's Commencement Exercises to:
  • 980 students from the undergraduate day school
  • 225 students from the Graduate Studies Program
  • 62 students from the School of Continuing Education
  • Six distinguished guests - including three Providence College alumni - receiving Honorary Degrees
• Undergraduate day school students come from 34 states and four foreign countries
• Gender distribution for undergraduate day school students:
  • Female - 56%
  • Male - 44%
• Most popular day school undergraduate majors:
  • Biology, Marketing, Management, Political Science, English, Elementary/Special Education, Finance
• Members of the Providence College class of 2008 will pursue post-graduate studies in medicine, dentistry, public health, nursing, optometry, pharmacy, physical therapy, and biomedical sciences at universities throughout the country including Brown University Alpert Medical School, University of Connecticut Medical School, Creighton University Medical School, University of Michigan School of Dentistry, Dartmouth University, Duke University School of Nursing, New England College of Optometry, Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, University of California at San Diego/Skaggs School of Pharmacy, University of Rhode Island, Boston University Medical School, and Georgetown University.
• Graduates also will continue post-graduate studies in law, business a host of other professional and academic fields at nearly 90 colleges and universities across the nation including Boston University, Brandeis University, Catholic University of America, Columbia University, Cornell University, Dartmouth College, Fordham University, Northeastern University, Simmons College, Stanford University, Tufts University, University of Notre Dame, University of Pennsylvania, and Yale University.
• The list of employers who have successfully recruited this year's Providence College graduates is equally impressive. Employers include: Central Intelligence Agency, EMC Corporation, Ernst & Young, Fidelity Investments, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Goldman Sachs, Hewlett-Packard Company, John Hancock Financial, Johnson & Johnson, Merrill Lynch & Company, O Magazine, Nestle USA, PricewaterhouseCoopers, U.S. State Department of Diplomatic Security, and Wells Fargo & Company.
• Not-for-profit service employers include: AmeriCorps, Boston Children's Hospital, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Jesuit Volunteer Corps, National Cancer Institute, New England Center for Children, Teach for America, and U.S. Peace Corps, and WorldTeach - Ecuador.

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