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Universities around Central Florida celebrate Fall graduation season with commencement ceremonies

Embry Riddle Commencement Bachelor’s degree students walk the stage to get their diplomas, Fall 2022.

ORLANDO, Fla. — Universities around Central Florida have spent the week celebrating their Fall 2022 graduates.

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Commencements took place around the state, where students got the chance to walk on stage and receive their diplomas.

The following institutions held their ceremonies this week:

Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University

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A total of 644 students earned degrees from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University’s Daytona Beach Campus.

470 were undergraduates, 132 received master’s degrees and 16 received doctoral degrees.

In total, 39 graduates were Worldwide Campus students walking.

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UCF

According to UCF’s publication, they were expected to award about 6,200 degrees during four different ceremonies that took place Friday and Saturday.

UCF has awarded more than 407,000 degrees since classes began in 1968.

Valencia College

The college awarded 9,595 degrees in the Fall of 2022.

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They’ve got a total enrollment of 68,915 students.

Stetson University

Stetson had 3,939 students enrolled for the Fall 2022 semester.

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2,572 students were undergraduates and 1,367 were graduate students.

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