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MTSU is continuing to evolve into a powerhouse in graduate education and a burgeoning research institution with the promise of significant results now and in the near future.

At the Spring 2016 commencement, in a first-ever special graduation ceremony for graduate students, 349 students were presented with graduate degrees, including 316 master’s candidates, 16 education-specialist degree candidates, and 17 doctoral candidates. Four graduate students also received graduate certificates. Paired with that, we also witnessed an increase in the number of students accepted into graduate programs for spring 2016.

The College of Graduate Studies experienced several other significant successes in the past year. Here are just a few examples.

• Collectively, our doctoral programs graduated a record number in summer 2016 with 35 graduates. Ten of these are our first Ed.D. graduates in Assessment, Learning, and School Improvement.
• The success of the Ph.D. program in English is evidenced by the fact that 12 recent graduates are all employed in faculty positions.
• We have a Fulbright Scholar entering the Recording Arts and Technologies M.F.A. program.
• M.S. in Professional Science programs continue to be considered a national model of how to successfully create and operate such a program (we achieved national recognition and a successful external review in 2016).
• We are building upon the success of Computer and Information Systems, Computer Science, Computational Science, and the M.S. in professional Science programs in general, working on the creation of a new Data Science concentration for the Professional Science M.S. to fill the growing need for computer and information science skills in the middle Tennessee area.
• We are experiencing a resurgence in the creation of Education cohorts throughout middle Tennessee (five to nine new cohorts in development).
• Our Regional Scholars program is already impacting enrollment, with more than 30 new eligible out-of-state students within 250 miles of the MTSU campus enrolled in graduate studies.

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