[276] MTSU Announces Graduates for Fall 2010

Jan. 24, 2011
CONTACT: News and Media Relations, 615-898-2919

MTSU ANNOUNCES GRADUATES FOR FALL 2010
County-by-County Listing of Fall 2010 Graduates Now Available Online

(MURFREESBORO)—Middle Tennessee State University has released the names and hometowns of students who graduated during the fall 2010 commencement ceremony on Saturday, Dec. 18, in Murphy Center on the MTSU campus.
Of the 1,646 who were set to graduate during the university’s fall commencement, 1,378 were undergraduates and 268 were graduate students, including 247 master’s candidates, 12 education specialist recipients and 5 doctoral candidates.
The dual-commencement event featured J. Stanley Rogers, senior partner with the Rogers & Duncan law firm in Manchester, Tenn. addressing the morning graduates and State Sen. Randy McNally, R-5th District speaking to the afternoon graduates.
Graduates from the College of Graduate Studies, Jennings A. Jones College of Business, and College of Education and Behavioral Sciences received their degrees in the morning ceremony, while degrees were conferred upon candidates in the College of Basic and Applied Sciences, College of Liberal Arts, College of Mass Communication, and the College of Continuing Education and Distance Learning, during the afternoon event.
 HOW TO OBTAIN YOUR COUNTY’S STUDENT LIST: To obtain a list for editorial use of students from your county who graduated during MTSU’s fall 2010 commencement, please go to the News and Media Relations website at www.mtsunews.com and click on the “Graduation Lists” link on the upper left-hand side of the page.
Next, click on the “Fall 2010 Graduation List” link, which will include an alphabetical, county-by-county listing of those MTSU students who graduated Dec. 18, 2010.
***Please note that this Web page also contains directions on how to download and save your county’s list for editorial use in your publication.

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ATTENTION, MEDIA: If you encounter any problems downloading and saving your county’s list, please contact the Office of News & Media Relations at MTSU at 615-898-2919.

Founded in 1911, Middle Tennessee State University is a Tennessee Board of Regents institution located in Murfreesboro and is the state’s largest public undergraduate institution. MTSU now boasts one of the nation’s first master’s degree programs in horse science, and the Council of Graduate Schools in Washington, D.C., acclaims MTSU’s Master of Science in Professional Science degree—the only one in Tennessee—as a model program. MTSU recently unveiled three new doctoral degrees in the sciences.