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Date May 25, 2018
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Brown to confer 2,795 degrees at Sunday's Commencement

At its 250th Commencement on Sunday, May 27, Brown University will confer a total of 2,795 degrees in all categories — undergraduate, graduate, medical and honorary.

PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] — Brown University will confer the following degrees at its 250th Commencement exercises on Sunday, May 27, 2018.

Degrees will be conferred during ceremonies at the First Baptist Meeting House (the College), in the First Unitarian Church (the Warren Alpert Medical School), on Simmons Quadrangle (the doctoral ceremony), on Pembroke Field (the master's ceremony) and on the College Green (University ceremony). Undergraduates will receive their individual diplomas at departmental ceremonies following the University ceremony.

Bachelor's Degrees

1,113

Bachelor of Arts (A.B.)

573

Bachelor of Science (Sc.B.)

10

Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Science (A.B./Sc.B.)

1,696

SUBTOTAL bachelor's degrees earned

Master's Degrees

181

Master of Arts (A.M.)

36

Master of Arts in Teaching (M.A.T.)

27

Master of Fine Arts (M.F.A.)

53

Master of Public Affairs (M.P.A.)

40

Master of Public Health (M.P.H.)

261

Master of Science (Sc.M.)

28

Master of Science in Innovation Management and Entrepreneurship Engineering (Sc.M. IMEE)

30

Executive Master of Business Administration (Brown-IE Business School)

61

Executive Master

717

SUBTOTAL master’s degrees earned

Terminal/Professional Degrees

208

Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)

120

Doctor of Medicine (M.D.)

328

SUBTOTAL terminal/professional degrees earned

2,741

TOTAL of all earned degrees

Honorary Degrees

7

Honorary Doctorates

47

Master of Arts, ad eundem

54

SUBTOTAL honorary degrees

2,795

GRAND TOTAL of degrees 
to be conferred May 27, 2018

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