Pomp and Circumstance

Summer 2007

      • Length of May 17, 2007, undergraduate Arts and Sciences and Whiting School of Engineering commencement: 100 minutes

• Length of film The Graduate: 105 minutes

• Mrs. Robinsons who have spoken at college and university commencements from 2000 to 2007: 6*

• Number of commencement ceremonies at JHU in 2007: 10

• Bachelor’s degrees awarded to the first graduating class of engineers at JHU in 1915: 3

• Bachelor’s degrees awarded by the Whiting School in 2007: 309

• Master’s degrees awarded by the Whiting School in 2007: 873

• Percentage of total master’s degrees that were awarded through WSE’s Engineering Programs for Professionals (EPP) in 2007: 69%

• PhDs awarded by the Whiting School in 2007: 62

• Months it takes JHU’s commencement director, India Lowres, to plan commencement: 10

• Photographs taken by Homewood Photographic Services at all JHU 2007 commencements: 7,786

• Commencement addresses given by members of the Bush family since 2000: 31*

• Commencement addresses given by members of the Clinton family since 2000: 35*

• Most requested speaker (by undergraduates) at JHU in 2007: Jon Stewart

• Number of commencement addresses given by Jon Stewart in 2007: 0

• JHU undergraduate commencement speaker in 2007: Brian Billick, head coach of the Baltimore Ravens

*From the Chronicle of Higher Education Commencement Database