Temple’s Commencement ceremony honors the achievements of its real-world-ready graduates, who hail from programs as diverse as art history, biology, kinesiology, landscape architecture, marketing, music therapy, theater and hundreds of others.

It also is the celebration of the beginning of their professional lives—the adventures for which they have been preparing in classrooms; student organizations; service, study-abroad and workstudy opportunities; and offices, studios and stages throughout their time at Temple.

Of the Class of 2014’s 9,038 members: 6,236 earned bachelor’s degrees; 1,867 earned graduate degrees; and 935 earned professional degrees.

Since this group of bright, ambitious students set foot on campus in fall 2010, they have witnessed myriad high points in Temple’s history. Among them:

The School of Media and Communication began airing TUTV on Comcast channel 50, on Verizon channel 45 and online at templetv.net. The station broadcasts from the Kal and Lucille Rudman Media Production Center. (2010)

The Boyer College of Music and Dance was nominated for three Grammy Awards in the “Best Instrumental Composition” category. (2010 and 2012)

Licensing revenue from Temple-created technologies grew to $16.7 million. (2010–2014)

Temple congratulated 20 Fulbright students, 10 Udall Scholarship winners and 25 National Science Foundation Graduate Research fellows. (2010–2014)

The Architecture Building opened, doubling the studio space available to architecture students and allowing the College of Engineering to expand in its existing building. (2011)

The 20/20 Scholarship program was established, which offers 250 scholarships to students from the zip codes surrounding the university. (2011)

Temple Football won the Gildan New Mexico Bowl, its first bowl-game victory in 25 years. (2011)

Fox Chase Cancer Center—one of only 41 National Cancer Institute–designated comprehensive cancer centers in the U.S.—became a part of Temple Health. (2012)

The new Temple University Fitness facility, the renovated Pearson and McGonigle Halls, and the expanded Edberg-Olson Athletic Hall brought Main Campus’ fitness space to nearly 400,000 square feet. (2012)

Mitchell and Hilarie Morgan Hall opened, adding 1,275 beds to the residential space on Main Campus. (2013)

Temple inaugurated its 10th president, Neil D. Theobald. (2013)

The departments of Neuroscience, Pharmacology and Physiology in the School of Medicine moved into the top 25 programs nationwide for most funding from the National Institutes of Health. (2014)