{"id":13753,"date":"2018-05-05T11:55:34","date_gmt":"2018-05-05T15:55:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analytics.ncsu.edu\/?p=13753"},"modified":"2019-09-05T10:19:51","modified_gmt":"2019-09-05T14:19:51","slug":"11th-annual-commencement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analytics.ncsu.edu\/?p=13753","title":{"rendered":"11th Annual Commencement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Friends and family members gathered under a sunny sky today for the Institute&#8217;s commencement ceremony honoring 111 students in the Class of 2018. It was a joyful occasion and there was a great deal to celebrate. The Class of 2018 was one of the most sought-after by employers in the Institute&#8217;s decade-long history. Students averaged three job offers and garnered record-level base salaries just shy of $100,000. <!--more-->Ninety-five percent of the class already accepted offers of employment, becoming the 11th consecutive class since the Institute&#8217;s inception to exceed 90-percent by graduation.<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations to the Class of 2018! And welcome to the Institute&#8217;s alumni community, which now stands at 760 graduates.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/analytics.ncsu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/graduation2018-1.png\" alt=\"MSA Class of 2018\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-13755\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\"><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/analytics.ncsu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/graduation2018-hat-toss-1.png\" alt=\"MSA Class of 2018\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-13760\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\"><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/analytics.ncsu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/graduation2018-hat-toss-2.png\" alt=\"MSA Class of 2018\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-13759\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friends and family members gathered under a sunny sky today for the Institute&#8217;s commencement ceremony honoring 111 students in the Class of 2018. It was a joyful occasion and there was a great deal to celebrate. The Class of 2018 was one of the most sought-after by employers in the Institute&#8217;s decade-long history. Students averaged [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13754,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analytics.ncsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analytics.ncsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analytics.ncsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analytics.ncsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analytics.ncsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13753"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/analytics.ncsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13753\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16420,"href":"https:\/\/analytics.ncsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13753\/revisions\/16420"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analytics.ncsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analytics.ncsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analytics.ncsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analytics.ncsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}