{"id":16421,"date":"2019-05-05T17:00:58","date_gmt":"2019-05-05T21:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analytics.ncsu.edu\/?p=16421"},"modified":"2019-09-05T10:39:06","modified_gmt":"2019-09-05T14:39:06","slug":"annual-commencement-exercise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analytics.ncsu.edu\/?p=16421","title":{"rendered":"Annual Commencement Exercise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Friends and family members gathered today for the Institute&#8217;s commencement ceremony honoring 111 students in the Class of 2019. It was a joyful occasion and there was a great deal to celebrate. The Class of 2019 set new records as was one of the most sought-after by employers in the Institute&#8217;s decade-long history. Students averaged two 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 12th consecutive class since the Institute&#8217;s inception in 2007 to exceed 90-percent by graduation.<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations to the Class of 2019! And welcome to the Institute&#8217;s alumni community, which now stands at 870 graduates.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-16422 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/analytics.ncsu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/msa2019-graduation-1.jpg\" alt=\"MSA Class of 2019\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-16425 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/analytics.ncsu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/msa2019-graduation-3.jpg\" alt=\"MSA Class of 2019\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-16423 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/analytics.ncsu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/msa2019-graduation-2.jpg\" alt=\"MSA Class of 2019\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friends and family members gathered today for the Institute&#8217;s commencement ceremony honoring 111 students in the Class of 2019. It was a joyful occasion and there was a great deal to celebrate. The Class of 2019 set new records as 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":16424,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16421","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\/16421","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=16421"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/analytics.ncsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16426,"href":"https:\/\/analytics.ncsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16421\/revisions\/16426"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analytics.ncsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analytics.ncsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analytics.ncsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analytics.ncsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}