{"id":5294,"date":"2013-05-06T17:40:59","date_gmt":"2013-05-06T21:40:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/analytics.ncsu.edu\/?p=5294"},"modified":"2025-06-28T16:47:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-28T20:47:10","slug":"5294","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analytics.ncsu.edu\/?p=5294","title":{"rendered":"MSA Commencement Ceremony"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Institute for Advanced Analytics held its annual commencement exercise for the Master of Science in Analytics (MSA) <a title=\"MSA Class of 2013\" href=\"https:\/\/analytics.ncsu.edu\/?page_id=4564\">Class of 2013<\/a>. Diplomas were awarded to eighty-one degree candidates. The Institute&#8217;s director, Dr. Michael Rappa, presided over the ceremony, held at the Raleigh Convention Center, and was joined by members of the faculty and staff and four-hundred guests. It was the Institute&#8217;s sixth commencement exercise since its inception in 2007. The new graduates join the Institute&#8217;s alumni community, which now numbers 255 graduates. Graduates and their families had much to celebrate with over 90-percent of the class having <!--more-->already accepted a job in the analytics profession. Fast following in their footsteps are 84 members of the MSA Class of 2014. Congratulations and best wishes to this year&#8217;s graduates!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Institute for Advanced Analytics held its annual commencement exercise for the Master of Science in Analytics (MSA) Class of 2013. Diplomas were awarded to eighty-one degree candidates. The Institute&#8217;s director, Dr. Michael Rappa, presided over the ceremony, held at the Raleigh Convention Center, and was joined by members of the faculty and staff and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analytics.ncsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5294","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analytics.ncsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5294"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/analytics.ncsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26005,"href":"https:\/\/analytics.ncsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5294\/revisions\/26005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analytics.ncsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analytics.ncsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analytics.ncsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}