About 2,000 University of Dayton students - the most ever in any one semester - received degrees when they crossed the stage in three separate ceremonies last weekend.

A projected 1,460 students received undergraduate degrees on Sunday, May 6. More than 350 students received graduate degrees on Saturday, May 5, following a separate commencement ceremony for nearly 180 law school graduates.

Combined with degrees granted earlier this academic year in August and December, about 2,900 Flyers earned degrees, a record for one academic year.

Ninety-five percent of spring 2011 undergraduates responding to an office of career services survey reported being employed, pursuing an advanced degree or participating in a service program within six months. Each of the University's four schools offering undergraduate degrees - engineering, education and allied professions, business, and arts and sciences - had a 93 percent success rate or better.