Hunter College expects more than 3,300 graduates will crowd its May 30 at its 228th Commencement at Brooklyn’s Barclays Center.
All told, however, the college will confer more than 5,500 bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral degrees upon graduates in fields from education, nursing, and health professions to social work and urban policy.
Here’s a look at the Class of 2025 by the numbers of degree recipients from each Hunter school (119 students are to receive a degree from both the School of Arts & Sciences and the School of Education and are counted in each tally). Because Hunter only holds a May commencement, the numbers encompass graduates from the fall through the summer semesters:
- Arts & Sciences - 3,867
- Hunter-Bellevue School of Nursing - 330
- School of Education - 897
- School of Health Professions - 127
- Silberman School of Social Work - 653
Activist, educator, and public intellectual Loretta J. Ross will deliver the keynote address at the 3 pm Barclays ceremony. The college will bestow an honorary degree on Ross, the author of the 2025 book Calling In: How to Start Making Change with Those You'd Rather Cancel (Simon & Schuster). Ross spoke about the book at Hunter as part of the “Civil Discourse and Intellectual Dialogue” series in February.
Distinguished civic leader Ronay Menschel also will receive an honorary degree. Menschel, president of the Charina Endowment Fund, has been a staunch supporter of CUNY’s efforts to boost the career outcomes of graduates, providing $1.5 million to the CUNY Office of Careers and Industry Partnerships and Hunter College since 2022. The fund also contributed to the Chancellor’s Emergency Relief Fund in 2020.
