Commencement 2022

May 16, 2022

Penn’s 266th Commencement honored the Class of 2022 at Franklin Field, celebrating more than 6,000 undergraduate and graduate students. A total of 6,533 diplomas were conferred, with 2,370 being traditional undergraduate degrees and the remaining balance belonging to graduate degrees, dual degrees, or submatriculations. Eight people received honorary degrees: scholar Mary Frances Berry; documentary filmmaker and Commencement speaker Ken Burns; surgeon and writer Atul Gawande; former Penn President and U.S. Ambassador to Germany Amy Gutmann, 14th Librarian of Congress Carla D. Hayden; composer George E. Lewis, former chief justice of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts Margaret H. Marshall; and theoretical physicist Edward Witten.

Penn Today news story including video.

See also Penn President Flickr gallery and Instagram.

See also Penn Communications Flickr gallery.

Photographs by Eddy Marenco.