Storrs Agricultural School (1881-1893)
Storrs Agricultural College (1893-1899)
Connecticut Agricultural College (1899-1933)
Connecticut State College (1933-1939)
University of Connecticut
While still known as
Connecticut Agricultural College, the University of Connecticut
awarded its first master's degree in 1920 to Domingo B. Paguirigan, an Asian
student from the Philippines. During the next two decades, 60 more master's degrees
were awarded. The Graduate School was established in 1940, and first lead by Nathan
L. Whetten.
The first Ph.D.'s were awarded in 1949, and for the next 18 years,
graduate degrees were conferred in the same ceremony as that of undergraduate
degrees.
With the growth of the student body in the 1960s, a separate
advanced degree ceremony was held for the first time in 1967, combining
graduates of the Graduate School and the School of Law. In 1972,
the first degree recipients from the Schools of Medicine and Dental
Medicine joined the ceremony, then in 1973, the School of Law established
its own separate ceremony.
Until 1980, all ceremonies were held at the main campus of the
University in Storrs. Beginning in 1980, the ceremony for
the School of Law moved to its campus in Hartford, and that of the
Schools of Medicine and Dental Medicine moved to the UConn Health
Center in Farmington.
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