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Meet the class of 2025

Graduates by the numbers

More than 6,800 Tar Heels, including undergraduate, graduate and professional students, had their Carolina degrees conferred at Spring Commencement on May 10. More than 5,000 of those students are North Carolina residents.

The Class of 2025 excelled in the classroom, conducted research, won national championships and served their country. They've made lasting impacts on our campus community and left their heelprints on Carolina.

  • 6,829total graduates, including professional and certificate degrees
  • 4,358undergraduates
  • 1,487master's degree candidates
  • 962students receiving doctoral degrees
  • 779first-generation students
  • 422Covenant scholars

Meet the graduates

Click on a photo below to get to know our Class of 2025 and learn more about their paths to Commencement.

Class of 2025 accolades

‘We’ve got your back’

Carolina honored nearly 600 doctoral graduates at the doctoral hooding ceremony Saturday, May 10 the Dean E. Smith Center. Don Baucom ’71, ’76 (PhD), a distinguished professor emeritus in the psychology and neuroscience department of the UNC College of Arts and Sciences, gave the ceremony a new slogan in his keynote address.

Read more about the ceremony.

A doctoral graduate is hooded while holding her baby on stage at the doctoral hooding ceremony

They capture memories for graduating Tar Heels

Making graduation photos for classmates is a fun but busy endeavor for student photographers like Heather Diehl and Samantha Lewis.

Read more about their work and go behind the scenes of how the photos come together.

A photographer helps a graduate straighten their cap before taking photos at the Bell Tower.

Students-turned-faculty offer advice to the Class of 2025

Who better to ask for tips than current faculty members who once donned the Carolina Blue cap and gown themselves?

Check out 10 tips UNC-Chapel Hill professors shared when they pulled up a share with University photographer Johnny Andrews.

Dr. John Vavalle and Emily Sickbert-Bennett Vavalle sit together in a blue chair on Carolina's campus

Top 10 majors

Carolina’s 4,358 undergraduates in the Class of 2025 took varying paths to graduation. One experience they shared was the countless hours in the classroom, studying to master their fields and prepare for meaningful careers.

Learn which majors were most popular among the newest class of graduates.

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Cherished memories

In this video, Chancellor Lee H. Roberts congratulates the Class of 2025, and seniors talk about the people, places and campus life experiences they’ll miss most when they leave Chapel Hill.

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Picture time for the Class of 2025

With Spring Commencement fast approaching, Carolina's campus is busy with soon-to-be graduates taking photos in their caps and gowns. From the Old Well to the Bell Tower and everywhere in between, the Class of 2025 is smiling for the camera.

Photos by Johnny Andrews and Jon Gardiner, University Communications

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