Spring 2024 Commencement at MTSU

Murphy Athletic Center

Murfreesboro, Tennessee

Friday, May 3

Time: 3 p.m. Central

Ceremony for the College of Behavioral and Health Sciences and College of Liberal Arts. This ceremony includes all master’s, doctoral and undergraduate degree candidates.

Speaker:

Dr. Cary Holman

Dr. Cary E. Holman, MTSU alumnus and director of the Franklin County School District. Previously Holman served as a middle school principal at two different schools in the Rutherford County School System for 17 years. Now in his 28th year in education, Holman has served as a classroom teacher (first, fifth, and sixth grades), assistant principal, elementary principal, middle school at-risk coordinator, middle school principal, and adjunct faculty member at Draughons Junior College and MTSU.

Saturday, May 4

Time: 9 a.m. Central

State Rep. Bob Freeman

Ceremony for the College of Basic and Applied Sciences and University College. This ceremony includes all master’s, education specialist, doctoral and undergraduate degree candidates.

Speaker:

Bob Freeman, MTSU alumnus, president of real estate company Freeman Webb and Tennessee state representative for District 56. Freeman was born and raised in the Tennessee House district he now represents. During the day, he serves as president of Freeman Webb, a full-service real estate company. He graduated from MTSU with a degree in construction management and land development and went on to earn his master’s at Lipscomb University’s Institute for Sustainable Practice.

Time: 2 p.m. Central

Ceremony for the Jones College of Business, College of Education, and College of Media and Entertainment. This ceremony includes all master’s, education specialist, doctoral and undergraduate degree candidates.

Speaker:

Michael Hardy

Michael Hardy, MTSU alumnus and country/rock singer-songwriter known professionally as HARDY. Hardy is a five-time Academy of Country Music award winner and two-time Country Music Association award winner. HARDY has also won three CMA Triple Play awards, was named the 2022 BMI Country Songwriter of the Year, and is a three-time Association for Independent Music Publishers Songwriter of the Year.

Middle Tennessee State University’s Class of 2023 graduates smile broadly after receiving their diplomas during fall commencement ceremonies held at Murphy Center. (MTSU photo)

More information for ALL students receiving degrees is available here.

WATCH LIVE:

MTSU’s spring 2024 commencement ceremonies will air live via streaming video at www.mtsu.edu/live, https://facebook.com/mtsublueraiders and http://mtsu.edu/trueblueTV  and on local cable channels at http://mtsu.edu/trueblueTV.

You also can click on the photo above to watch the livestreams. The streams will begin about 15 minutes before the ceremony starts.

GRADUATION MISC.:

Complete news coverage, including a video and photos, from MTSU’s fall 2023 commencement ceremony is available here. Spring 2024 commencement coverage will be posted after those ceremonies.

After receiving the final list of graduates from the Registrar’s Office, the Office of News and Media Relations routes that list through the Merit student achievement platform for publication of all graduates on MTSU’s Merit page and creation of news releases that are distributed to the hometown media for U.S.-based students. Graduates will also be notified via email when their commencement achievement is posted to Merit, and the achievement can then be shared by graduates to their social media accounts as they choose.

Merit is available to all enrolled MTSU students and is still accessible by students after graduation to share post-graduation achievements. Learn more about Merit.

Byron Bankhead, who earned a Bachelor of Social Work, holds up his diploma as he walks across the stage at Murphy Center during the Class of 2023 fall commencement ceremonies. MTSU presented more than 1,761 undergrad and graduate degrees to students in two ceremonies held Dec. 16. (MTSU photo by Cat Curtis Murphy)