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Congratulations
Class of 2024!

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Photos from Commencement 2024

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Karen Kim, dean of Penn State College of Medicine, gestures while speaking at commencement

Penn State President Neeli Bendapudi looks off to the right and smiles while speaking behind a lectern with a Penn State shield banner on the front of it

Dr. Howard Koh raises both hands in the air as he speaks behind a lectern during commencment; faculty sit in chairs behind

A graduate student to the left looks and smiles at a faculty member to the right as she prepares to be hooded; another faculty member smiles in the center

Dr. Leslie Parent speaks behind a lectern with a Penn State shield banner on it

A medical student smiles while being a hooded by a faculty member

A medical student smiles a waves while being hooded by a faculty member

A physician assistant student smiles while a faculty member hoods him

About Our Class

266 total graduates

MD – 135
MD/PhD – 6
MD/MPH – 2
PhD – 28
DrPH – 6
MPH – 42
MPS – 9
MS – 8
PA – 30

52% of graduate students focused on public health

92 total student awards

53 countries represented

32% of residents staying at Penn State Health

29 Alpha Omega Alpha members

16 Gold Humanism Society members

Learn more about the MD Class of 2024 at the Match Day website