By Roger Bryner
Roger@newsroom.byu.edu
The Office of Admissions and Records has released the 'Highlights of the April 2000 Graduating Class.' These are the estimated statistics for graduates in April 2000.
Of the 4,213 graduates in April, 50.4 percent are male and 49.6 percent are female. The percentages appear almost equal, when considering gender. But when taking a look at individual colleges, these statistics become quite skewed.
In the David O. McKay School of Education, of the 301 graduates 279 are females. While in the college of Engineering and Technology, of the 289 graduates 262 are male. The college with the most evenly divided graduating class is Biology and Agriculture with 167 male graduates and 153 female graduates.
Julie Adamson, a BYU student graduating in audiology and speech-language pathology in the school of education, said the lack of men in her major is discouraging.
'It's not as fun when you don't get to meet any guys,' Adamson said. 'Of the five guys in my class, four are married, and the single guy is too short.'
Family, Home and Social Sciences has the largest number of graduates with 772. The college of Humanities is second with 444, and the Marriott School of Management is third with 433.
Krissy Swallow, graduating in family science, is excited to graduate but said she expects her graduation to take 'forever.'
The youngest graduate of April 2000 is 18-year-old William Arthur Taysom, who is graduating in mathematics.
The average GPA for baccalaureate degrees is 3.42.
Of the 4,213 degrees for April 2000, there are 3,567 bachelor's degrees, 503 master's degrees, and 143 doctorates.
The report also gave statistics on which states produced the most graduates. Utah has the highest amount with 25.9 percent of the graduating class, while California comes in second with 15.1 percent and Idaho was third with 6.6 percent.
Graduates are from 49 states, two territories and 48 foreign countries.
Commencement exercises will begin on April 20, at 4 p.m. in the Marriott Center.
Convocations on April 21 for each college are as follows:
Biology and Agriculture 10:30 a.m. Ballroom, Wilkinson Ctr.;
Engineering and Technology 10:30 a.m., Smith Fieldhouse;
Family, Home, and Social Sciences 1 p.m., Marriott Center;
Communications Dept. and Theatre Media Arts 10:30 a.m., de Jong Concert Hall, Harris Fine Arts Ctr.;
Music Dance Theatre Prg, School of Music, and Visual Arts 8 a.m., de Jong Concert Hall, Harris Fine Arts Ctr.;
Health and Human Performance 1 p.m., Smith Fieldhouse;
Humanities 10:30 a.m., Marriott Center;
Nursing 10:30 a.m., Auditorium Joseph Smith Building;
Physical and Mathematical Sciences 8 a.m., Ballroom, Wilkinson Student Center;
J. Reuben Clark Law School 1 p.m., Provo Tabernacle;
Marriott School of Management 8 a.m., Marriott Center;
David O. McKay School of Education 8 a.m., Smith Feildhouse;
David M. Kennedy Center for International Studies 8 a.m., Auditorium, Joseph Smith Building.