70.73% of the graduates in the Pontifical Madre y Maestra Catholic University (PUCMM) 63rd commencement ceremony on Saturday, 9 September 2017 were women, continuing the trend that began many years ago. Of the 1,107 new graduates, 783 were women and 324 men.
The commencement marked the 55th anniversary of the largest private university in the Dominican Republic. Attending was Education Minister Andrés Navarro, among others.
Of the 1,107 graduates, 664 were undergraduate students and 443 graduate students. Rector Father Alfredo de la Cruz Baldera said that throughout its first five decades of service, the university has graduated 81,125 men and women. Of these 53,216 have studied at the Santiago campus and 27,910 at the Santo Domingo campus.
The keynote speech was by Dr. Gabriel García Martínez, coordinator of the Master in Corporate Social Responsibility of the Valencia Polytechnical University in Valencia, Spain. He was invited given that it was the first graduation of the masters in corporate social responsibility and sustainability of by the university, a joint program with the Spanish university.
11 September 2017
