It’s commencement season again, a time to celebrate our graduates’ hard work: classes attended, papers written, projects completed, ideas encountered, dreams brought closer to fruition. All of it culminates in the ceremony taking place on Eddies on May 16.
How to measure all that this year’s graduates have achieved? We can start, at least, by counting the degrees they earned. Here’s a look at the Class of 2026 by the numbers:*
Fordham will confer bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral degrees upon 3,613 May graduates in fields ranging from accounting to visual arts, physics, and more.
Including students who graduated in August 2025 and February 2026 and those who are expected to graduate in August 2026, the University will confer about 5,682 academic degrees in all.
Below are the numbers of May 2026 degree recipients from each of Fordham’s schools.
Degree Recipients by School
| Fordham College at Rose Hill | 792 |
| Fordham at Lincoln Center | 446 |
| Gabelli School of Business (graduate) | 384 |
| Gabelli School of Business (undergraduate) | 699 |
| Graduate School of Arts and Sciences | 145 |
| Graduate School of Education | 218 |
| Graduate School of Social Service | 315 |
| School of Law | 533 |
| School of Professional and Continuing Studies (undergraduate) | 56 |
| School of Professional and Continuing Studies (graduate) | 25 |
| Veterans/dependents/active military graduating (approximately) | 120 |
*As of April 24
