Uploaded May 2023 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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NYU celebrated the Class of 2023 with its 190th Commencement exercises at Yankee Stadium on Wednesday, May 17 at 11 a.m. Some 13,000 students receiving undergraduate, graduate, and professional degrees and more than 26,000 family, friends, alumni, faculty, and other NYU community members attended the ceremony.

Honorary degree recipients included Nobel-winning chemist Carolyn Bertozzi, ABT principal dancer Misty Copeland, UMBC President Emeritus Freeman A. Hrabowski, and Finland’s Prime Minister Sanna Marin, who spoke on behalf of all the honorees.