LEBANON, ILLINOIS (May 19, 2025) — Donovan Isaiah Rogers of Rock Island, Ill., has graduated from McKendree University with a Bachelor of Business Administration degree in business administration.

The university is conferring an anticipated total of 701 degrees in 2025 — 24 doctoral, 288 Master's, 439 Bachelor's, and ten specialist degrees — on students who completed their program requirements in December 2024, and are projected to complete their program requirements in May and July 2025. A total of 129 students graduated with Latin honors (pending final grades for the spring and summer terms): Thirty summa cum laude, 58 magna cum laude, and 43 cum laude.

Eighteen of these students completed the university's Honors Program. The McKendree University Class of 2025 hails from 29 states and seventeen countries and territories. #McK2025

Founded in 1828, McKendree University's historic Lebanon, Illinois, campus is 25 miles from St Louis, Missouri, McKendree also offers degree programs online and is one of US News' "Best Regional Universities," "Best Value Schools," and "Best Colleges for Veterans" in the Midwest.

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