Mississippi State University recently released its Summer 2017 graduation list.
Honor graduates include all bachelor-degree candidates with exceptional scholastic averages and at least half the total required course hours earned at MSU. Their specific levels of recognition and the minimum required averages for each, based on a 4.0 scale, include: summa cum laude, 3.80; magna cum laude, 3.60; and cum laude, 3.40.
Local students include Leigh Bell, Bentonia, Bagley College of Engineering, BS; and Stephen Pettis, Bentonia, College of Education, BS.
