Bridgewater State College
Degrees: Bachelor's, master's, certificate of advanced graduate study
Speaker: Paul Reville, state's secretary designate of education
Honorary degrees: Dr. Ann duCille, chairwoman of the English department at Wesleyan University
Fitchburg State College
Number of graduates: About 700
Degrees: bachelor's and master's
Speaker: Bert Jacobs, cofounder of Life is Good Inc.
Honorary degree: Jacobs
Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts (North Adams State College)
Number of graduates: 340
Degrees: bachelor's, master's, certificate of advanced graduate studies
Speaker: Senator John F. Kerry
Honorary degrees: Kerry; Arlindo Jorge, retired engineer and MCLA benefactor; Lola Jaffe, president of the board of directors for the Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center; and local educator Donald Pecor, class of '66.
Northern Essex Community College
Number of graduates: About 1,000
Degrees: Associate's and certificates
Speaker: Meredith Hall, best-selling author of "Without a Map"
Salem State College
Number of graduates: 7,700
Degrees: bachelor's
Speakers: Charles Ogletree, Harvard law professor
Westfield State College
Number of graduates: 1,039 undergraduate and 139 graduate students
Degrees: Bachelor's and master's
Speaker: Mike Scully, a founding producer for "The Simpsons"
Eastern Nazarene College
Number of graduates: About 220
Degrees: Associate's, bachelor's, and master's
Speaker: Dr. R. Franklin Cook, founder of "Holiness Today"
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Degrees: bachelor's, master's, and doctoral
Speaker: Jeffrey R. Immelt, chairman and CEO of
Honorary degrees: Immelt; Woodie C. Flowers, professor emeritus at MIT; Richard W. Lyman, president emeritus of Stanford University; Jing Lyman, social entrepreneur and founder, National Coalition for Women's Enterprise
Andover Newton Theological School
Number of graduates: About 70
Degrees: Master's in divinity, master's in arts, master's in sacred theology, and doctorates
Speaker: The Rev. Dr. Mary Luti, pastor of First Church in Cambridge and former associate dean at Andover Newton.
Simmons College
Number of graduates: 1,600
Speaker: Bianca Jagger, international human rights and environmental advocate
Honorary degrees: Jagger; Charlayne Hunter-Gault, journalist and author; Margot Stern Strom, executive director of Facing History and Ourselves; Craig Mello, 2006 Nobel Prize recipient for medicine; Marilyn Nelson, poet laureate of Connecticut and award-winning author; US Representative Allyson Schwartz of Pennsylvania.
Fisher College
Number of graduates: 260
Degrees: Associate's and bachelor's
Speaker: Roderick Fraser, commissioner of Boston Fire Department
Benjamin Franklin Institute of Technology
Number of graduates: 189
Degrees: Associate of science, engineering and bachelor of science, and one-year certificate of proficiency
Speaker: Vartan Gregorian, president of the Carnegie Corporation
Honorary degree: Gregorian
Bentley College
Number of graduates: About 1,550
Degrees: Bachelor's and master's
Speaker: John Mackey, chairman and CEO of
Honorary Degrees: Mackey
Anna Maria College
Number of graduates: 155 undergraduates, 110 for master's degrees
Degrees: Bachelor's and master's
Speaker: Justice Lynda Connolly, District Court judge in Boston
Honorary degrees: Connolly, Annette Rafferty of Abby House, Worcester
Boston Conservatory
Number of graduates: 168
Degrees: Bachelor's, master's, graduate performance diplomas, conservatory diploma, and artist diploma
Speaker: Susan Stroman, director and choreographer of "The Producers"
Honorary degrees: Stroman; distinguished Alumni Achievement Award to James Orleans, a Conservatory graduate who is currently a double bassist for the Boston Symphony Orchestra
Assumption College
Number of graduates: 714
Degrees: bachelor's and master's
Speaker: R. Nicholas Burns, former US undersecretary of state for political affairs
Honorary degrees: Burns; Sister Margaret Leonard, executive director of project HOPE in Roxbury; and Peter Deckers, dean of the University of Connecticut School of Medicine
Gordon College
Number of graduates: About 365
Degrees: Bachelor's, master's
Speaker: Dr. Rick Warren, author of "A Purpose Driven Life"
Honorary degrees: Warren
Hampshire College
Number of graduates: 260
Degrees: Bachelor of arts
Speaker: Dean Cycon, owner of Dean's Beans organic coffee company
Hellenic College - Holy Cross School of Theology
Number of graduates: 55
Degrees: Bachelor of arts and master's of theological studies, master's of theology, and master's of divinity
Speaker: Michael Jaharis
Honorary degrees: Jaharis and Mary (Spyros) Jaharis
Wheaton College
Number of graduates: About 380
Degrees: Bachelor of arts
Speaker: Katharine T. Bartlett, professor, Duke University Law School
