Sara Swann Graduates from Mercer University

Sara E. Swann earned a Master of Education in secondary education from the Tift College of Education of Mercer University during the spring commencement ceremony on the University's Atlanta Campus. It was the first campus-wide outdoor commencement held at the Cecil B. Day Graduate and Professional Campus.

The ceremony included more than 6,000 attendees, and more than 1,000 participants from the College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, the Georgia Baptist College of Nursing, the James and Carolyn McAfee School of Theology, the Eugene W. Stetson School of Business and Economics, Tift College of Education and College of Continuing and Professional Studies.

In all, the University held four ceremonies in the spring in Macon and Atlanta and conferred more than 1,700 bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees.

About Mercer University:

Founded in 1833, Mercer University is a dynamic and comprehensive center of undergraduate, graduate and professional education. The University enrolls more than 8,200 students in 11 schools and colleges – liberal arts, law, pharmacy, medicine, business, engineering, education, theology, music, nursing and continuing and professional studies – on major campuses in Macon, Atlanta and Savannah and at four regional academic centers across the state. Mercer is affiliated with two teaching hospitals - Memorial University Medical Center in Savannah and the Medical Center of Central Georgia in Macon, and has educational partnerships with Warner Robins Air Logistics Center in Warner Robins and Piedmont Healthcare in Atlanta. The University operates an academic press and a performing arts center in Macon and an engineering research center in Warner Robins. Mercer is the only private university in Georgia to field an NCAA Division I athletic program. For more information, visit www.mercer.edu.