More than 676 degrees were conferred at the conclusion of Mississippi State University’s 2013 summer term. One Tunica County resident was among graduates.

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.

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