Kentucky’s public and private colleges and universities awarded a record number of degrees during the 2015-16 academic year.
A report from the Council on Postsecondary Education says Kentucky’s higher education institutions conferred 65,829 degrees--a 2.7 percent increase over the previous year.
The number represents a 32.5 percent increase over the amount of degrees awarded over ten years in the commonwealth.
Murray State and Morehead State had the highest increase in bachelor degree production, with the schools awarding 12 percent more degrees in the 2015-16 academic year. The University of Kentucky conferred 4 percent more.
Western Kentucky University saw a four percent increase in that same time.
Over the past decade, the Kentucky Community and Technical College System saw a 49 percent increase in the number of associate degrees it awarded.
