NewsOctober 7, 2020

Southeast Missouri State University on Tuesday announced its summer 2020 graduates, with 8.8% from outside the United States. A total of 341 students are the most recent to obtain degrees from the four-year institution: 257 (75%) are from Missouri, 31 from Illinois and five from Tennessee...

Southeast Missouri State University on Tuesday announced its summer 2020 graduates, with 8.8% from outside the United States.

A total of 341 students are the most recent to obtain degrees from the four-year institution: 257 (75%) are from Missouri, 31 from Illinois and five from Tennessee.

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Southeast, led since July 2015 by president Carlos Vargas, a naturalized U.S. citizen originally from Mexico City, had 30 international graduates from 13 countries represented.

One-third of the non-U.S. graduates hail from Saudi Arabia.

  • Saudi Arabia, 10
  • India, 5
  • China, 4
  • Nepal, 2
  • Bulgaria, France, Sri Lanka, Congo, Romania, Kenya, Bangladesh, Japan, Myanmar, 1 each.
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