Ewha Womans University held the 2024 Fall commencement ceremony on August 29 at the Welch-Ryang Auditorium for a total of 2,280 graduates, including 1,142 bachelor’s, 1,003 master’s, and 135 doctoral degree recipients. The ceremony was attended by over 2,000 graduates and distinguished guests, including Chairperson Chang Myong-Sue of the Ewha Womans University Board of Trustees, President Hyang-Sook Lee, and President Lee Myung Kyung of the Ewha Alumnae Association. Families of the graduates celebrated the event through the livestream in waiting rooms prepared at Emerson Chapel and the Ewha Campus Complex.
In her speech, President Hyang-Sook Lee emphasized that “small beginnings can change the world,” discussing the entrepreneurial example of Steve Jobs and the founding spirit of Mary Scranton as she first paved the way for Ewha. She went on to speak of Ewha’s beginnings as Korea’s first educational institution for women and its evolution into a global leader in women’s education ever since. She urged the graduates to “embrace Ewha’s spirit of innovative and insightful values and grow into bold leaders who put the principles of sharing and service into practice.”
Among the graduates, a particular standout was Hyesong Choi, a doctorate degree recipient from the Division of Artificial Intelligence and Software. After graduating from the Department of Content Convergence at Ewha, she entered the integrated master’s and doctoral course at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering in 2020 and earned a doctorate degree by completing the course in five years and six months. She has now been appointed as the youngest full-time faculty member of the Department of Electronics and Information Engineering at Soongsil University, starting from this fall semester. Recognized for her research achievements in visual artificial intelligence and computer vision, she stated, “It was with the support of my alma mater that I was able to join the Soongsil University faculty.”
The ceremony included many other meaningful cases, such as three students with disabilities and one North Korean defector earning bachelor’s degrees, and a total of 209 international students earning their degrees (82 bachelor’s, 112 master’s, and 15 doctoral degree recipients). In particular, Ewha’s global achievements were highlighted by the graduation of six participants (three bachelor’s and three master’s degree recipients) under the Ewha Global Partnership Program (EGPP), a full-tuition scholarship program for talented women from developing countries.
