Graduation Day
Advancing the community and transforming lives, 5,000 graduates at a time In 2022, more than 2,000 students graduated from Columbus State with two-year associate degrees, and even more students earned shorter-term industry-recognized certificates. In total, the college helped prepare nearly 5,000 students last year to launch or advance great careers in high-demand fields that keep the regional economy strong.
An impressive 81% of Columbus State alums remain in Central Ohio to live, work, and contribute positively to their communities while fueling growth in industries like information technology, engineering technology and advanced manufacturing, supply chain management and logistics, construction and skilled trades, health sciences, and more.
Commencement Spring 2023
College Credit Plus grads
A record 55 College Credit Plus students graduated from both high school and Columbus State in May 2023. College Credit Plus allows Ohio students to earn college and high school credits at the same time at no cost to families.
Tracking Toward Success
Columbus State and Huntington Bank celebrated the first graduating class of Huntington Exact Track students, three years after the launch of the unique employer-funded partnership. Eighteen Exact Track students earned Associate of Applied Science in Business Management degrees at Columbus State’s 2022 Spring Commencement.
A partnership between Columbus State, Franklin University, and Huntington Bank, Exact Track is an online program in which students earn both associate and bachelor’s degrees in one seamless course sequence. Huntington provides “pre-imbursement” funding up front for all participants, eliminating the need to borrow for college.
Huntington associates: Talk to your HR department about the ExactTrack program.