How to Use summa cum laude in a Sentence

summa cum laude

adverb or adjective

• Now, the top 5% of the class graduates summa cum laude, the next 8% magna and the next 12% cum laude.
  — Melissa Korn, WSJ, 2 July 2018
• For the record, graduating in three years summa cum laude is a very Ben Gross thing to do.
  — Dallas News, 10 Aug. 2022
• That means that students with a GPA of 4.25 or higher will graduate summa cum laude.
  — Natalie Dreier, ajc, 15 June 2018
• That doesn’t mean students who don’t test well can’t succeed, or that students with high scores are guaranteed to graduate summa cum laude.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 1 July 2018
• The couple met at the University of Pennsylvania, from which the bride graduated summa cum laude and received a law degree, and the groom received a law degree.
  — New York Times, 11 Mar. 2018
• Three of its former employees graduated from college, one of them summa cum laude.
  — Crocker Stephenson, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 3 July 2018
• The groom is a summa cum laude graduate of Hendrix College with bachelor's degrees in economics and business.
  — Cary Jenkins, Arkansas Online, 23 Oct. 2022
• Logan Baumann earned his bachelor's degree, summa cum laude, in economics from U of L.
  — Stephanie Kuzydym, The Courier-Journal, 29 Dec. 2022
• Wrembel is a 2002 summa cum laude graduate of Boston’s prestigious Berklee College of Music.
  — George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Jan. 2022
• The school cited mental health as a reason for the change and will still offer the Latin distinctions of summa cum laude, magna cum laude and cum laude in an effort to encourage high achievement without as much pressure and competition.
  — Rachel Berry, Cincinnati.com, 12 June 2019
• McKellar graduated summa cum laude with a BS in mathematics in 1998.
  — Alexandra Schonfeld, Peoplemag, 17 Aug. 2022
• While this is the first time the school didn’t honor a valedictorian or salutatorian, 24 students graduated summa cum laude, nine students magna cum laude and 10 cum laude.
  — John Benson, cleveland, 6 June 2022
• Hertz graduated summa cum laude in May with a degree in marketing and a 3.97 cumulative grade-point average.
  — Pat Stoetzer, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 29 July 2019
• Yates completed a bachelor’s degree in English from UT Dallas and graduated summa cum laude in 1978.
  — Teri Webster, Dallas News, 14 June 2021
• Bryce graduated summa cum laude from Iowa State University in 2020 with a double major in journalism and Spanish.
  — Bryce Jones, Better Homes & Gardens, 31 July 2022
• Zachary Lang, a summa cum laude graduate from Dartmouth College, will pursue a bachelor's in philosophy at Oxford.
  — Michael T. Nietzel, Forbes, 13 Nov. 2023
• At 19, Harold graduated from college, summa cum laude, with a Bachelor of Science degree in organic chemistry.
  — Jerry Large, The Seattle Times, 18 Mar. 2018
• If the candidate graduated summa cum laude from a top university, that may offer a workable proxy for the abilities needed, in a vacuum of information.
  — WSJ, 26 Oct. 2021
• Viveka majored in horticulture with a minor in English, graduating summa cum laude.
  — Viveka Neveln, Better Homes & Gardens, 30 July 2022
• Yellen, who graduated summa cum laude from Brown University and earned a doctorate in economics from Yale University, also can be prescient.
  — Paul Davidson, USA TODAY, 25 Jan. 2021
• Ian Ross of Coronado, Bachelor of Arts degree, political science, summa cum laude.
  — Laura Groch, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Aug. 2020
• The Ohio native has founded many multibillion-dollar tech and health care companies after graduating summa cum laude from Harvard and receiving a law degree from Yale, according to his biography page on Strive.com.
  — Virginia Chamlee, Peoplemag, 16 Jan. 2024
• Senior receiver Colt Morgan graduated summa cum laude from Wooster High.
  — Terry Pluto, cleveland, 22 Nov. 2019
• Lynch graduated summa cum laude from Regis College, continuing her studies during long stretches in the hospital.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 12 Apr. 2023
• Hough graduated summa cum laude from the University of Alabama with bachelor’s and master’s degrees in accounting.
  — William Thornton | [e-mail], al, 4 Aug. 2023
• Kuwik graduated summa cum laude from Notre Dame with a Mechanical Engineering degree.
  — Akeem Glaspie, The Indianapolis Star, 29 Mar. 2023
• Corrao spent most of her life in Minneapolis, attending the University of Minnesota as a struggling single parent and graduating summa cum laude.
  — Rachel Hutton, Star Tribune, 5 Sep. 2020
• Always a stellar student, Grotjan graduated summa cum laude from her hometown University of Buffalo in 1939.
  — Maya Wei-Haas, Smithsonian, 5 Oct. 2017
• Education Katie graduated summa cum laude from The University of Georgia with a degree in journalism, a minor in sociology, and a certificate in new media.
  — Katie Strasberg Rousso, Southern Living, 28 June 2023
• Jacobs graduated summa cum laude with a bachelor of arts in art history and holds a master of social science in cultural anthropology and history from the University of Colorado.
  — Scott Huddleston, ExpressNews.com, 7 Oct. 2020

Last Updated: 13 Sep 2024