USJ Press Release – The University of Saint Joseph (USJ) hosted this morning the Ceremony of Commencement 2011, solemnly awarding c. 190 licentiate degrees. The ceremony took place at the Cathedral and was chaired by The Most Reverend Bishop of Macau, D. José Lai.  

USJ conferred licentiate degrees in Business Administration (69); Social Work (51); Government Studies (36); Psychology (24); Christian Studies (8) and Design (2).

Macau’s Cathedral was crowded with more than four hundred people, amongst graduands and their relatives; academics; and dozens of dignitaries and guests.

Last Saturday (Oct. 8) the University of Saint Joseph graduated six Doctors and 82 Masters, in a ceremony in which The Reverend Father Luís Sequeira SJ was awarded a Doctorate of Religious Studies Honoris Causa. In the same occasion, Professor Ruben de Freitas Cabral was inaugurated as Rector of the University for a new quadriennium.