This Friday, April 25, two of the youngest graduates in SEU history will cross the stage at the RP Funding Center during our Spring 2025 Commencement ceremony, beginning at 5:30 p.m.
Meet the Record-Setting Graduates
The record-breaking graduates are siblings Joshua and Kaitlyn Ostergaard. In the spring of 2024, Joshua first made history as one of SEU’s youngest graduates to receive a bachelor’s degree at the age of 17. During the ceremony this Friday, Kaitlyn will officially beat this record by earning a bachelor’s degree at just 16 years old.
Joshua will be setting a new record as one of the university’s youngest graduates to earn a master’s degree at 18 years old. He will begin law school in the fall, and be on track to become a practicing attorney by his 21st birthday.
Kaitlyn also has plans to continue her education by pursuing a master’s degree in marketing at Arizona State University.
The Spring Class of 2025
The spring class of 2025 is our 89th graduating class. With a total of 1,031 graduates, the class brings the total number of SEU graduates to 26,285.
Our graduates originate from Florida, 48 other states, and 22 countries, including the Bahamas, Brazil, Columbia, Germany, Ghana, Italy, Kenya, and Nigeria. In addition, over 480 of the graduates come from 79 of our partner sites.
Get to Know the Commencement Speaker
The ceremony will feature guest speaker Luke Barnett, senior pastor of Dream City Church, which includes eleven campuses and a church body of over 20,000 people. Barnett is an author and international speaker who has written “The Dream Centered Life” and “Adventure Your Life.”
Barnett is also a passionate advocate for human sex trafficking rescue and humanitarian relief, and has led the outreach efforts of Dream City Church to expand locally, regionally, and globally through ministries such as Thrive, Where Hope Lives, Streetlight USA, Mom’s Pantry, The Dream Centers, and many others.
He has mentored thousands of pastors and business leaders through Dream City Church’s annual “Dream Conference,” which has been responsible for the training of over 200,000 pastors and leaders over the past 42 years.
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