Nearly half a thousand Master's students and 60 doctoral students, accompanied by their family members and friends, filled the auditorium at the Palace of Arts in Budapest, as Central European University (CEU) conferred graduate degrees on the CEU class of 2019. Among these, 48 candidates for the Masters' degrees from the School of Public Policy (SPP) and several doctoral candidates graduating from the Public Policy track of the Doctoral School of Political Science, Public Policy and International Relations contributed to the university's 28th graduating class.