Several local students were among the nearly 2,000 who met the requirements for certificates, associate, bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral degrees at Ferris State University and Kendall College of Art and Design during the semester that ended May 2014.

Here are the names of the students, sorted by their hometown:

Niles — Tyler Weedon, Samuel Whittaker, Megan Haynes, Stephanie Daus, Matthew Smith, Destiny Carbon, Sharon Everman, David Schoenleber, Nicole Hunt and Steven Phillips

Buchanan — Joshua Newberg, David Baltazar and Ashley Flamion

Edwardsburg — Calvin Hall

Dowagiac — Caitlin Courtney, Shelby Willis, Caitlin Gibson-Higgins and Kristan Stelmasiak