M State congratulates Fergus Falls graduates at spring commencement

M State recognized Fergus Falls graduates on May 14, the same day the college’s spring semester ended, as part of a four-campus commencement run that moved from Detroit Lakes to Moorhead, Fergus Falls and Wadena in four straight days. Summer 2026 graduates who wanted to join the spring ceremony had to apply by March 13, and the next round of general education and online summer courses was set to begin June 1.

The Fergus Falls campus has spent more than 60 years offering academic programs in liberal arts and health services, a base that continues to shape the local workforce pipeline in Otter Tail County and west central Minnesota. M State says the campus’s current program mix includes Psychology Transfer Pathway, Accounting Transfer Pathway, Associate Degree Nursing and Business Transfer Pathway, a combination that sends some students directly toward health care jobs while preparing others to transfer into additional study.

M State says it offers more than 70 career and liberal arts programs and enrolls more than 7,000 students each year. The Fergus Falls ceremony was one part of that broader system, which includes the Detroit Lakes, Fergus Falls, Moorhead and Wadena campuses and traces its creation to July 1, 2003, when Fergus Falls Community College and the three Northwest Technical College campuses were merged into Minnesota State Community and Technical College.

That history was visible in the spring graduation schedule itself. The college’s four-campus ceremony cycle put Detroit Lakes first on May 12, followed by Moorhead on May 13, Fergus Falls on May 14 and Wadena on May 15, underscoring how the institution now operates across west central Minnesota even as each campus keeps its own local identity. For Fergus Falls, the result is a graduation milestone tied closely to health care, business and transfer-bound programs that have long anchored the campus in the county it serves.