Speakers' names appear in italics.
| Date | Name | Title | Degree Received |
| 1902 (Jun 23) | Quincy, Josiah H. | None | |
| 1903 | Parker, Hon. Herbert W. | Attorney General, Massachusetts | None |
| 1904 (Jun 6) | Hammond, John Wilkes | Associate Justice, Supreme Judicial Court, Massachusetts | None |
| 1905 (Jun 7) | Richardson, Hon. James B. | Associate Justice, Superior Court, Massachusetts | None |
| 1906 (Jun 6) | Fessenden, Franklin G. | Judge, Superior Court, Massachusetts | None |
| 1907 (Jun 5) | Sheldon, Henry Newton | None | |
| 1908 (Jun 10) | Long, John Davis | None | |
| 1909 (Jun 9) | Zueblin, Charles | None | |
| 1910 (Jun 15) | Guild, Curtis, Jr. | None | |
| 1911 | Frothingham, Louis Adams | Lieutenant Governor, Massachusetts | None |
| 1912 (Jun 19) | Hall, Granville Stanley | None | |
| 1913 (Jun 18) | Martin, George H. | None | |
| 1914 (Jun 12) | Speare, Frank Palmer | Dean, School of Law, Northeastern College | None |
| 1914 (Jun 18) | Hurlburt, Henry F. | None | |
| 1915 (Jun 3) | Speare, Frank Palmer | Dean, School of Law, Northeastern College | None |
| 1915 (Jun 16) | Powers, Samuel L. | None | |
| 1916 (Jun 19) | Parker, Herbert W. | None | |
| 1916 (Jun 20) | Smith, George Sumner, Esq. | ||
| 1917 (Jun 13) | Smith, Hon. Dr. Payson | Commissioner of Education, Massachusetts | None |
| 1918 (Jun 12) | Cushing, Grafton Dulany | Ex-Lieutenant Governor, Massachusetts | None |
| 1919 (Jun 11) | Cox, Channing Harris | Lieutenant Governor, Massachusetts | None |
| 1920 (Jun 16) | Fish, Frederick Perry | Ex-Chairman, State Board of Education, Massachusetts | None |
| 1921 (Jun 15) | Aley, Robert Judson | President, University of Maine | None |
| 1921 (Jun 15) | Speare, Frank Palmer | President, Northeastern College | Law |
| 1922 (Jun 21) | Brown, Charles Reynolds | None | |
| 1922 (Jun 21) | Smith, George Sumner | Commerce & Finance | |
| 1923 (Jun 20) | Smith, Payson | None | |
| 1924 (Jun 18) | Cutten, George Barton | President, Colgate University | None |
| 1925 (Jun 15) | Leavitt, Ashley Day | Minister, Harvard Church, Brookline, Massachusetts | None |
| 1926 (Jun 21) | Thomas, Augustus O. | Education Commissioner, Maine; President, World Federation of Educational Associations | None |
| 1927 (Jun 20) | McConaughy, James L. | President, Wesleyan University | None |
| 1928 (Jun 20) | Smith, Payson | Commissioner of Education, Massachusetts | None |
| 1929 (Jun 19) | McConnell, Francis John | Bishop, Methodist Episcopal Church; President, Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America | None |
| 1930 (Jun 16) | Sockman, Ralph Washington | None | |
| 1931 (Jun 15) | Ballantine, Arthur Atwood | Doctor of Laws | |
| 1931 (Jun 15) | Eddy, Harrison Prescott | Doctor of Engineering | |
| 1931 (Jun 15) | Lewis, Edward Morgan | Doctor of Laws | |
| 1931 (Jun 15) | Speare, Frank Palmer | President, Northeastern University | Doctor of Laws |
| 1932 (Jun 20) | Stafford, Russell Henry | None | |
| 1932 (Jun 20) | Bressler, Raymond George | Doctor of Laws | |
| 1932 (Jun 20) | Gow, Charles Rice | Doctor of Engineering | |
| 1932 (Jun 20) | Richards, James Lorin | Doctor of Laws | |
| 1933 (Jun 19) | Moody, Paul Dwight | Doctor of Laws | |
| 1933 (Jun 19) | Harriman, Henry Ingraham | Doctor of Laws | |
| 1933 (Jun 19) | Lummus, Henry Tilton | Doctor of Laws | |
| 1934 (Jun 19) | Smith, Hon. Dr. Payson | Commissioner of Education, Massachusetts | Doctor of Laws |
| 1934 (Jun 19) | Bullard, Frederic Lauriston | Doctor of Literature | |
| 1934 (Jun 19) | Kimball, Dexter Simpson | Doctor of Engineering | |
| 1935 (Jun 18) | Rogers, Harry Stanley | President, Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn | Doctor of Science |
| 1935 (Jun 18) | Dennett, Carl Pullen | Doctor of Laws | |
| 1935 (Jun 18) | Main, Charles Thomas | Doctor of Engineering | |
| 1935 (Jun 18) | Miner, Edward Fuller | Master of Arts | |
| 1935 (Jun 18) | Saltonstall, Leverett | Doctor of Laws | |
| 1936 (Jun 15) | Williams, Clement Clarence | President, Lehigh University | Doctor of Engineering |
| 1936 (Jun 15) | Douglas, Lloyd Cassel | Doctor of Literature | |
| 1936 (Jun 15) | Potter, Andrey Abraham | Doctor of Science | |
| 1936 (Jun 15) | Webster, Edwin Sibley | Doctor of Laws | |
| 1937 (Jun 21) | Wildman, Clyde Everett | President, DePauw University | Doctor of Laws |
| 1937 (Jun 21) | Bates, Sanford | Doctor of Laws | |
| 1937 (Jun 21) | Clifford, Harry Ellsworth | Doctor of Science | |
| 1937 (Jun 21) | Smith, William Lincoln | Doctor of Engineering | |
| 1938 (Jun 20) | Allen, Calvin Francis | Doctor of Engineering | |
| 1938 (Jun 20) | Bridges, Henry Styles | Senator, New Hampshire | Doctor of Laws |
| 1938 (Jun 20) | Burgess, Thornton Waldo | Doctor of Literature | |
| 1938 (Jun 20) | Nash, Philip Curtis | Doctor of Laws | |
| 1939 (Jun 19) | Sockman, Ralph Washington | Clergyman; Author; Lecturer | None |
| 1939 (Jun 19) | Aldrich, Winthrop Williams | Doctor of Laws | |
| 1939 (Jun 19) | Compton, Karl Taylor | Doctor of Laws | |
| 1939 (Jun 19) | Davis, Harvey Nathaniel | Doctor of Science | |
| 1939 (Jun 19) | Jackson, Dugald Caleb | Doctor of Engineering | |
| 1939 (Jun 19) | Lodge, Henry Cabot, Jr. | Doctor of Laws | |
| 1939 (Jun 19) | Weeks, Edward Augustus, Jr. | Doctor of Literature | |
| 1940 (Jun 18) | Barker, Joseph Warren | Dean, School of Engineering, Columbia University | Doctor of Science |
| 1940 (Jun 18) | Cahill, Horace Tracy | Lieutenant Governor, Massachusetts | Doctor of Laws |
| 1940 (Jun 18) | Dolan, Arthur Walter | Doctor of Laws | |
| 1940 (Jun 18) | Moreland, Edward Leyburn | Doctor of Engineering | |
| 1941 (Jun 16) | Cabot, Godfrey Lowell | Doctor of Science | |
| 1941 (Jun 16) | Carmichael, Leonard | Doctor of Laws | |
| 1941 (Jun 16) | Cluverius, Wat Tyler | Doctor of Engineering | |
| 1941 (Jun 16) | Moulton, Harold Glenn | President, Brookings Institution | Doctor of Laws |
| 1941 (Jun 16) | Oxnam, G. Bromley | Doctor of Literature | |
| 1942 (Jun 14) | Flanders, Ralph E. | Doctor of Engineering | |
| 1942 (Jun 14) | Shih, Hu | Doctor of Laws | |
| 1942 (Jun 14) | Lincoln, Joseph Crosby | Doctor of Literature | |
| 1942 (Jun 14) | Pollock, Channing | Doctor of Laws | |
| 1942 (Jun 14) | Seaton, Roy Andrew | Doctor of Science | |
| 1943 (Apr 11) | Harrison, George Russell | Dean of Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Doctor of Science |
| 1943 (Apr 11) | Jacobs, Rear Admiral Randall | Rear Admiral, United States Navy | Doctor of Engineering |
| 1943 (Apr 11) | Ronan, Hon. James J. | Associate Justice, Supreme Judicial Court, Massachusetts | Doctor of Laws |
| 1943 (Apr 11) | Somervell, Lt. General Brehon | Lieutenant General, United States Army | Doctor of Engineering |
| 1943 (Apr 11) | Tolley, William Pearson | Chancellor, Syracuse University | Doctor of Laws |
| 1943 (Nov 21) | Lodge, Henry Cabot | Senator, Massachusetts | None |
| 1944 (Jun 3) | Watson, Thomas John | None | |
| 1944 (Jun 3) | Sikorsky, Igor I. | Doctor of Science | |
| 1944 (Jun 3) | Vanderbilt, Arthur T. | Doctor of Laws | |
| 1944 (Jun 3) | Warren, Julius Ernest | Doctor of Laws | |
| 1944 (Jun 3) | Wilson, Charles Edward | Doctor of Engineering | |
| 1944 (Dec 3) | Cluverius, Rear Admiral Wat Tyler | Rear Admiral, United States Navy (retired) | None |
| 1945 (Jun 3) | Dawes, Chester L. | Doctor of English | |
| 1945 (Jun 3) | Dewey, Bradley | Doctor of Science | |
| 1945 (Jun 3) | Gibson, Harvey D. | Doctor of Laws | |
| 1945 (Jun 3) | Mosher, Ira | Doctor of Laws | |
| 1945 (Jun 3) | Roberts, Kenneth | Doctor of Literature | |
| 1945 (Dec 5) | White, William Crombie | Director, Day College, Northeastern University | None |
| 1946 (Jun 9) | Allen, Frederick Lewis | Doctor of Literature | |
| 1946 (Jun 9) | Ching, Cyrus S. | Doctor of Laws | |
| 1946 (Jun 9) | Hunsaker, Jerome Clarke | Doctor of Engineering | |
| 1946 (Jun 9) | Rand, William McNear | Doctor of Laws | |
| 1946 (Jun 9) | Spaulding, Francis Trow | Doctor of Laws | |
| 1947 (Feb 2) | Allen, Frederick Lewis | None | |
| 1947 (Jun 22) | Byrd, Richard Evelyn | Rear Admiral, United States Navy | Doctor of Science |
| 1947 (Jun 22) | De Haas, J. Anton | Doctor of Laws | |
| 1947 (Jun 22) | Howe, Mark Antony DeWolfe | Doctor of Literature | |
| 1947 (Jun 22) | Sherwood, Thomas Kilgore | Doctor of Engineering | |
| 1947 (Sep 14) | Wadsworth, Eliot | Doctor of Laws | |
| 1948 (Jan 31) | Herter, Christian A. | Doctor of Laws | |
| 1948 (Jun 20) | Weeks, Sinclair | Doctor of Laws | |
| 1948 (Oct 2) | Chase, Mary Ellen | Author; Professor, English Literature, Smith College | Doctor of Literature |
| 1948 (Oct 2) | Conant, James B. | President, Harvard University | Doctor of Laws |
| 1948 (Oct 2) | deFlorez, Luis | Rear Admiral, United States Navy (retired); Consulting Engineer; Inventor | Doctor of English |
| 1948 (Oct 2) | DeVoto, Bernard | Author; Editor | Doctor of Literature |
| 1948 (Oct 2) | Gilliland, Edwin R. | Professor, Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Doctor of English |
| 1948 (Oct 2) | Higgins, John P. | Chief Justice, Superior Court, Masssachusetts | Doctor of Laws |
| 1948 (Oct 2) | Julian, Percy L. | Director of Research, Manager of Fine Chemicals, Glidden Company | Doctor of Science |
| 1948 (Oct 2) | Randall, Clarence B. | Vice President, Inland Steel Company | Doctor of Laws |
| 1948 (Oct 2) | Sinnott, Edmund W. | Director, Sheffield Scientific School, Yale University | Doctor of Science |
| 1948 (Oct 2) | Spang, Joseph P., Jr. | President, Gillette Safety Razor Company | Doctor of Laws |
| 1948 (Oct 2) | Swan, Thomas W. | Judge, United States Circuit Court of Appeals, Second Circuit | Doctor of Laws |
| 1948 (Oct 2) | Walters, Raymond | President, University of Cincinnati | Doctor of Laws |
| 1949 (Jun 26) | Babcock, Earl Byron | Doctor of Science | |
| 1949 (Jun 26) | Bowditch, Richard Lyon | Doctor of Laws | |
| 1949 (Jun 26) | Clifford, George Henry | Doctor of Laws | |
| 1949 (Jun 26) | Cutler, Robert | Doctor of Laws | |
| 1949 (Jun 26) | Forbes, Esther | Doctor of Literature | |
| 1949 (Jun 26) | Haertlein, Albert | Doctor of Engineering | |
| 1949 (Jun 26) | Killian, James R., Jr. | Doctor of Laws | |
| 1950 (Jun 25) | Abrams, Frank W. | Doctor of Engineering | |
| 1950 (Jun 25) | Clapp, Margaret | Doctor of Laws | |
| 1950 (Jun 25) | Dillon, Frederick Joseph | Doctor of Laws | |
| 1950 (Jun 25) | Greenewalt, Crawford Hallock | Doctor of Science | |
| 1950 (Jun 25) | Lowell, Ralph | Doctor of Laws | |
| 1950 (Jun 25) | Marquand, John Phillips | Doctor of Literature | |
| 1951 (Jun 24) | Kalmus, Herbert Thomas | Doctor of Engineering | |
| 1951 (Jun 24) | David, Donald Kirk | Doctor of Laws | |
| 1951 (Jun 24) | Medina, Harold R. | Doctor of Laws | |
| 1951 (Jun 24) | Mitchell, Don G. | Doctor of Laws | |
| 1951 (Jun 24) | Wilder, Thornton Niven | Doctor of Literature | |
| 1951 (Jun 24) | Warner, John Christian | President, Carnegie Institute of Technology | Doctor of Science |
| 1952 (Jun 22) | Adams, Arthur Stanton | President, American Council on Eduction | Doctor of Laws |
| 1952 (Jun 22) | Brooks, Van Wyck | Doctor of Literature | |
| 1952 (Jun 22) | Cabot, Thomas Dudley | Doctor of Laws | |
| 1952 (Jun 22) | White, William Crombie | Doctor of Engineering | |
| 1952 (Jun 22) | Wilkins, Raymond Sanger | Doctor of Laws | |
| 1953 (Jun 21) | Canham, Erwin Dain | Doctor of Literature | |
| 1953 (Jun 21) | Hansen, George | Doctor of Laws | |
| 1953 (Jun 21) | Howe, Right Hon. Clarence Decature | Doctor of Engineering | |
| 1953 (Jun 21) | Jacobsen, Alfred | Doctor of Laws | |
| 1953 (Jun 21) | Phillips, Charles F. | Doctor of Laws | |
| 1953 (Jun 21) | Qua, Stanley Elroy | Doctor of Laws | |
| 1953 (Jun 21) | Sprague, Robert Chapman | Chairman of the Board, Sprague Electric Company | Doctor of Engineering |
| 1953 (Jun 21) | Waterman, Alan Tower | Doctor of Science | |
| 1954 (Jun 27) | Case, Harold Claude | Doctor of Laws | |
| 1954 (Jun 27) | Gores, Harold B. | Doctor of Laws | |
| 1954 (Jun 27) | Hood, Clifford F. | Doctor of Engineering | |
| 1954 (Jun 27) | McCaffrey, John L. | President, International Harvester Company | Doctor of Laws |
| 1954 (Jun 27) | McCord, David Thompson Watson | Doctor of Literature | |
| 1954 (Jun 27) | Stewart, John Harold | Doctor of Commercial Science | |
| 1954 (Jun 27) | Whitman, Walter Gordon | Doctor of Science | |
| 1955 (Jun 17) | Bronwell, Arthur Brough | Doctor of Laws | |
| 1955 (Jun 17) | Curtice, Harlow Herbert | Doctor of Commercial Science | |
| 1955 (Jun 17) | Flood, Frank Lee | Doctor of Engineering | |
| 1955 (Jun 17) | Haskins, Caryl P. | Doctor of Science | |
| 1955 (Jun 17) | Kimball, Charles Newton | President, Midwest Research Institute | Doctor of Engineering |
| 1955 (Jun 17) | Pusey, Nathan Marsh | Doctor of Laws | |
| 1955 (Jun 17) | Spalding, John Varnum | Doctor of Laws | |
| 1956 (Jun 17) | Alter, Chester M. | Doctor of Laws | |
| 1956 (Jun 17) | Bowen, Catherine Drinker | Doctor of Literature | |
| 1956 (Jun 17) | Everett, Albert Ellsworth | Doctor of Commercial Science | |
| 1956 (Jun 17) | Funston, George Keith | Doctor of Laws | |
| 1956 (Jun 17) | Gettino, Ivan A. | Doctor of Science | |
| 1956 (Jun 17) | Kennedy, John Fitzgerald | Senator, Massachusetts | Doctor of Laws |
| 1956 (Jun 17) | Volpe, John Anthony | Doctor of Engineering | |
| 1957 (Jun 16) | Burns, John Lawrence | President, Radio Corporation of America | Doctor of Business Administration |
| 1957 (Jun 16) | Catton, Bruce | Editor, Historian | Doctor of Literature |
| 1957 (Jun 16) | Herren, Thomas Wade | Commanding General, First United States Army | Doctor of Laws |
| 1957 (Jun 16) | Knowles, Asa Smallidge | President, University of Toledo | Doctor of Laws |
| 1957 (Jun 16) | Magruder, Calvert | Chief Judge, United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit | Doctor of Laws |
| 1957 (Jun 16) | Stratton, Julius Adams | Chancellor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Doctor of Laws |
| 1957 (Jun 16) | Woodward, Carl Raymond | President, University of Rhode Island | Doctor of Laws |
| 1958 (Jun 15) | Alexander, Peter Popow | Chairman, Metal Hydrides, Inc. | Doctor of Science |
| 1958 (Jun 15) | Mather, Jean Paul | President, University of Massachusetts | Doctor of Laws |
| 1958 (Jun 15) | Miller, Perry | Professor of American Literature, Harvard University | Doctor of Literature |
| 1958 (Jun 15) | Pierce, Arthur Jenkins | Brigadier General, United States Air Force | Doctor of Laws |
| 1958 (Jun 15) | Washburn, Henry Bradford, Jr. | Director, Boston Museum of Science | Doctor of Science |
| 1958 (Jun 15) | Wessell, Nils Yngve | President, Tufts University | Doctor of Laws |
| 1959 (Jun 14) | Adams, Charles Francis | President, Raytheon Corporation | Doctor of Business Administration |
| 1959 (Jun 14) | Alexander, William Thurlow | Dean, College of Engineering, Northeastern University |
Doctor of Engineering |
| 1959 (Jun 14) | Ell, Carl Stephens | President, Northeastern University | Doctor of Science |
| 1959 (Jun 14) | Homer, Arthur Bartlett | President and CEO, Bethlehem Steel Corporation | Doctor of Business Administration |
| 1959 (Jun 14) | Land, Edwin Herbert | President, Polaroid Corporation | Doctor of Science |
| 1959 (Jun 14) | Pastore, John O. | Senator, Rhode Island | Doctor of Laws |
| 1959 (Jun 14) | Tharp, Louise Hall | Author and Lecturer | Doctor of Literature |
| 1960 (Jun 19) | Howes, Raymond Floyd | Editor, The Educational Record | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 1960 (Jun 19) | Langsam, Walter Consuelo | President, University of Cincinnati | Doctor of Science |
| 1960 (Jun 19) | Rathbone, Perry Townsend | Director, Boston Museum of Fine Arts | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 1960 (Jun 19) | Sachar, Abram Leon | President, Brandeis University | Doctor of Literature |
| 1960 (Jun 19) | Sennott, Right Rev. Robert J. | Chancellor, Archdiocese of Boston, Massachusetts | Doctor of Civil Law |
| 1960 (Jun 19) | Sullivan, William E. R. | Brigadier General, United States Army and President, United States Army Chemical Corps Board | Doctor of Science |
| 1961 (Jun 18) | Brace, Lloyd D. | President and Director, First National Bank of Boston | Doctor of Laws |
| 1961 (Jun 18) | Bunting, Mary Ingraham | President, Radcliffe College | Doctor of Laws |
| 1961 (Jun 18) | Kiernan, Owen Burns | Commissioner of Education, Massachusetts | Doctor of Laws |
| 1961 (Jun 18) | Phinney, Edward D. | Former Vice President and General Patent Attorney, International Telephone and Telegraph Corporation | Doctor of Science |
| 1961 (Jun 18) | Tyler, Chaplin | Management Consultant, E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company, Inc. | Doctor of Science |
| 1961 (Jun 18) | Whipple, Fred Lawrence | Director, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory | Doctor of Letters |
| 1961 (Jun 18) | Whitehill, Walter Muir | Director and Librarian, Boston Athanaeum | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 1962 (Jun 17) | Collins, John Frederick | Mayor, Boston, Massachusetts | Doctor of Civil Law |
| 1962 (Jun 17) | Beatty, H. Russell | President, Wentworth Institute | Doctor of Engineering |
| 1962 (Jun 17) | Black, Eugene Robert | President and Chairman, International Bank for Reconstruction and Development | Doctor of Public Administration |
| 1962 (Jun 17) | Chapin, William S. | General Manager and Chief Engineer, Power Authority, New York State | Doctor of Engineering |
| 1962 (Jun 17) | Jones, Henry Campbell | President, Arkwright Mutual Insurance Company | Doctor of Laws |
| 1962 (Jun 17) | Walsh, Michael Patrick | President, Boston College | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 1962 (Jun 17) | Webb, James Edwin | Administrator, National Aeronautics and Space Administration | Doctor of Public Administration |
| 1963 (Jun 16) | Beal, Orville Ellsworth | President, Prudential Insurance Corporation | Doctor of Laws |
| 1963 (Jun 16) | Black, Robert D. | Chairman and CEO, Black and Decker Manufacturing Company | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 1963 (Jun 16) | Mugar, Stephen P. | President, Star Market Company | Doctor of Laws |
| 1963 (Jun 16) | Richardson, Frank Lincoln | Chairman of the Board, Newton-Waltham Bank and Trust Company | Doctor of Laws |
| 1963 (Jun 16) | Wilson, Logan | President, American Council on Education | Doctor of Literature |
| 1964 (Jun 14) | Brooke, Edward W. | Attorney General, Massachusetts | Doctor of Public Administration |
| 1964 (Jun 14) | Lederle, John William | President, University of Massachusetts | Doctor of Public Administration |
| 1964 (Jun 14) | Smith, Margaret Chase | Senator, Maine | Doctor of Public Administration |
| 1964 (Jun 14) | Wyeth, Andrew | Artist | Doctor of Fine Arts |
| 1964 (Jun 14) | Tyler, Ralph Winfred | Director, Center for Advanced Study in Behavioral Sciences, University of California | Doctor of Laws |
| 1964 (Jun 14) | Voke, Edward J. | Associate Justice, Superior Court, Massachusetts | Doctor of Laws |
| 1965 (Jun 20) | McCormack, James | Vice President, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Doctor of Engineering |
| 1965 (Jun 20) | Holland, Jerome Heartwell | President, Hampton Institute | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 1965 (Jun 20) | Kennedy, Edward M. | Senator, Massachusetts | Doctor of Public Administration |
| 1965 (Jun 20) | O'Brien, Lawrence Francis, '42 | Special Assistant for Congressional Relations to United States President Johnson | Doctor of Public Administration |
| 1965 (Jun 20) | Markell, Robert J., '44 | Television Producer | Doctor of Fine Arts |
| 1965 (Jun 20) | Peabody, Amelia | Distinguished Bostonian, Artist | Doctor of Fine Arts |
| 1965 (Jun 20) | Cushing, Cardinal Richard | Archbishop of Boston, Roman Catholic Church, Massachusetts | Doctor of Laws |
| 1966 (Jun 19) | Chapman, Richard Palmer | Chairman, New England Merchants National Bank | Doctor of Laws |
| 1966 (Jun 19) | Fiedler, Arthur | Director and Conductor, Boston Pops Orchestra | Doctor of Fine Arts |
| 1966 (Jun 19) | Johnson, Howard W. | President-elect, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 1966 (Jun 19) | Lally, Francis Joseph | Editor, The Pilot | Doctor of Divinity |
| 1966 (Jun 19) | Norton, Elliot | Distinguished Drama Critic | Doctor of Literature |
| 1966 (Jun 19) | Ziegler, Wilbur C. | Minister, Old West Church | Doctor of Divinity |
| 1966 (Jun 19) | Katzenbach, Nicholas deBelleville | Attorney General, United States Department of Justice | Doctor of Public Administration |
| 1967 (Jun 18) | Adams, Ruth Marie | President, Wellesley College | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 1967 (Jun 18) | Beaton, Roy Howard, '39 | General Manager, Apollo Support Department, General Electric Company | Doctor of Science |
| 1967 (Jun 18) | Caldwell, Sarah | Artistic Director, American National Opera Company; Artistic Director, Opera Company of Boston | Doctor of Fine Arts |
| 1967 (Jun 18) | Gunn, Hartford Nelson, Jr. | General Manager, WGBH Television | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 1967 (Jun 18) | Knight, Norman | President, Knight Quality Radio Stations | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 1967 (Jun 18) | Rabb, Norman Saul | Chairman, Advisory Council on Education, Massachusetts | Doctor of Laws |
| 1967 (Jun 18) | Rogers, Ralph Burton, '31 | Chairman and President, Texas Industries | Doctor of Laws |
| 1967 (Jun 18) | Schuller, Gunther | President-Elect, New England Conservatory of Music | Doctor of Music |
| 1967 (Jun 18) | Morse, F. Bradford | Representative, Fifth Congressional District, Massachusetts | Doctor of Public Administration |
| 1967 (Sep 7) | No honorary degree conferred | ||
| 1968 (Jun 16) | Weaver, Robert C. | Secretary, United States Department of Housing and Urban Development | Doctor of Public Administration |
| 1968 (Jun 16) | Dana, Charles A. | Organizer, Dana Coporation; Organizer, Charles A. Dana Foundation; Humanitarian; Philanthropist | Doctor of Laws |
| 1968 (Jun 16) | Ebert, Robert Higgins | President, Harvard Medical Center; Dean, Harvard Medical School | Doctor of Science |
| 1968 (Jun 16) | Morris, James A. | Vice President, Advanced Studies and Research, University of South Carolina | Doctor of Laws |
| 1968 (Jun 16) | Peterson, Esther Eggertsen | Assistant Secretary for Labor Standards | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 1968 (Jun 16) | Phillips, Thomas L. | President and Director, Raytheon Company | Doctor of Science |
| 1968 (Jun 16) | Rossiter, Henry P. | Former Curator, Department of Prints and Drawings, Boston Museum of Fine Arts | Doctor of Fine Arts |
| 1968 (Jun 16) | Sgarzi, Amedeo V. | Justice, Superior Court, Massachusetts | Doctor of Laws |
| 1968 (Sep 5) | No honorary degrees conferred | ||
| 1969 (Jun 15) | Cass, Melnea A. | "Roxbury's First Lady and Elder Stateswoman" | Doctor of Humanities |
| 1969 (Jun 15) | Gryzmish, Reuben B., '12 | Director, National Council | Doctor of Humanities |
| 1969 (Jun 15) | Kendrew, A. Edwin | Senior Vice President, Colonial Williamsburg Corporation (retired) | Doctor of Fine Arts |
| 1969 (Jun 15) | Koontz, Elizabeth Duncan | First African American Director, Women's Bureau, United States Department of Labor | Doctor of Science in Education |
| 1969 (Jun 15) | Burns, Ralph Arthur | Former Director of Evaluation, Commission on Institutions of Higher Education, New England Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools, Inc. | Doctor of Education |
| 1969 (Jun 15) | Spear, Joseph | Consultant, Division of Programmed Instruction, Northeastern University | Doctor of Science |
| 1969 (Jun 15) | Knowles, John Hilton | General Director and Physician, Massachusetts General Hospital; Professor, Harvard Medical School | Doctor of Laws |
| 1969 (Jun 15) | Muskie, Edmund Sixtus | Senator, Maine | Doctor of Civil Law |
| 1969 (Sep 4) | [no honorary degrees conferred] | ||
| 1970 (Jun 14) | Gart, Murray J., '49 | Chief of Correspondence, Time-Life News Service | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 1970 (Jun 14) | Atkins, Thomas I. | First African American elected to City Council, Boston, Massachusetts; Former Executive Secretary, NAACP, Boston, Massachusetts | Doctor of Public Administration |
| 1970 (Jun 14) | Jacobson, Eli, '33 | Chairman of the Board, Chicago Dressed Beef Company, Inc. | Doctor of Laws |
| 1970 (Jun 14) | Probst, George E. | Executive Director, Commission for Cooperative Education | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 1970 (Jun 14) | Quirico, Francis J., '32 | Associate Justice, Supreme Judicial Court, Massachusetts | Doctor of Laws |
| 1970 (Jun 14) | Hadley, Edwin W. | Professor, School of Law, Northeastern University | Doctor of Laws |
| 1970 (Jun 14) | Cronkhite, Leonard W., Jr. | General Director, Children's Hospital Medical Center | Doctor of Laws |
| 1970 (Jun 14) | Allen, James E., Jr. | Assistant Secretary for Education; United States Commissioner of Education | Doctor of Educational Administration |
| 1970 (Jun 14) | Heckler, Margaret M. | Representative, 10th Congressional District, Massachusetts | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 1970 (Jun 14) | Collins, Michael | Assistant Secretary of State, Public Affairs | Doctor of Science |
| 1970 (Sep 10) | [no honorary degrees conferred] | ||
| 1971 (Jun 20) | Bennett, Wallace Foster | Senator, Utah | Doctor of Humanities |
| 1971 (Jun 20) | Colier, Abram Thurlow | Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences | Doctor of Humanities |
| 1971 (Jun 20) | Sargent, Francis W. | Governor, Massachusetts | Doctor of Public Administration |
| 1971 (Jun 20) | Bailey, John Stephen, '59 | President, Nasson College | Doctor of Science in Education |
| 1971 (Jun 20) | Littlefield, Henry Wilson | President Emeritus, University of Bridgeport | Doctor of Science in Education |
| 1971 (Jun 20) | Banks, Talcott M. | President, Boston Symphony Orchestra; Honorary President, Boston Opera Association | Doctor of Laws |
| 1971 (Jun 20) | Coakley, Livingstone Nathaniel, '58 | Minister of Works, Government of the Bahamas | Doctor of Laws |
| 1971 (Jun 20) | Damon, Roger Conant | Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer, First National Bank of Boston | Doctor of Laws |
| 1971 (Jun 20) | Princi, Peter W., '38 | Former United States Commissioner, Massachusetts | Doctor of Laws |
| 1971 (Jun 20) | King, Coretta Scott | Doctor of Laws | |
| 1971 (Sep 16) | [no honorary degrees conferred] | ||
| 1972 (Jun 18) - am | Elliott, Byron K. | President and Chairman, John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Company (retired) | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 1972 (Jun 18) - am | Green, Edith | Representative, Oregon | Doctor of Public Administration |
| 1972 (Jun 18) - am | Lawlor, Joseph C., '43 | President and Chairman of the Board, Camp Dresser & McKee | Doctor of Engineering |
| 1972 (Jun 18) - am | Orr, James H., '26 | Chairman of the Board, Colonial Management Associates, Inc. | Doctor of Laws |
| 1972 (Jun 18) - am | Stokes, Rembert E. | President, Wilberforce University | Doctor of Laws |
| 1972 (Jun 18) - pm | Barry, Sr. Marie | President, Emmanuel College | Doctor of Laws |
| 1972 (Jun 18) - pm | Hale, Allan M., '39 | Associate Justice, Superior Court, Massachusetts | Doctor of Laws |
| 1972 (Jun 18) - pm | Havice, Charles W. | Dean of Chapel and Senior Professor, Department of Philosophy and Religion, Northeastern University | Doctor of Laws |
| 1972 (Jun 18) - pm | Pai, Ei Whan, '35 | Ambassador-at-Large and Special Envoy of the President, Repubic of Korea | Doctor of Laws |
| 1972 (Jun 18) - pm | Waring, Lloyd B. | Vice President, Kidder, Peabody, and Company, Inc. | Doctor of Political Science |
| 1972 (Sep 14) | [no honorary degrees conferred] | ||
| 1973 (Jun 17) - am | Cahners, Helen Rabb | Chairman of the Board of Trustees, Westbrook College | Doctor of Laws |
| 1973 (Jun 17) - am | Feldman, Marvin J. | President, Fashion Institute of Technology | Doctor of Science in Education |
| 1973 (Jun 17) - am | Ferguson, David N., '52 | Vice President and General Manager, Electronics Division, Northrop Corporation | Doctor of Science |
| 1973 (Jun 17) - am | Hallowell, Burton C. | President, Tufts University | Doctor of Laws |
| 1973 (Jun 17) - am | Martin, Lawrence H. | Chairman and CEO, National Shawmut Bank of Boston | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 1973 (Jun 17) - pm | Abrams, Julia, '25 | President, Poley-Abrams Corporation | Doctor of Engineering |
| 1973 (Jun 17) - pm | Burgess, Right Rev. John Melville | Episcopal Bishop, Diocese of Massachusetts | Doctor of Divinity |
| 1973 (Jun 17) - pm | Montoya, Joseph M. | Senator, New Mexico | Doctor of Laws |
| 1973 (Jun 17) - pm | Oztemel, Ara, '51 | President and Chairman, Satra Corporation | Doctor of Business Administration |
| 1973 (Sep 13) | [no honorary degrees conferred] | ||
| 1974 (Jun 16) - am | Cleveland, Laurence F. | Professor of Electrical Engineering, Northeastern University | Doctor of Engineering |
| 1974 (Jun 16) - am | Donovan, Paul F., '55 | Director, Office of Energy R&D Policy, National Science Foundation | Doctor of Science |
| 1974 (Jun 16) - am | Foster, Luther H. | President, Tuskegee Institute | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 1974 (Jun 16) - am | Newell, Barbara | President, Wellesley College | Doctor of Literature |
| 1974 (Jun 16) - am | Stone, David B. | President, North American Management Corporation | Doctor of Laws |
| 1974 (Jun 16) - pm | Bateson, Lincoln C., '50-'56 | Vice President of Business, Northeastern University | Doctor of Business Administration |
| 1974 (Jun 16) - pm | Fye, Paul MacDonald | President and Director, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute | Doctor of Laws |
| 1974 (Jun 16) - pm | Hurtig, Carl R., '48 | Executive Vice President and Director, Damon Corporation | Doctor of Engineering |
| 1974 (Jun 16) - pm | Parsons, Edward S., '22 | Vice President for Business, Northeastern University | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 1974 (Jun 16) - pm | Ziegler, Vincent C. | Chairman, Gillette Company | Doctor of Laws |
| 1974 (Sep 12) | [no honorary degrees conferred] | ||
| 1975 (Jun 22) - am | Brown, Martin, '21 | President, J&M Company | Doctor of Engineering |
| 1975 (Jun 22) - am | Cross, K. Patricia | Senior Research Psychologist, Educational Testing Service | Doctor of Science |
| 1975 (Jun 22) - am | di Scipio, Alfred, '50 | President and Chief Executive Officer, Magnavox Consumer Electronics Company | Doctor of Laws |
| 1975 (Jun 22) - am | Golledge, Rev. Robert Walter | Vicar, Old North Church | Doctor of Divinity |
| 1975 (Jun 22) - am | Gross, Fritz A. | Vice President, Engineering, Raytheon Company | Doctor of Engineering |
| 1975 (Jun 22) - am | Nelson, Hon. David Sutherland | Associate Justice, Superior Court, Massachusetts | Doctor of Jurisprudence |
| 1975 (Jun 22) - pm | Hill, Richard Devereux | President and Chief Executive Officer, First National Bank of Boston | Doctor of Laws |
| 1975 (Jun 22) - pm | Ives, David O. | President, WGBH Educational Foundation | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 1975 (Jun 22) - pm | Mock, Harold Adam, '23 | Managing Partner, Arthur Young and Company | Doctor of Business Administration |
| 1975 (Jun 22) - pm | Monan, Rev. J. Donald, S.J. | President, Boston College | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 1975 (Sep 18) | [no honorary degrees conferred] | ||
| 1976 (Jun 20) - am | Mayer, Jean | President-Elect, Tufts University | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 1976 (Jun 20) - am | Monbleau, Rev. Charles Henry | Minister, Pilgrim Congregational Church, Harwich Port, Massachusetts | Doctor of Divinity |
| 1976 (Jun 20) - am | Rabb, Sidney R. | Chairman of the Board, Stop & Shop Companies, Inc. | Doctor of Humanities |
| 1976 (Jun 20) - am | Reston, James B. | Journalist; Author | Doctor of Journalism |
| 1976 (Jun 20) - am | Smith, Farnham W., '24 | President and Director, Katahdin Iron Works Corporation and Katahdin Industries, Inc. | Doctor of Business Administration |
| 1976 (Jun 20) - pm | Gilbert, Carl J. | President, Association of Independent Colleges and Universities in Massachusetts | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 1976 (Jun 20) - pm | Hennessey, Hon. Edward F., '41 | Chief Justice, Supreme Judicial Court, Massachusetts | Doctor of Laws |
| 1976 (Jun 20) - pm | Jackson, Ellen Swepson | Director, Freedom House Institute on Schools and Education | Doctor of Humanities |
| 1976 (Sep 16) | [no honorary degrees conferred] | ||
| 1977 (May 28) | Bownes, Hon. Hugh H. | United States District Court, New Hampshire | None |
| 1977 (Jun 19) - am | Kennedy, Edward M. | Senator, Massachusetts | None |
| 1977 (Jun 19) - am | Baird, Charles O., '22 | Chairman of Civil Engineering and University Engineer, Northeastern University (retired) | Doctor of Engineering |
| 1977 (Jun 19) - am | Barnett, Louis H., '44 | International Consultant; Special Advisor to the Israeli Government | Doctor of Engineering |
| 1977 (Jun 19) - am | Cherne, Leo | Executive Director, Research Institute of America | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 1977 (Jun 19) - am | Ferretti, Alfred John | Professor and Chairman, Mechanical Engineering, Northeastern University (retired) | Doctor of Engineering |
| 1977 (Jun 19) - am | Melvin, Harold Welsey | Professor, English, Northeastern University (retired) | Doctor of Letters |
| 1977 (Jun 19) - am | Woodcock, Leonard F. | President Emeritus, United Auto Workers | Doctor of Public Service |
| 1977 (Jun 19) - pm | Bickerstaff, Sr. Anne Marie | Director, Holy Trinity School, Port-au-Prince, Haiti | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 1977 (Jun 19) - pm | Bleicken, Gerhard D. | Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer, John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Company | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 1977 (Jun 19) - pm | Cochran, Jacqueline | Chairman of the Board, Jacqueline Cochran, Inc. | Doctor of Military Science |
| 1977 (Jun 19) - pm | Mann, Maurice, '51 | President and Chief Executive Officer, Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco | Doctor of Laws |
| 1977 (Jun 19) - pm | Thomas, Lowell Jackson | Journalist; Author; Broadcaster | Doctor of Letters |
| 1977 (Sep 15) | [no honorary degrees conferred] | ||
| 1978 (May 27) | Mann, Maurice, '51 | Professor, Law, Suffolk University | None |
| 1978 (May 27) | Thomas, Lowell Jackson | Associate Justice, Municipal Court, Boston, Massachusetts | None |
| 1978 (Jun 18) - am | Bernstein, Marver H. | President, Brandeis University | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 1978 (Jun 18) - am | Cox, Archibald | Carl M. Loeb University Professor, Harvard University | Doctor of Laws |
| 1978 (Jun 18) - am | Fontein, Jan | Director, Boston Museum of Fine Arts | Doctor of Fine Arts |
| 1978 (Jun 18) - am | Jackson, Rev. Jesse L. | Civil Rights Leader | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 1978 (Jun 18) - am | Lake, Wilfred S. | Dean, College of Liberal Arts, Northeastern University | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 1978 (Jun 18) - am | Mercer, William C. | President, New England Telephone & Telegraph Company | Doctor of Public Service |
| 1978 (Jun 18) - am | Mott, Ruth Rawlings, '23 | Executive, Ruth Mott Foundation; Teacher, Physical Education and Dance; Civic Leader | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 1978 (Jun 18) - pm | Anrig, Gregory R. | Commissioner of Education, Massachusetts | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 1978 (Jun 18) - pm | Baker, Chester P., '20, '34 | Chairman, Chemical Engineering, Northeastern University | Doctor of Engineering |
| 1978 (Jun 18) - pm | Haynes, Rev. Michael E. | Minister, 12th Baptist Church of Roxbury, Massachusetts | Doctor of Divinity |
| 1978 (Jun 18) - pm | Medeiros, Cardinal Humberto | Cardinal, Roman Catholic Church; Fourth Archbishop, Boston, Massachusetts | Doctor of Divinity |
| 1978 (Jun 18) - pm | Pell, Claiborne | Senator, Rhode Island | Doctor of Humanities |
| 1978 (Jun 18) - pm | Phillips, Edward E. | President, New England Mutual Life Insurance Company | Doctor of Public Service |
| 1978 (Jun 18) - pm | Williams, E. Virginia | Founder and Artistic Director, Boston Ballet Company | Doctor of Fine Arts |
| 1978 (Sep 14) | [no honorary degrees conferred] | ||
| 1979 (May 26) (Law) | Higginbotham, A. Leon, Jr. | Judge, Third United States Circuit Court of Appeals | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 1979 (Jun 17) - am | Cooperstein, Louis | Professor and Chairman, Modern Languages, Northeastern University (retired) | Doctor of Letters |
| 1979 (Jun 17) - am | Lewis, Elma Ina | Founder-Director, National Center of Afro-American Artists | Doctor of Letters |
| 1979 (Jun 17) - am | MacDonald, Gilbert George, E'32 | Vice President, Student Affairs, Northeastern University | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 1979 (Jun 17) - am | Moakley, John Joseph | Representative, Ninth Congressional District, Massachusetts | Doctor of Political Science |
| 1979 (Jun 17) - am | Robinson, Dwight P., Jr. | Lifetime Trustee Emeritus, Northeastern University; Partner, Massachusetts Financial Services Company | Doctor of Laws |
| 1979 (Jun 17) - am | Tsongas, Paul E. | Senator, Massachusetts | Doctor of Public Service |
| 1979 (Jun 17) - pm | Ryder, Kenneth Gilmore | President, Northeastern University | None |
| 1979 (Jun 17) - pm | Conte, Silvio O. | Representative, First Congressional District, Massachusetts | Doctor of Public Service |
| 1979 (Jun 17) - pm | Ford, Joseph P. | President and Treasurer, Ford Manufacturing, Inc. | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 1979 (Jun 17) - pm | Haskins, Kenneth W. | President, Roxbury Community College | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 1979 (Jun 17) - pm | Loughlin, Sr. Mary Ann | Executive Director, Kennedy Memorial Hospital for Children, Brighton, Massachusetts | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 1979 (Jun 17) - pm | Olsen, Stanley Charles, LI '57, B '58 | Vice President, Maynard | Doctor of Engineering |
| 1979 (Jun 17) - pm | Pei, I.M. | Architect | Doctor of Fine Arts |
| 1979 (Sep 13) | [no honorary degrees conferred] | ||
| 1980 (May 24) (Law) | Brest, Paul | Professor, Law, Stanford University | Doctor of Laws |
| 1980 (Jun 15) - am | Goshgarian, Gary | Professor, English, Northeastern University | None |
| 1980 (Jun 15) - am | Mattson, Walter E., LI ' 59 | President and CEO, New York Times Company | Doctor of Commercial Science |
| 1980 (Jun 15) - am | Riesman, Joseph G., B '18 | Founder, Royal Electric Company | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 1980 (Jun 15) - am | Scott, Jessie M. | Assistant Surgeon General, United States Public Health Service | Doctor of Public Service |
| 1980 (Jun 15) - am | Snowden, Otto Phillip | Co-Founder and Co-Director, Freedom House, Inc. | Doctor of Public Service |
| 1980 (Jun 15) - am | Allen, Catherine Louise | Special Assistant to the President, Northeastern University | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 1980 (Jun 15) - am | White, Kevin H. | Mayor, Boston, Massachusetts | Doctor of Political Science |
| 1980 (Jun 15) - pm | Alexander, Joyce London | First African-American Woman appointed United States Magistrate | Doctor of Laws |
| 1980 (Jun 15) - pm | Fulham, Thomas Anthony | President, Suffolk University | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 1980 (Jun 15) - pm | Holmes, William J. | President, Simmons College | Doctor of Letters |
| 1980 (Jun 15) - pm | Morris, Rudolph Magnus, BA '32 | Dean, University Administration, Northeastern University | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 1980 (Jun 15) - pm | Stearns, Russell B. | President, Arthur Perry and Company | Doctor of Laws |
| 1980 (Jun 15) - pm | King, Edward J. | Governor, Massachusetts | Doctor of Science |
| 1980 (Sep 8) | [no honorary degrees conferred] | ||
| 1981 (May 30) (Law) | Kaplan, Benjamin | Associate Justice, Supreme Judicial Court, Massachusetts | None |
| 1981 (Jun 21) - am | Athanas, Anthony | Founder and President, Anthony's Fine Restaurants | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 1981 (Jun 21) - am | Cabot, Maryellen | Chairman, Board of Trustees, Boston Ballet Company | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 1981 (Jun 21) - am | Early, Joseph D. | Representative, Third Congressional District, Massachusetts | Doctor of Public Service |
| 1981 (Jun 21) - am | Golemme, Joseph M. | Harold A. Mock Professor of Accounting, Northeastern University | Doctor of Commercial Science |
| 1981 (Jun 21) - am | Gray, Paul Edward | President, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Doctor of Engineering |
| 1981 (Jun 21) - am | Schlesinger, Arthur M., Jr. | Albert Schweitzer Professor of Humanities, City University of New York | Doctor of Letters |
| 1981 (Jun 21) - am | Stata, Ray | Founder, President, and Chairman of the Board, Analog Devices, Inc. | Doctor of Engineering |
| 1981 (Jun 21) - pm | Ryder, Kenneth Gilmore | President, Northeastern University | None |
| 1981 (Jun 21) - pm | Avery, Mary Ellen | Physician-in-Chief, Children's Hospital Medical Center | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 1981 (Jun 21) - pm | Edelman, Marian Wright | Founder and Director, Children's Defense Fund | Doctor of Public Service |
| 1981 (Jun 21) - pm | Johnston, Philip | Executive Director, CARE | Doctor of Public Service |
| 1981 (Jun 21) - pm | O'Keefe, Bernard J. | Founder, Chairman, and Chief Executive Officer, E. G. & G., Inc. | Doctor of Public Service |
| 1981 (Jun 21) - pm | Zises, Alvin C. | President, PruLease (retired) | Doctor of Laws |
| 1981 (Sep 17) | [no honorary degrees conferred] | ||
| 1982 (May 29) (Law) | Bazelon, Hon. David L. | Senior Circuit Judge, Court of Appeals, United States | Doctor of Laws |
| 1982 (Jun 20) - am | Cogan, David H. | Vice Chairman of the Board, Sheller-Globe Corporation | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 1982 (Jun 20) - am | Goldberg, Avram Jacob | President, Chief Executive Officer, and Director, Stop & Shop Companies, Inc. | Doctor of Laws |
| 1982 (Jun 20) - am | Hearth, Donald P. | Director, Langley Research Center, National Aeronautics and Space Administration | Doctor of Engineering |
| 1982 (Jun 20) - am | Johnson, John H. | Editor and Publisher, Ebony, Jet, and Ebony Jr. Magazines | Doctor of Journalism |
| 1982 (Jun 20) - am | Keith, Lyman Albert | Chairman, Management, Northeastern University | Doctor of Business Administration |
| 1982 (Jun 20) - am | O'Neill, Thomas P., Jr. | Speaker of the House, United States House of Representatives | Doctor of Political Science |
| 1982 (Jun 20) - pm | Higgins, Sr. Therese, C.S.J. | President, Regis College | Doctor of Laws |
| 1982 (Jun 20) - pm | Lawson, John H. | Commissioner of Education, Massachusetts | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 1982 (Jun 20) - pm | Taylor, William O. | Publisher, Chairman of the Board, and Director, Boston Globe | Doctor of Journalism |
| 1982 (Jun 20) - pm | Tredinnick, Frank A., Jr. | Executive Director, Association of Independent Colleges and Universities in Massachusetts | Doctor of Public Service |
| 1982 (Jun 20) - pm | Williams, John Towner | Oscar-Winning Composer; Conductor, Boston Pops Orchestra | Doctor of Fine Arts |
| 1982 (Sep 16) | [no honorary degrees conferred] | ||
| 1983 (May 29) (Law) | Clark, Ramsey | Former Attorney General, United States | Doctor of Laws |
| 1983 (Jun 19) - am | Appley, Mortimer Herbert | President, Clark University | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 1983 (Jun 19) - am | Bell, Terrel Howard | Secretary, United States Department of Education | Doctor of Public Service |
| 1983 (Jun 19) - am | Essigmann, Martin White | Professor and Chairman, Electrical Engineering, Northeastern University (retired) | Doctor of Engineering |
| 1983 (Jun 19) - am | Phillips, John David | President and Chief Executive Officer, National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities | Doctor of Laws |
| 1983 (Jun 19) - pm | Cahners, Norman L. | Foundation Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Cahners Publishing Company | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 1983 (Jun 19) - pm | Duff, John B. | Chancellor of the Board of Regents of Higher Education, Massachusetts | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 1983 (Jun 19) - pm | English, James Fairfield, Jr. | President, Trinity College | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 1983 (Jun 19) - pm | Simon, Hon. Paul | Representative, 24th Congressional District, Illinois | Doctor of Public Service |
| 1983 (Jun 19) - pm | Wolfman, Brunetta Reid | President, Roxbury Community College | Doctor of Pedagogy |
| 1983 (Sep 15) | [no honorary degrees conferred] | ||
| 1984 (May 27) (Law) | Brooks, John G. | Senior Partner, Peabody & Arnold Law Firm | Doctor of Laws |
| 1984 (May 27) (Law) | O'Toole, Thomas J. | Dean, School of Law, Northeastern University | Doctor of Laws |
| 1984 (May 27) (Law) | Chisholm, Shirley A. | Representative, 12th Congressional District, New York | Doctor of Laws |
| 1984 (Jun 17) - am | Dukakis, Michael S. | Governor, Massachusetts | Doctor of Public Service |
| 1984 (Jun 17) - am | Gaither, Edmund Barry | Director and Curator, Museum of the National Center of Afro-American Artists | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 1984 (Jun 17) - am | Hiatt, Howard H. | Dean, School of Public Health, Harvard University | Doctor of Science |
| 1984 (Jun 17) - am | Willis, Robert Henry | Chairman, Corporation and Board of Trustees, Northeastern University | Doctor of Science |
| 1984 (Jun 17) - pm | Beranek, Leo Leroy | Director, Bolt Beranek and Newman, Inc. | Doctor of Public Service |
| 1984 (Jun 17) - pm | Eisner, Janet Margaret, SND | President, Emmanuel College | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 1984 (Jun 17) - pm | Fanning, Katherine | Editor, Christian Science Monitor | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 1984 (Jun 17) - pm | Wang, An | Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer, Wang Laboratories, Inc. | Doctor of Science |
| 1984 (Sep 13) | Feingold, Murray, M.D. | Professor and Pediatrician, Tufts New England Medical Center | Doctor of Journalism |
| 1984 (Sep 13) | Orr, Robert G. | Highest Scoring Defenseman in the National Hockey League with the Boston Bruins and the Chicago Black Hawks | Doctor of Humanities |
| 1984 (Sep 13) | Updike, John Hoyer | Author | Doctor of Letters |
| 1985 (May 26) (Law) | Abrahamson, Shirley S. | First Female Justice, Supreme Court, Wisconsin | Doctor of Laws |
| 1985 (May 26) (Law) | Bell, Derrick A., Jr. | Dean and Professor, School Law, University of Oregon | Doctor of Laws |
| 1985 (May 26) (Law) | Kinoy, Arthur | Professor, School of Law, Rutgers University | Doctor of Laws |
| 1985 (Jun 16) - am | Johnston, Philip | Executive Director, CARE | None |
| 1985 (Jun 16) - am | Everett, Robert R. | President and Chief Executive Officer, MITRE Corporation | Doctor of Engineering |
| 1985 (Jun 16) - am | Ford, William D. | Representative, 15th Congressional District, Michigan | Doctor of Laws |
| 1985 (Jun 16) - am | Pruyn, William James | President and Chief Executive Officer, Eastern Gas and Fuel | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 1985 (Jun 16) - am | Wooldridge, Roy L. | Vice President, Cooperative Education, Northeastern University | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 1985 (Jun 16) - am | Wright, Douglas Tyndall | President and Vice Chancellor, University of Waterloo, Ontario | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 1985 (Jun 16) - pm | Hennessey, Hon. Edward Francis | Chief Justice, Supreme Judicial Court, Massachusetts | None |
| 1985 (Jun 16) - pm | Branson, Herman Russell | President, Lincoln University | Doctor of Science |
| 1985 (Jun 16) - pm | Farwell, Frank L. | Honorary Chairman and Director, Liberty Mutual Insurance Company | Doctor of Humanities |
| 1985 (Jun 16) - pm | Smith, Donald Winthrop | Chairman, Executive Committee, Singer Company | Doctor of Engineering |
| 1985 (Jun 16) - pm | Walker-Taylor, Yvonne | President, Wilberforce University | Doctor of Pedagogy |
| 1985 (Sep 12) | Goodwin, Doris K. | American Historian; Professor, Government, Harvard University | None |
| 1985 (Sep 12) | Hentoff, Nathan | Board of Directors, American Civil Liberties Union; Social, Literary, and Music Critic | None |
| 1985 (Sep 12) | Ma, Yo-Yo | Cellist | Doctor of Fine Arts |
| 1986 (May 25) (Law) | Caldicott, Helen | Professor, Harvard University | Doctor of Laws |
| 1986 (May 25) (Law) | Chambers, Julius L. | Head, NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund | Doctor of Laws |
| 1986 (May 25) (Law) | Garrity, W. Arthur, Jr. | United States District Judge | Doctor of Laws |
| 1986 (Jun 26) - am | Dole, Elizabeth Hanford | Secretary, United States Department of Transportation | None |
| 1986 (Jun 26) - am | Fuchs, Job E. | Director, Lane Health Center, Notheastern University | Doctor of Humanities |
| 1986 (Jun 26) - am | Lukas, J. Anthony | Pulitzer Prize-Winning Journalist | Doctor of Letters |
| 1986 (Jun 26) - am | Trigg, D. Thomas | President, Shawmut Bank of Boston | Doctor of Public Service |
| 1986 (Jun 26) - pm | Bulger, William Michael | President, Massachusetts Senate | None |
| 1986 (Jun 26) - pm | Hopper, Grace Murray | Rear Admiral, United States Navy | Doctor of Military Science |
| 1986 (Jun 26) - pm | Knapp, David Curtis | President, University of Massachusetts | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 1986 (Jun 26) - pm | Matthews, George James | Chairman, Nuclear Metals, Inc.; Corporator and Trustee, Northeastern University | Doctor of Humanities |
| 1986 (Sep 18) | Bloch, Julia Chang | Chief Minority Council, United States International Communications Agency | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 1986 (Sep 18) | Flynn, Raymond L. | Mayor, Boston, Massachusetts | Doctor of Public Service |
| 1986 (Sep 18) | Stoessel, Walter J., Jr. | Ambassador, United States Foreign Service | Doctor of Public Service |
| 1987 (May 24) (Law) | Cargill, Thomas E., Jr. | Senior Partner, Cargill, Masterman & Culbert Law Firm | Doctor of Laws |
| 1987 (May 24) (Law) | Huber, Richard G. | Dean, School of Law, Boston College | Doctor of Laws |
| 1987 (May 24) (Law) | Lewis, Anthony | Pulitzer Prize-Winning Journalist | Doctor of Laws |
| 1987 (Jun 21) - am | Frank, Hon. Barney | Representative, Fourth Congressional District, Massachusetts | None |
| 1987 (Jun 21) - am | Bromsen, Maury Austin | Head, Bromsen Associates | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 1987 (Jun 21) - am | Parker, Robert B. | Novelist; Professor, English, Northeastern University | Doctor of Letters |
| 1987 (Jun 21) - am | Wallace, Phyllis Ann | Professor Emerita, Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 1987 (Jun 21) - pm | Cisneros, Hon. Henry G. | Mayor, San Antonio, Texas | None |
| 1987 (Jun 21) - pm | Hennessey, Edward L., Jr. | Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer, Allied-Signal, Inc. | Doctor of Commercial Science |
| 1987 (Jun 21) - pm | Verrett, Shirley | Opera Singer | Doctor of Music |
| 1987 (Sep 17) | Ho, Lee Hee | Former President, Center for Women's Problems, Korea | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 1987 (Sep 17) | Karnovsky, Shirley | Founder, Youth Outreach Program | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 1987 (Sep 17) | Murphy, Evelyn F. | Lieutenant Governor, Massachusetts | Doctor of Public Service |
| 1987 (Sep 17) | MacDougall, Roderick M. | Treasurer and Member of the Governing Boards, Harvard University | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 1988 (May 29) (Law) | Mandela, Nelson Rolihlahla | President, African National Congress; Anti-Apartheid Activist | Doctor of Laws |
| 1988 (May 29) (Law) | Carter, Robert L. | Judge, United States District Court, Southern District of New York | Doctor of Laws |
| 1988 (May 29) (Law) | Healey, John G. | Executive Director, Amnesty International USA; President, Concerts for Human Rights Foundation | Doctor of Laws |
| 1988 (May 29) (Law) | Totenberg, Nina | Legal Affairs Correspondent, National Public Radio | Doctor of Laws |
| 1988 (Jun 19) - am | Bombeck, Erma Louise | Author; Journalist; Former Member, President's Advisory Committee on Women | None |
| 1988 (Jun 19) - am | Gould, Stephen Jay | Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology, Harvard University; Curator, Harvard University Museum of Comparative Zoology | Doctor of Humanities |
| 1988 (Jun 19) - am | Hampton, Henry E. | Founder and President, Blackside, Inc. | Doctor of Arts |
| 1988 (Jun 19) - am | Kariotis, George S. | Founder, Alpha Industries; Former Secretary of Economic Affairs, Massachusetts | Doctor of Engineering |
| 1988 (Jun 19) - pm | Willis, Robert H. | Chairman, Chief Executive Officer, and Director, Connecticut Natural Gas Company (retired) | None |
| 1988 (Jun 19) - pm | Kurzweil, Raymond C. | Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Kurzweil Applied Intelligence, Inc. and Kurzweil Music Systems Inc. | Doctor of Science |
| 1988 (Jun 19) - pm | Low, K. Prescott | Vice President, Inland Daily Press Association | Doctor of Journalism |
| 1988 (Jun 19) - pm | Roberts, Daniel J. | Senior Vice President and Treasurer, Northeastern University | Doctor of Laws |
| 1988 (Jun 19) - pm | Ross, Stephan B. | Founder, Fredom Memorial, Inc. | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 1988 (Sep 15) | Bradstreet, Raymond Bradford | Founder, Bradstreet Laboratories; Supervisor, Chemical Laboratory, United States Testing Company | Doctor of Science |
| 1988 (Sep 15) | Zraket, Charles A. | President and Chief Executive Officer, MITRE Corporation | Doctor of Engineering |
| 1989 (May 28) (Law) | Jones, Elaine | Deputy Director, NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund, Inc. | Doctor of Laws |
| 1989 (Jun 17) - am | Asner, Edward | Former President, Screen Actors Guild; Founder, L.A. Classic Theatre Works | Doctor of Humanities |
| 1989 (Jun 17) - am | Batson, Ruth Marion | Former President and Executive Director, Boston Museum of African-American History | Doctor of Pedagogy |
| 1989 (Jun 17) - am | Brown, William L. | Former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Bank of Boston Corporation | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 1989 (Jun 17) - am | Cohen, Morris | Professor Emeritus, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Doctor of Science |
| 1989 (Jun 17) - am | Ulmann, Liv | Goodwill Ambassador, United Nations Children's Fund; Actress; Author | Doctor of Arts |
| 1989 (Jun 17) - pm | Bernays, Edward L. | Former Professor, Public Relations, Boston University; Public Relations Counsel to numerous federal agencies | Doctor of Public Service |
| 1989 (Jun 17) - pm | Elfers, William | Chairman, Board of Overseers, Northeastern University | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 1989 (Jun 17) - pm | Johnson, Edward C., III | Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board, Fidelity Investments | Doctor of Commercial Science |
| 1989 (Jun 17) - pm | Mahidol, Chulabhorn | Visiting Professor of Medicinal Chemistry and Pharmacognosy, University of Illinois at Chicago | Doctor of Science |
| 1989 (Jun 17) - pm | Picard, Dennis J. | President, Raytheon | Doctor of English |
| 1989 (Sep 14) | LaWare, John P. | Member, Board of Governors, Federal Reserve System | Doctor of Political Science |
| 1989 (Sep 14) | Lowell, John | Director and Executive Vice President, Welch & Forbes | Doctor of Public Service |
| 1989 (Sep 14) | Norris, William C. | Founder and Chairman Emeritus of the Board of Directors, Control Data Corporation | Doctor of Engineering |
| 1990 (May 27) (Law) | Wattleton, Faye | President, Planned Parenthood Federation of America | Doctor of Laws |
| 1990 (May 27) (Law) | Brutus, Dennis Vincent | Poet; Activist | Doctor of Laws |
| 1990 (May 27) (Law) | Tiernan, Kip | Founder, Rosie's Place | Doctor of Laws |
| 1990 (Jun 16) - am | Fireman, Paul | Chair, Reebok International, Ltd. | Doctor of Humanities |
| 1990 (Jun 16) - am | Allen, William F., Jr. | Chair and Chief Executive Officer, Stone & Webster, Inc. | Doctor of Engineering |
| 1990 (Jun 16) - am | Ferguson, Vernice D. | Director of Nursing and Deputy Assistant Chief Medical Director, United States Veterans Administration | Doctor of Public Service |
| 1990 (Jun 16) - am | Horowitz, Morris A. | Professor, Economics, Northeastern University | Doctor of Humanities |
| 1990 (Jun 16) - pm | Brazelton, Thomas Berry | Member, Governor's Advisory Council on the Family, Boston, Massachusetts | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 1990 (Jun 16) - pm | Cobb, Jewel Plummer | President, California State University at Fullteron | Doctor of Science |
| 1990 (Jun 16) - pm | Heney, Joseph Edward | President, Chair, and Chief Executive Officer, Camp Dreser & McKee | Doctor of Engineering |
| 1990 (Jun 16) - pm | Tagliabue, Paul J. | Commissioner, National Football League | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 1990 (Jun 16) - pm | Tauro, Joseph L. | United States District Court Judge, Massachusetts | Doctor of Laws |
| 1990 (Sep 13) | Ashe, Arthur, Jr. | Championship-Winning Tennis Player; Author | Doctor of Public Service |
| 1990 (Sep 13) | Coppersmith, S. James | President and General Manager, WCVB-TV Channel 5 | Doctor of Journalism |
| 1990 (Sep 13) | Loftman, Kenneth Astley | Corporate Director of Government Relations, Cabot Corporation of Boston | Doctor of Science |
| 1991 (May 24) (Law) | Bell, Derrick | Weld Professor of Law, Harvard University | None |
| 1991 (May 24) (Law) | Auger, Diana J. | Former President, National Association of Women Lawyers | Doctor of Laws |
| 1991 (May 24) (Law) | Liacos, Hon. Paul J. | Chief Justice, Supreme Judicial Court, Massachusetts | Doctor of Laws |
| 1991 (Jun 15) - am | Bush, Barbara Pierce | First Lady; Literacy Advocate | Doctor of Public Service |
| 1991 (Jun 15) - am | Mavroules, Nicholas | Representative, Sixth Congressional District, Massachusetts | Doctor of Political Science |
| 1991 (Jun 15) - am | Neal, Richard I. | Brigadier General, United States Marines | Doctor of Military Science |
| 1991 (Jun 15) - am | Rosenblatt, Norman | Dean, College of Criminal Justice, Northeastern University | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 1991 (Jun 15) - am | Solomon, Bernard | Vice-Chair Elect, Board of Trustees, Northeastern University | Doctor of Public Service |
| 1991 (Jun 15) - pm | Love, Susan Margaret, M.D. | Founder, Faulkner Brest Centre; Clinical Associate in Surgical Oncology, Dana Farber Cancer Institute | Doctor of Science |
| 1991 (Jun 15) - pm | Bateman, Robert | Artist | Doctor of Fine Arts |
| 1991 (Jun 15) - pm | Krentzman, Harvey "Chet" | Trustee, Boston Symphony Orchestra; Trustee, Northeastern University | Doctor of Business Administration |
| 1991 (Jun 15) - pm | White, William D. | Sportscaster; Professional Baseball Player | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 1991 (Sep 12) | Kushner, Harold S. | Author; Lecturer | Doctor of Humanities |
| 1991 (Sep 12) | Hogan, William T. | President, University of Lowell | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 1991 (Sep 12) | Murtha, John P. | Representative, 12th Congressional District, Pennsylvania | Doctor of Political Science |
| 1992 (May 22) (Law) | Totenberg, Nina | Legal Affairs Correspondent, National Public Radio | None |
| 1992 (May 22) (Law) | Ehrmann, Sara R. | Capital Punishment Abolitionist | Doctor of Laws |
| 1992 (May 22) (Law) | Henry, Aaron E. | President, Mississippi State Conference, NAACP; Member, Board of Directors, NAACP | Doctor of Laws |
| 1992 (Jun 20) - am | Gray, William H., III | Representative, Second Congressional District, Pennsylvania | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 1992 (Jun 20) - am | Henderson, Ernest, III | Chairman of the Board, Henderson Houses of America, Inc. | Doctor of Public Service |
| 1992 (Jun 20) - am | Rowlands, Jeanne L. | Director, Women's Athletics, Northeastern University | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 1992 (Jun 20) - am | Silber, John R. | President, Boston University | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 1992 (Jun 20) - pm | Sullivan, Leon Howard | Founder, Opportunities Industrialization Centers | Doctor of Divinity |
| 1992 (Jun 20) - pm | Briscoe, Benjamin Andrew | Member, Parliament, Ireland | Doctor of Political Science |
| 1992 (Jun 20) - pm | Wooden, Ruth A. | President, Advertising Council, Northeastern University | Doctor of Public Service |
| 1992 (Sep 17) | Angelou, Maya | Author | Doctor of Fine Arts |
| 1992 (Sep 17) | Roosevelt, Anna Curtenius | Anthropologist; Curator of Archaeology, Field Museum of Natural History | Doctor of Science |
| 1992 (Sep 17) | Walsh, Martin F. | Corporator, Northeastern University | Doctor of Commercial Science |
| 1993 (May 28) (Law) | Frank, Barney | Representative, Fourth Congressional District, Massachusetts | None |
| 1993 (May 28) (Law) | Dunn, Dr. Martin J. | Humanitarian, Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery | Doctor of Laws |
| 1993 (May 28) (Law) | MacKinnon, Catharine A. | Professor, Law School, University of Michigan | Doctor of Laws |
| 1993 (Jun 19) - am | Clinton, William Jefferson | President, United States | Doctor of Public Service |
| 1993 (Jun 19) - am | Childers, John Barton | Vice President of Regions and Government Affairs, The College Board | Doctor of Political Science |
| 1993 (Jun 19) - am | Ahmad, Dato' Dr. Abdullah Sanusi | Vice President of Human Resource Management, PETRONAS | Doctor of Laws |
| 1993 (Jun 19) - am | Waters, James L. | Owner, Waters Associates, Inc. | Doctor of Science |
| 1993 (Jun 19) - pm | Levine, Irving R. | Chief Economics Correspondent, NBC News | Doctor of Laws |
| 1993 (Jun 19) - pm | Bassuk, Ellen Linda, M.D. | Associate Professor of Psychology, Harvard Medical School | Doctor of Public Service |
| 1993 (Jun 19) - pm | O'Brien, Paul Charles | President and CEO of the New England Telephone and Telegraph Company | Doctor of Laws |
| 1993 (Jun 19) - pm | Stone, Galen Luther | Chairman, Board of Overseers, Northeastern University | Doctor of Political Science |
| 1993 (Jun 19) - pm | Weiss, Karl | Director, External Relations, Massachusetts Microelectronics Center | Doctor of Science |
| 1993 (Sep 14) | Curtin, Jane | Actor, Paramount Pictures | Doctor of Arts |
| 1993 (Sep 14) | McDonough, Will | Sportswriter, Boston Globe | Doctor of Journalism |
| 1993 (Sep 14) | Wong, William | Owner, Kowloon Restaurant | Doctor of Public Service |
| 1994 (May 27) (Law) | Guinier, Lani | Writer, The Tyranny of the Majority | Doctor of Civil Law |
| 1994 (May 27) (Law) | Lapchick, Richard E. | Founder and Director, Center for the Study of Sport in Society, Northeastern University | Doctor of Laws |
| 1994 (Jun 18) - am | Harris-Lewis, Donna | Widow, Reggie Lewis | None |
| 1994 (Jun 18) - am | Lewis, Reggie | Basketball Player, Boston Celtics (Posthumous) | Doctor of Humanities |
| 1994 (Jun 18) - am | Kartasasmita, Ginandjar | Minister of State, National Development Planning, Indonesia | Doctor of Public Service |
| 1994 (Jun 18) - am | Rabkin, Mitchell T. | President, Beth Israel Hospital, Boston | Doctor of Science |
| 1994 (Jun 18) - am | Tobin, Alan D. | Partner, Tobin & Waldstein | Doctor of Laws |
| 1994 (Jun 18) - am | Wharton, Clifton R., Jr. | Former chair and CEO, TIAA-CREF | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 1994 (Jun 18) - pm | Deutch, John M. | Deputy Secretary, United States Defense Department | Doctor of Public Service |
| 1994 (Jun 18) - pm | Cotton, Clare M. | President, Association of Independent Colleges and Universities in Massachusetts | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 1994 (Jun 18) - pm | Hiatt, Arnold S. | Head, Stride Rite Foundation | Doctor of Public Service |
| 1994 (Jun 18) - pm | Parks, Paul, Sr. | President, Paul Parks and Associates | Doctor of Engineering |
| 1994 (Jun 18) - pm | Shaw, Bernard | Anchor, CNN | Doctor of Journalism |
| 1994 (Sep 13) | Sweeney, Stephen J. | Retired Chairman and CEO, Boston Edison Company | Doctor of Public Service |
| 1994 (Sep 13) | Hatch, Francis W. | Chairman, John Merck Foundation | Doctor of Humanities |
| 1994 (Sep 13) | Lesser, Laurence | President, New England Conservatory of Music | Doctor of Music |
| 1995 (May 26) (Law) | Hentoff, Nat | Staff Writer, New Yorker | None |
| 1995 (May 26) (Law) | Brown, Michael H. | Co-Founder and Co-Director, City Year | Doctor of Public Service |
| 1995 (May 26) (Law) | Khazei, Alan Amir Ali | Co-Founder and Co-Director, City Year | Doctor of Public Service |
| 1995 (May 26) (Law) | Lewis, John | Congressman, Fifth District, Georgia | Doctor of Public Service |
| 1995 (Jun 17) - am | Weld, William Floyd | Governor, Massachusetts | Doctor of Letters |
| 1995 (Jun 17) - am | Egan, Richard J. | Co-founder and Chairman, EMC, Inc. | Doctor of Laws |
| 1995 (Jun 17) - am | Grace, Helen K. | Special Assistant to the CEO, W. K. Kellogg Foundation | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 1995 (Jun 17) - am | Robinson, Rachel Annetta | Founder and Chairperson, Jackie Robinson Foundation | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 1995 (Jun 17) - am | Thomas, Helen | Reporter, United Press International | Doctor of Journalism |
| 1995 (Jun 17) - am | Ockerbloom, Richard C. | Vice Chairman, Boston Globe (retired) | Doctor of Laws |
| 1995 (Jun 17) - am | Poe, Sheri | President and CEO, Ryka, Inc. | Doctor of Commercial Science |
| 1995 (Jun 17) - am | Reppucci, Eugene M., Jr. | Senior Vice President, Development Office, Northeastern University | Doctor of Humanities |
| 1995 (Sep 12) | Coles, Robert | Psychology Professor, Harvard University | Doctor of Letters |
| 1995 (Sep 12) | Crotty, Philip Thomas | Professor, Northeastern University | Doctor of Business Administration |
| 1995 (Sep 12) | Edgerly, William S. | Chairman and CEO, State Street Corporation (retired) | Doctor of Public Service |
| 1996 (May 23) (Law) | Higginbotham, Hon. A. Leon, Jr. | Chief Judge, United States Court of Appeals, Third Circuit | None |
| 1996 (May 23) (Law) | Fraser, Robert B. | Chairman, Goodwin, Proctor, and Hoar | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 1996 (May 23) (Law) | Hartle, Terry W. | Vice President of Governmental Relations, American Council of Education | Doctor of Laws |
| 1996 (Jun 15) - am | Sacco, Albert, Jr. | Astronaut | Doctor of Engineering |
| 1996 (Jun 15) - am | Curry, John A. | President, Northeastern University | Doctor of Public Service |
| 1996 (Jun 15) - am | Lipman, Ira A. | Owner and CEO, Guardsmark | Doctor of Laws |
| 1996 (Jun 15) - am | Marino, Roger M. | Co-Founder, EMC | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 1996 (Jun 15) - am | Menino, Thomas M. | Mayor, Boston, Massachusetts | Doctor of Public Service |
| 1996 (Jun 15) - pm | West, Cornel | Professor, Harvard University | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 1996 (Jun 15) - pm | Becton, Henry P., Jr. | President and General Manager, WGBH Educational Foundation | Doctor of Public Service |
| 1996 (Jun 15) - pm | Georgoulis, Stratton J. | President and CEO, TIC United Corporation | Doctor of Engineering |
| 1996 (Jun 15) - pm | Taylor, H. Patricia | Senior Vice President for Administration and Finance, Houghton Chemical Corporation | Doctor of Public Service |
| 1996 (Sep 12) | Heard, Marian L. | President and CEO, United Way | Doctor of Divinity |
| 1996 (Sep 12) | Brooks, Robert A. | Founder and CEO, Brooks Telecommunications International | Doctor of Engineering |
| 1996 (Sep 12) | Castelli, William P. | Director, Framingham Heart Study | Doctor of Science |
| 1996 (Sep 12) | McIntyre, Keith L. | President, Mohawk College of Applied Arts and Technology | Doctor of Pedagogy |
| 1997 (May 23) (Law) | Williams, Patricia J. | Professor, Columbia University School of Law | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 1997 (May 23) (Law) | Driscoll, John P., Jr. | Former President, Boston Bar Association | Doctor of Public Service |
| 1997 (May 23) (Law) | Greenhouse, Linda Joyce | New York Times Correspondent, Supreme Court | Doctor of Laws |
| 1997 (Jun 14) - am | Cleland, Max | Senator, Georgia | Doctor of Public Service |
| 1997 (Jun 14) - am | Finneran, Thomas M. | Speaker of the House, Massachusetts Legislature | Doctor of Political Science |
| 1997 (Jun 14) - am | Gilligan, Carol | Professor, Harvard University | Doctor of Humanities |
| 1997 (Jun 14) - am | Marini, Robert Charles | Chairman and CEO, Camp Dresser & McKee | Doctor of Engineering |
| 1997 (Jun 14) - am | Mejía, Most Rev. Jorge María | Archbishop, Vatican | Doctor of Divinity |
| 1997 (Jun 14) - am | Price, Hugh B. | President and CEO, National Urban League | Doctor of Laws |
| 1997 (Jun 14) - pm | Kessler, David A. | Dean, Yale University School of Medicine | Doctor of Science |
| 1997 (Jun 14) - pm | Dove, Rita Frances | Consultant in Poetry, Library of Congress | Doctor of Letters |
| 1997 (Jun 14) - pm | Hewitt, Colby, Jr. | Chairman, Pioneer Institute for Public Policy Research | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 1997 (Jun 14) - pm | Marks, Bruce | Artistic Director, Boston Ballet (retired) | Doctor of Arts |
| 1997 (Sep 11) | Schaap, Richard J. | Host, ESPN | Doctor of Journalism |
| 1997 (Sep 11) | Gillin, Laurence Murray | Pro-Vice Chancellor, Swinburne University | Doctor of Pedagogy |
| 1997 (Sep 11) | Lynch, Peter S. | Vice Chairman, Fidelity Management and Research Company | Doctor of Commercial Science |
| 1997 (Sep 11) | Walker, Liz | Co-Anchor, CBS Boston | Doctor of Public Service |
| 1998 (May 22) (Law) | Kennedy, Edward M. | Senator, Massachusetts | None |
| 1998 (May 22) (Law) | Fabe, Hon. Dana | Supreme Court Justice, Alaska | Doctor of Laws |
| 1998 (May 22) (Law) | Ireland, Hon. Roderick L. | Supreme Court Justice, Massachusetts | Doctor of Laws |
| 1998 (Jun 20) - am | Gorbachev, Mikhail S. | Former President, Union of Soviet Socialist Republic; Nobel Peace Prize Recipient | Doctor of International Affairs |
| 1998 (Jun 20) - am | Cole, Johnnetta Betsch | Former President, Spelman College | Doctor of Public Service |
| 1998 (Jun 20) - am | Finnegan, Neal F. | President and CEO, USTrust | Doctor of Commercial Science |
| 1998 (Jun 20) - am | Gorbachev, Raisa Maksimovna | Former First Lady, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics | Doctor of Social Science |
| 1998 (Jun 20) - am | Lockhart, Keith | Conductor, Boston Pops | Doctor of Music |
| 1998 (Jun 20) - am | Riesman, David | Professor Emeritus, Harvard University | Doctor of Social Thought |
| 1998 (Jun 20) - pm | Richards, Ann W. | Former Governor, Texas | Doctor of Public Service |
| 1998 (Jun 20) - pm | Behrakis, George D. | President and CEO, Muro Pharmaceutical | Doctor of Health Science |
| 1998 (Jun 20) - pm | Franklin, John Hope | Professor Emeritus, Duke University | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 1998 (Jun 20) - pm | Fuller, Linda Caldwell | Co-Founder, Habitat for Humanity | Doctor of Public Service |
| 1998 (Jun 20) - pm | Fuller, Millard Dean | Co-Founder, Habitat for Humanity | Doctor of Public Service |
| 1998 (Jun 20) - pm | Ramelan, Rahardi | Minister of State, Research and Technology, Indonesia | Doctor of Public Service |
| 1998 (Sep 17) | Jones, Anna Faith | President and CEO, Boston Foundation | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 1998 (Sep 17) | Ramelan, Rahardi | Minister of State, Research and Technology, Indonesia | Doctor of Public Service |
| 1998 (Sep 17) | Rochefort, J. Spencer | Professor Emeritus, Northeastern University | Doctor of Engineering |
| 1998 (Sep 17) | Strom, Margot Stern | Executive Director, Facing History and Ourselves National Foundation | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 1999 (May 28) (Law) | Gertner, Hon. Nancy | Judge, United States District Court, District of Massachusetts | Doctor of Laws |
| 1999 (May 28) (Law) | Markey, Edward J. | Congressman, Seventh District, Massachusetts | Doctor of Laws |
| 1999 (May 28) (Law) | Prothrow-Stith, Deborah B. | Associate Dean, Harvard School of Public Health | Doctor of Public Service |
| 1999 (Jun 19) - am | Bond, Julian | Distinguished Scholar in Residence, American University | Doctor of Public Service |
| 1999 (Jun 19) - am | Campbell, Right Hon. A. Kim | Former Prime Minister, Canada | Doctor of Public Service |
| 1999 (Jun 19) - am | Cullinane, John J. | President, Cullinane Group | Doctor of Business Administration |
| 1999 (Jun 19) - am | McNeice, John A., Jr. | CEO, Colonial Group (retired) | Doctor of Business Administration |
| 1999 (Jun 19) - am | Wilmut, Ian | Researcher, Roslin Institute | Doctor of Science |
| 1999 (Jun 19) - pm | Lewis, John | Congressman, Fifth District, Georgia | None |
| 1999 (Jun 19) - pm | Garcia, Frieda | President, United South End Settlements | Doctor of Public Service |
| 1999 (Jun 19) - pm | Hatsopoulos, John N. | President, Thermo Electron Corporation | Doctor of Business Administration |
| 1999 (Jun 19) - pm | Wilson, William Julius | Professor, Harvard University | Doctor of Social Science |
| 1999 (Jun 19) - pm | Zakim, Leonard Paul | Executive Director, Anti-Defamation League, New England Region | Doctor of Public Service |
| 1999 (Sep 16) | Minehan, Cathy Elizabeth | President and CEO, Federal Reserve Bank, Boston, Massachusetts | Doctor of Public Service |
| 2000 (May 26) (Law) | Prejean, Sr. Helen, CSJ | Author, Dead Man Walking; 2-time Nobel Peace Prize nominee | Doctor of Public Service |
| 2000 (May 26) (Law) | Boyan, William L. | Vice Chairman, John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Company | Doctor of Community Service |
| 2000 (May 26) (Law) | Simmons, Ruth J. | President, Smith College | Doctor of Science in Education |
| 2000 (Jun 17) - am | Albright, Madeleine Korbel | Secretary of State, United States | Doctor of Public Service |
| 2000 (Jun 17) - am | Davis, Robert J. | President and CEO, Lycos, Inc. | Doctor of Business Administration |
| 2000 (Jun 17) - am | Shillman, Robert J. | Founder, President, and CEO, Cognex Corporation | Doctor of Business Administration |
| 2000 (Jun 17) - am | Takaki, Ronald | Professor, University of California- Berkeley | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 2000 (Jun 17) - am | Widnall, Sheila E. | Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Doctor of Public Service |
| 2000 (Jun 17) - pm | Kerry, John F. | Senator, Massachusetts | Doctor of Public Service |
| 2000 (Jun 17) - pm | Caruso, Nancy J. | Chairperson, North End Waterfront Central Artery Committee | Doctor of Community Service |
| 2000 (Jun 17) - pm | Gagosian, Robert Berj | Director, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution | Doctor of Science |
| 2000 (Jun 17) - pm | Rochin, Refugio I. | Director, Smithsonian Center for Latino Initiatives | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 2000 (Sep 12) | Fowler, Dr. William Morgan, Jr. | Director, Massachusetts Historical Society | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 2001 (May 25) (Law) | Jones, Nathaniel Raphael | Judge, United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit | Doctor of Laws |
| 2001 (May 25) (Law) | Hanlon, Sydney | First Justice, Dorchester District Court | Doctor of Laws |
| 2001 (May 25) (Law) | Southgate, Richard W. | Adjunct Professor, Northeastern University | Doctor of Public Service |
| 2001 (Jun 16) - am | Richardson, Bill | Secretary of Energy, United States; Nobel Peace Prize Nominee | Doctor of Public Service |
| 2001 (Jun 16) - am | Hidalgo, Diego | President and Chairman, Fund for Research and Investment for the Development of Africa | Doctor of Journalism |
| 2001 (Jun 16) - am | Kaufman, Nancy K. | Executive Director, Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Boston | Doctor of Public Service |
| 2001 (Jun 16) - am | Kramer, Donald J. | Director, Micro Component Technology | Doctor of Business Administration |
| 2001 (Jun 16) - am | Patterson, Orlando | Professor, Harvard University | Doctor of Letters |
| 2001 (Jun 16) - pm | Kanter, Elizabeth Moss | Professor, Harvard University | Doctor of Business Administration |
| 2001 (Jun 16) - pm | Abele, John E. | Founder, Boston Scientific Corporation | Doctor of Science |
| 2001 (Jun 16) - pm | Chu, David, Yu-Lin | Legislative Councilor, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region | Doctor of Public Service |
| 2001 (Jun 16) - pm | Jackson, Shirley Ann | President, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute | Doctor of Engineering |
| 2001 (Sep 11 - Postponed) | Ellis, David W. | President, Boston Museum of Science | Doctor of Public Service |
| 2001 (Sep 11 - Postponed) | Short, Janet M. | Principal, Maurice J. Tobin School, Boston, Massachusetts (retired) | Doctor of Public Service |
| 2002 | Payzant, Thomas | Superintendent, Boston Public Schools | Doctor of Pedagogy |
| 2002 (May 24) (Law) | Patrick, Deval L. | Executive Vice President and General Counsel, Coca-Cola Corporation | Doctor of Laws |
| 2002 (May 24) (Law) | Charren, Peggy | Scholar, Harvard University | Doctor of Public Service |
| 2002 (Jun 15) - am | Egan, Richard J. | Ambassador to Ireland, Co-founder, EMC Corporation | None |
| 2002 (Jun 15) - am | Brudnick, Irving S. | Board of Trustees, Northeastern University | Doctor of Public Service |
| 2002 (Jun 15) - am | Gaviria, Cesar | Former President, Colombia | Doctor of Civil Law |
| 2002 (Jun 15) - am | Lawrence-Lightfoot, Sara | Professor, Harvard University | Doctor of Pedagogy |
| 2002 (Jun 15) - am | McCullough, David | Author | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 2002 (Jun 15) - pm | Ellis, David W. | President, Boston Museum of Science | Doctor of Science |
| 2002 (Jun 15) - pm | Chandler, Alfred D., Jr. | Professor Emeritus, Harvard University | Doctor of Business Administration |
| 2002 (Jun 15) - pm | Haynes, C. Vincent | Chairperson Emeritus, Madison Park Development Corporation | Doctor of Public Service |
| 2002 (Jun 15) - pm | Short, Janet M. | Principal, Maurice J. Tobin School, Boston, Massachusetts (retired) | Doctor of Pedagogy |
| 2003 (May 23) (Law) | Marshall, Hon. Margaret Hilary | Chief Justice, Supreme Judicial Court, Massachusetts | Doctor of Laws |
| 2003 (May 23) (Law) | Neufeld, Peter J. | Co-Founder, Innocence Project | Doctor of Public Service |
| 2003 (May 23) (Law) | Scheck, Barry C. | Co-Founder, Innocence Project | Doctor of Public Service |
| 2003 (Jun 14) - am | Whitman, Christine Todd | Director, United States Enviornmental Protection Agency | Doctor of Public Service |
| 2003 (Jun 14) - am | Ikenberry, Stanley O. | Former President, American Council on Education | Doctor of Education |
| 2003 (Jun 14) - am | Tempel, Jean Curtin | Managing Director, First Light Capital, LLC | Doctor of Business Administration |
| 2003 (Jun 14) - am | Tyson, Neil de Grasse | Director, Hayden Planetarium | Doctor of Science |
| 2003 (Jun 14) - am | Wilson, Brian Douglas | Musician, Beach Boys | Doctor of Music |
| 2003 (Jun 14) - pm | Werner, Thomas C. | Chairman and Co-Owner, Boston Red Sox | Doctor of Business Administration |
| 2003 (Jun 14) - pm | Hammond, Rev. Dr. Ray A. | Co-Founder and President, TenPoint Coalition | Doctor of Public Service |
| 2003 (Jun 14) - pm | Henry, John W. | Co-Owner, Boston Red Sox | Doctor of Business Administration |
| 2003 (Jun 14) - pm | Walsh, Diana Chapman | President, Wellesley College | Doctor of Education |
| 2003 (Sep 4) | Martin, Ralph C., II | Partner, Bingham McCutcheon, LLP | Doctor of Public Service |
| 2004 (May 1) - am | Carmona, Richard Henry | Surgeon General, United States Public Health Service | Doctor of Public Service |
| 2004 (May 1) - am | Ifill, Gwen | Moderator and Managing Editor, Washington Week | Doctor of Journalism |
| 2004 (May 1) - am | Sample, Steven Browning | President, University of Southern California | Doctor of Education |
| 2004 (May 1) - am | Tucci, Joseph M. | President and CEO, EMC Corporation | Doctor of Business Administration |
| 2004 (May 1) - pm | Goodman, Ellen | Reporter, Boston Globe; Pulitzer Prize Winner | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 2004 (May 1) - pm | Folkman, Judah | Surgeon-in-Chief, Emeritus, and Director, Surgical Research Laboratory, Children's Hospital Boston | Doctor of Science |
| 2004 (May 1) - pm | Kraft, Myra Hiatt | President, New England Patriots Charitable Foundation | Doctor of Public Service |
| 2004 (May 1) - pm | Kraft, Robert | Owner, Kraft Group, New England Patriots | Doctor of Public Service |
| 2004 (May 1) - pm | Volpe, Mark | Managing Director, Boston Symphony Orchestra | Doctor of Music |
| 2004 (May 28) (Law) | Bright, Stephen B | Director, Southern Center for Human Rights | Doctor of Public Service |
| 2004 (May 28) (Law) | Feuerstein, Aaron M. | President and CEO, Malden Mills | Doctor of Public Service |
| 2004 (May 28) (Law) | Roberts, Hon. Victoria A. | Federal Judge, Eastern District of Michigan | Doctor of Laws |
| 2004 (Sep 2) | Jenkins-Scott, Jackie | President, Wheelock College | Doctor of Public Service |
| 2005 (Apr 30) - am | Panetta, Leon E. | Co-Director, Leon & Sylvia Panetta Institute for Public Policy | Doctor of Public Service |
| 2005 (Apr 30) - am | Cantor, Nancy | President, Syracuse University | Doctor of Education |
| 2005 (Apr 30) - am | Evers-Williams, Myrlie | Former Chairwoman, NAACP; widow, Medgar Evers | Doctor of Public Service |
| 2005 (Apr 30) - am | Hollis, Walter W. | Deputy Undersecretary, Operations Research, United States Army | Doctor of Science |
| 2005 (Apr 30) - am | Ruettgers, Michael C. | Chairman, EMC Corporation | Doctor of Business Administration |
| 2005 (Apr 30) - pm | Lander, Eric Steven | Founding Director, Broad Institute, Massachusettes Institute of Technology | Doctor of Science |
| 2005 (Apr 30) - pm | Jones, Clarence J. | Chairman, Boston Redevelopment Authority | Doctor of Public Service |
| 2005 (Apr 30) - pm | Larson, Gloria Cordes | Cochair, Government Practices Group, Foley Hoag, LLP | Doctor of Laws |
| 2005 (Apr 30) - pm | Snowe, Hon. Olympia J. | Senator, Maine | Doctor of Public Service |
| 2005 (May 27) (Law) | Chambers, Julius L. | Distinguished Professor, North Carolina Central University | None |
| 2005 (May 27) (Law) | Arterton, Hon. Janet Bond | United States District Judge, District of Connecticut | Doctor of Laws |
| 2005 (Sep 1) | Robinson, Walter V. | Editor, Boston Globe | Doctor of Journalism |
| 2006 (May 6) - am | Immelt, Jeffery R. | CEO, General Electric | Doctor of Business Administration |
| 2006 (May 6) - am | Coleman, Mary Sue | President, University of Michigan | Doctor of Education |
| 2006 (May 6) - am | Freeland, Richard M. | President, Northeastern University | Doctor of Education |
| 2006 (May 6) - am | LaFeber, Walter | Professor, Cornell University | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 2006 (May 6) - am | Rossetti, Ronald Louis | President, Riverside Capital Partners | Doctor of Business Administration |
| 2006 (May 6) - am | Schmoke, Hon. Kurt L. | Dean, Howard University School of Law | Doctor of Public Service |
| 2006 (May 6) - pm | Burns, Hon. R. Nicholas | Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs, United States | Doctor of Public Service |
| 2006 (May 6) - pm | Massey, Walter E. | President, Morehouse College | Doctor of Science |
| 2006 (May 6) - pm | Mulcahy, Anne M. | Chairman and CEO, Xerox Corporation | Doctor of Business Administration |
| 2006 (May 6) - pm | Robinson, Raymond H. | Professor, Northeastern University | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 2006 (May 26) (Law) | Langa, Hon. Pius Nkonzo | Chief Justice, Republic of South Africa | Doctor of Public Service |
| 2006 (May 26) (Law) | Domini, Amy L. | Founder and CEO, Domini Social Investments | Doctor of Business Administration |
| 2006 (May 26) (Law) | Seligman, Joel | President, University of Rochester | Doctor of Laws |
| 2006 (Aug 31) | Jones, Hubert E. | Dean Emeritus, Boston University's School of Social Work | Doctor of Public Service |
| 2006 (Aug 31) | Bailey, Eric M. | President and CEO, NeuroLogica Corporation | Doctor of Biomedical Engineering |
| 2007 (May 5) - am | Negroponte, Dr. Nicholas | Founder and Chairman, One Laptop Per Child | Doctor of Public Service |
| 2007 (May 5) - am | Gordon, Dr. Bernard | Co-Founder, NeuroLogica Corporation | Doctor of Science |
| 2007 (May 5) - am | Manning, Dr. Sylvia | Chancellor, University of Illinois at Chicago | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 2007 (May 5) - pm | Prothrow-Stith, Dr. Deborah | Associate Dean and Professor, Harvard School of Public Health | None |
| 2007 (May 5) - pm | Chamillard, George W. | Chairman and CEO, Teradyne, Inc. (retired) | Doctor of Business Administration |
| 2007 (May 5) - pm | Kostas, George | Founder, Tesco, Inc. | Doctor of Science |
| 2007 (May 25) (Law) | Burnes, Hon. Nonnie S. | Commissioner, Division of Insurance, Massachusetts | Doctor of Public Service |
| 2007 (May 25) (Law) | Greco, Michael S. | Partner, Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Preston Gates Ellis, LLP | Doctor of Public Service |
| 2007 (May 25) (Law) | Sotomayor, Hon. Sonia | Judge, United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit | Doctor of Laws |
| 2007 (Aug 30) | Gruman, Jessie | Founder and President, Center for Advancement of Health | Doctor of Public Service |
| 2008 (May 2)- am | Cox, Christopher | Chairman, United States Securities and Exchange Commission | Doctor of Public Service |
| 2008 (May 2)- am | Cronin, Michael J. | Vice Chairman, Board of Trustees, Northeastern University | Doctor of Science |
| 2008 (May 2)- am | Manganaro, Anthony R. | Member, Board of Overseers, Northeastern University | Doctor of Public Service |
| 2008 (May 2)- am | Zimpher, Nacy L. | President, University of Cincinnati | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 2008 (May 2)- pm | Hurtado, Sylvia | Director and Professor, Higher Education Research Institute, UCLA | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 2008 (May 2)- pm | McHugh, Katherine S. | Senior Management, MassINC | Doctor of Laws |
| 2008 (May 2)- pm | Nasella, Henry J. | Partner, Landau, Nasella & Klatsky, LLC | Doctor of Commercial Science |
| 2008 (May 23) - Law | Breyer, Hon. Stephen G. | Associate Justice, United States Supreme Court | Doctor of Laws |
| 2008 (May 23) - Law | Botsford, Hon. Margot | Associate Justice, Supreme Judicial Court, Massachusetts | Doctor of Public Service |
| 2008 (Aug 28) | Zane, Ellen M. | President and CEO, Tufts Medical Center | None |
| 2008 (Aug 28) | Zane, Peter L. | Board of Directors, Adhesive Technologies | None |
| 2009 (May 1)- am | Cole, Kenneth D. | Founder and CEO, Kenneth Cole Productions | Doctor of Public Service |
| 2009 (May 1)- am | Broad, Molly Corbett | President, American Council on Education | Doctor of Letters |
| 2009 (May 1)- am | Shrage, Barry | President, Combined Jewish Philanthropies | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 2009 (May 1)- pm | Gottlieb, Gary Lloyd | President, Brigham and Women's Hospital | Doctor of Science |
| 2009 (May 1)- pm | Menino, Angela Faletra | Advisory Member, Bay Cove Human Services | Doctor of Public Service |
| 2009 (May 1)- pm | Motley, James Keith | Chancellor, University of Massachusetts | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 2009 (May 22) - Law | Oleskey, Stephen Howes | Partner, WilmerHale | Doctor of Laws |
| 2010 (May 7)- am | Chenault, Kenneth I. | Chairman and CEO, American Express Company | Doctor of Commercial Science |
| 2010 (May 7) - am | Gregorian, Vartan C. | President, Carnegie Corporation | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 2010 (May 7) - am | Kennedy, Victoria Reggie | Founding President, Common Sense about Kids and Guns | Doctor of Public Service |
| 2010 (May 7) - pm | Bhagwati, Jagdish Natwarlal | Professor, Columbia University; Senior Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 2010 (May 28) - Law | Koh, Harold Hongju | Legal Adviser, United States State Department | Doctor of Laws |
| 2010 (Oct. 16) - CPS | Pond, Jonathan | Financial Advisor, PBS | None |
| 2011 (April 30) - CPS | Walker, Liz | Minister, African Methodist Episcopal Church, Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts | None |
| 2011 (May 6) - am | Termeer, Henri A. | Former President and CEO, Genzyme Corporation | Doctor of Global Business |
| 2011 (May 6) - am | Berlowitz, Leslie Cohen | President, American Academy of Arts | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 2011 (May 6) - am | Groover, Rev. Dr. Gregory G., Sr. | Chairman, Boston School Committee; Pastor, Charles Street African Methodist Episcopal Church | Doctor of Public Service |
| 2011 (May 6) - am | Jacobs, Bert and John | Co-Founders, Life is Good Company | Doctors of Entrepreneurship |
| 2011 (May 6) - am | The People of Japan | People of Japan | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 2011 (May 6) - pm | Burwell, Slyvia Matthews | President, Global Development Program, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation | Doctor of Philanthropy |
| 2011 (May 27) - Law | Manjoo, Rashida | Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women, United Nationals Human Rights Council | Doctor of Laws |
| 2012 (Apr 12) - CPS | Kraft, Josh | Nicholas President and CEO of Boys and Girls Clubs of Boston | None |
| 2012 (May 4) - am | Powell, Colin | General, United States Army (retired) and former United States Secretary of State | Doctor of Public Service |
| 2012 (May 4) - am | Mangkusubroto, Kuntoro, ME'77 | Head of the President's Delivery Unit for Development Monitoring and Oversight in Indonesia | Doctor of Engineering |
| 2012 (May 4) - am | Rodin, Judith | President, Rockefeller Foundation | Doctor of Humane Letter |
| 2012 (May 4) - am | Sternberg, Sy, ME'68 | Chair, Board of Trustees, Northeastern University | Doctor of Commerce |
| 2012 (May 4) - pm | Ferriero, David, BA’72, MA’76 | 10th Archivist of the United States | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 2012 (May 25) - Law | Berrien, Jacqueline A. | Chair of the United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission | Doctor of Laws |
| 2012 (Sep 29) - CPS | Lehane, Dennis | Author | none |
| 2013 (Apr 30) - CPS | Kaplan, Karen | President, Hill Holliday; Chairman of the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce | none |
| 2013 (May 3) - am | Kim, Jim Yong | President, World Bank Group | none |
| 2013 (May 3) - am | Bryant, Jack D. | President, Bryant Associates | Doctor of Engineering |
| 2013 (May 3) - am | Lynch, Barbara | CEO, Barbara Lynch Gruppo | Doctor of Public Service |
| 2013 (May 3) - am | Davis, Edward F., III | Boston Police Commissioner | Doctor of Public Service |
| 2013 (May 3) - pm | Arora, Nikesh | CBO, Google | Doctor of Commerce |
| 2013 (May 24) - Law | Hassan, Hon. Margaret Wood | Governor, New Hampshire | Doctor of Laws |
| 2013 (Aug 29) D'Amore-McKim | Vachon, Mark L. | Member, Board of Overseers, Northeastern University | none |
| 2014 (May 2) - am | Napolitano, Janet | Secretary of United States Homeland Security | Doctor of Public Service |
| 2014 (May 2) - am | Davis, Wade, II | Former National Football League Player | Doctor of Public Service |
| 2014 (May 2) - am | Smith, James Todd (LL COOL J) | Actor, Author, and Musician | Doctor of Arts |
| 2014 (May 2) - pm | Dzau, Victor J. | President and CEO, Duke University Health System | Doctor of Science |
| 2014 (May 2) - pm | Comb, Donald J. | Founder and Former CEO, New England Biolabs | Doctor of Science |
| 2015 (May 8) - am | Muir, David | Correspondent and Anchor, ABC's Evening News Program | Doctor of Media |
| 2015 (May 8) - am | Bacow, Lawrence S. | President, Tufts University | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 2015 (May 8) - am | Jaramillo, Gabriel | Former General Manager of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria | Doctor of Global Health |
| 2015 (May 8) - am | Kerry, Vanessa Bradford | Co-Founder and CEO, Seed Global Health | Doctor of Public Service |
| 2015 (May 8) - pm | Clough, G. Wayne | 12th Secretary, Smithsonian | Doctor of Engineering and Humane Letters |
| 2015 (May 15) - CPS | Frelow, Frederick James | Education and Scholarship Senior Program Officer, Ford Foundation | none |