NFL Hall of Famer Jerome Bettis Announces Completion of Business Degree
Former Steelers star Jerome Bettis has officially graduated Our Lady with his business degree 28 years after he left campus for the NFL.
“The Bus” tweeted on Thursday that his degree was complete because he was a member of the Class of 2022. He left Notre Dame in 1993 as a junior when he was drafted by the Rams with No. 10 pick. He has only four courses to shy away from his business degree, so the 49-year-old is back on campus this semester to finish it.
“A promise made, a promise kept,” Bettis wrote. “28 years after leaving Notre Dame, I completed my degree at the Mendoza School of Business. I hope my journey will serve [a] remember that education is the true equalizer of life and it is never too late to start. ”
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Bettis told the Today’s Show Previously her enthusiasm to go back to school was based on a promise she made to her mother, along with wanting to be a role model to her children.
“I promised my mother that I would get my degree,” Bettis said. “In my immediate family, I was the first to graduate from college. But most importantly, I have two children. So that they could see that dad could finish a commitment he had set about 27 years ago, so that I could complete that, I think it told them a lot.
The running back is the eighth all-time leading rusher in the NFL. He helped the Steelers to a Super Bowl title in 2006, then retired the same year. Bettis was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2015.
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