BLUFFTON, Ohio (AP) - A survivor badly hurt in a bus crash that killed five student baseball players has graduated from their Ohio college.

Doctors didn't think Tim Berta would ever walk again let alone finish the four courses he needed to get his biology degree from Bluffton University.

But on Sunday, the 24-year-old from Ida, Mich., received a standing ovation at the northwest Ohio school when he walked onto a stage and received his diploma.

Berta has spent the last two years going through rehabilitation since the March 2007 bus accident in Atlanta during the Bluffton baseball team's annual spring trip to Florida.

He says he's still making improvements every day. He now plans to start nursing school within the next year.

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