UNILAG 54TH CONVOCATION CEREMONIES: 541 OUT OF 17464 WILL GRADUATE WITH FIRST CLASS
A total of seven thousand, four hundred and sixty four (17,464) students will be admitted to various undergraduate and postgraduate degrees of the University of Lagos at the 54th Convocation Ceremonies which is slated for Monday, January 15 to Friday, January 19, 2024.
The Vice-Chancellor, Professor Folasade Ogunsola, OON, FAS, disclosed this at the pre-Convocation Press Conferenceheld on Wednesday, January 10, 2024 at the Senate Chamberof the University.
Traditionally a curtain raiser for convocation ceremonies at the University of Lagos, the press conference afforded the Vice-Chancellor the opportunity to apprise the general public of events lined up for the 54th Convocation Ceremonies and the notable highlights to look forward to.
Her words: “Ladies and gentlemen, let me take you through the statistics of the graduating students. This year we will be graduating 17,464 students. Of these,10,578 will receive first degrees and 6,886 will be postgraduate. Of those with first degrees, 340 are First Class with 97 coming from Management Sciences, followed by Science with 57 and Engineering, 47. From the Faculties of Pharmacy, Basic Medical Sciences and Clinical Sciences, there are 39 Distinctions, 24 of which are from the Faculty of Pharmacy. 3,374 graduated with Second Class Upper, 4,547 graduated with Second Class Lower and 1,832 with Third Class. 188 graduated with a Pass and 250 had unclassified degrees from Pharmacy, Basic and Clinical Sciences. At the postgraduate level, 465 students will graduate with a Postgraduate Diplomas, while 6,266 will graduate with a Masters – out of which 377 have Distinctions”.
To the delight of the audience, the Vice-Chancellor announced David Oluwatomiwa Akanmu, from the Faculty of Engineering, as the Overall Best Graduating Student with a perfect Cumulative Grade Point Average (CGPA) of 5.00. She also announced Ibrahim Abiodun Quadri, of the Faculty of Management Sciences, as the Best Graduating Student in the Humanities with a CGPA of 4.94.
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