The authorities of the
University of Lagos said 178 students would be graduating with first class
division during its 2014/2015 convocation scheduled to start March 1. The
Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Rahmon Bello, announced this at a news conference to
kick start the activities lined up for the institution’s 48th convocation.
Bello,
giving a breakdown of the graduating students, said that 10,907 students would be
graduating from the various faculties. He said that the students would be conferred
with degrees, diplomas and certificates during the ceremony. According to him,
out of this number, 5,472 will receive first degrees while 5,435 will receive
postgraduate degrees.
He noted that the 178
first class graduating students were among the 5,472 that would be receiving
first degrees. “Also, 1,617 of the graduating students passed with the Second
Class Upper division.
“A total of 2,496
others will be graduating with the Second Class Lower division, 844 with the
Third Class and 274 with unclassified degrees in Medical Sciences and Pharmacy
and 50 with pass degrees, he said.
Bello said that the
Faculty of Engineering topped the lot with 41 being the highest number of First
Class degrees out of the total figure.
He said that the
university would also be graduating 71 students in the Doctor of Philosophy
(PhD) degrees category in various disciplines.
The Vice-Chancellor
said that a record had been set this year, with a graduating student, Mr Daniel
Ayodele, scoring a Cumulative Grade- Point Average ( CGPA) of 5.00 points.
With the grade,
Ayodele, a student of the Department of Psychology in the Faculty of Social
Sciences, has emerged as the best graduating student, he said. According to
Bello, Ayodele’s performance means that he scored ‘A’s in all the courses he
took in the programme, describing it as a perfect score. Giving a breakdown of
the performances on faculty basis, the Vice-Chancellor said that Arts would be
graduating 393, Education 605 and Environmental Sciences 201.
He said that the
Faculty of Sciences would be graduating 676, the College of Medicine would be
graduating 322 and the Faculty of Business Administration would be graduating
803. He said that the faculty of Engineering would be graduating 366; faculty
of Law would be graduating 251, 92 from Pharmacy and the Distance Learning
Institute would be graduating 1,063.
Bello said that
management had recorded huge success in its stride to uplift the standard of
the university.
“Today, our environment
is one of the cleanest of all the institutions in Nigeria, as we have commenced
waste sorting and this is yielding fruits.
“All our classrooms and
laboratories are now comparable with those anywhere in any first rated
university worldwide. “Research equipment and facilities are now being
modernised and research activities are taking new dimensions. “Our
internalisation efforts are also yielding fruits, in spite of all the social
challenges in Nigeria,’’ he said.
Bello said that the
university was currently playing host to 33 postgraduate students from various
West African countries, under the ECOWAS Academic Mobility scheme, for their
various Master and Ph.D. studies.
He also said that
students exchange programme with some Canadian and Chinese universities were in
the offing.
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