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A total of seventeen thousand, four hundred and sixty-four (17,464) students will bag their first degree and postgraduate degrees at the convocation ceremony of the University of Lagos coming up on Monday, January 15 to Friday, January 19, 2024.
The Vice-Chancellor, Professor Folasade Ogunsola, OON, FAS made this disclosure at Unilag during the press conference to inform the public about the coming convocation ceremony.
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According to the Vice Chancellor, “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, with 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”.
David Oluwatomiwa Akanmu, from the Faculty of Engineering, was announced as the Overall Best Graduating Student with a perfect Cumulative Grade Point Average (CGPA) of 5.00.
Also, Ibrahim Abiodun Quadri of the Faculty of Management Sciences was announced as the Best Graduating Student in the Humanities with a CGPA of 4.94.
The 54th Convocation Ceremony will take place at J.F. Ade. Ajayi Auditorium at the Akoka Campus of the University of Lagos.
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