OAU To Turn Out 130 First Class Graduands At 46th Convocation

No fewer than 130 students of the Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife, Osun State, would receive First Class Degree (Honours) at the 46th convocation ceremony slated for Wednesday, December 7 and Saturday, December 10, 2022.

Addressing journalists at the institution on Monday, the Vice Chancellor, Prof Adebayo Simeon Bamire, disclosed that the institution would turn out a total of 5,852 graduands in the four-day convocation event.

Prof. Bamire while giving the breakdown of classes of awards, said 1,323)made Second Class Honours (Upper Division), and 1,991 graduated with Second Class Honours (Lower Division).

According to him, 636 will be awared Third Class Honours, while 34 students made Pass degree category out of 4,114 graduands in the Bachelor’s degrees classified.

The VC said the Bachelor degrees unclassified, comprises graduands from the Faculty of Basic Medical Sciences, Faculty of Clinical Sciences and Faculty of Dentistry.

He hinted that graduands from Distance Learning also fall within this category.

“In this group, we have 7 graduands who have Pass with Honours, while 28 falls within Pass with Distinction. 444 made it under Pass with Credit and 486 are with Pass. In these make us to have 965 under this unclassified category.

“For the postgraduate graduands, we have 17 under postgraduate Diploma, 403 under Professional Masters and 200 under Master with Research Thesis. While we have 20 under Masters of Philosophy, the total number of our Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D) graduands is 61. In all, we have 712 graduands under this category.

“May I also inform you that non-degree Diplomas in the Faculty of Administration, Faculty of Arts and Faculty of Education, are as follow. We have 2 with Distinction, 25 with upper credit and 34 with lower credit,” he said.

Professor Bamire said Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, places much premium on the welfare, success and progress of students, hence the urgent need to graduate the students whose results have been approved by the University Senate, almost immediately after the suspension of strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU).