Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Osun State, at its 46th Convocation, will graduate 5,852 students from different fields of study.
Of the total, 4,114 belong to the classified category and have a bachelor’s degree.
At a pre-convocation press conference conducted on the university’s campus on Monday, Prof. Simeon Bamire, the vice chancellor, revealed this.
Bamire stated that 130 pupils would receive first-class grades, while 1,323 others received second-class marks when classifying the students’ grades (Honours, Upper Division).
He said that1,991 others would graduate with second class (Honours, Lower Division), while 636 would graduate with third class (Honours).
He said, “For this year’s convocation, we have a total number of 5,852 graduands, with the following breakdown; In Bachelor Degrees, classified, we have 130 in First Class (Honours), while 1,323 made second class (Honours, Upper Division).
“In the second class (Honours, Lower division) we have 1,991 graduands and in the third class (Honours) category, we have 636 while 34 graduands are on a pass category. In all, we have 4,114 graduands in this Bachelor degrees, classified.
“However, in the Bachelor degrees, unclassified, which comprises graduands from the Faculty of Basic Medical Sciences, Faculty of Clinical Sciences and, of course, Faculty of Dentistry. Even graduands from our centre for Distance Learning also fall within this category. In this group, we have seven graduands who have Pass with Honours, while 28 fall within Pass with Distinction. 444 made it under Pass with Credit and 486 are with Pass. 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.”
He added that the institution placed a high premium on the welfare and success of its students, hence the urgency in releasing the students, whose results had been approved by the University Senate after suspension of the strike embarked upon by members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities.
