By Oyero Abiodun Yakub
Obafemi Awolowo University, Osun State has rolled out the number of students the school will be graduating in her 46th Convocation Ceremony. The Convocation ceremony will run from Wednesday, December 7 to Saturday, December 10, 2022 for the 2019/2020 Academic session.
As announced by the Vice Chancellor of the university, Prof. Simeon Banire, during a pre-convocation press briefing held earlier today, 5852 students, amongst which 4,114 will be getting a Bachelor degree in the Classified category.
Of the 4,114 students, 130 bagged First Class Honours, and 1,323 made Second Class Honours (Upper Division). 1,991 would graduate with Second Class Honours (Lower Division), while 636 would graduate with Third Class Honours.
Prof. Banire added that 965 would graduate in the Unclassified categories and 712 in the PostGraduate category.
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 degree, classified.
“However, in the Bachelor degrees, unclassified, which comprise 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 falls within Pass with Distinction. 444 made it under Pass with Credit and 486 are with Pass. This makes us 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 (PhD) graduands is 61. In all, we have 712 graduands under this category”, he added.
