No fewer than 231 out of 12,617 graduating students of the University of Lagos (Unilag) will be awarded first class division during its 49th convocation scheduled for Jan. 24.

Its Vice-Chancellor, Rahmon Bello, who said this at a news conference on Wednesday in Lagos, added that 46 of them would be from the Faculty of Engineering.

According to him, 6, 900 out of the 12,617 students that would be graduating, representing 54.7 per cent, would receive first degrees and diploma certificates.

He said 5,717 others, representing 45.3 per cent, would receive postgraduate degrees.

“With this output, the institution is maintaining its stance of gradually becoming a postgraduate institution,’’ the V-C said.

Mr. Bello, giving a further breakdown of the categories of the graduating students, said that 1,705 of the students would be passing out in Second Class Upper division.

“We will also be graduating 2,972 students in the Second Class lower division, while 1,372 others will be graduating in the Third Class division.

“Also, 103 students will graduate with ordinary pass degrees, while 517 others will have degrees or diplomas that are not classified,’’ Professor Bello said.









According to him, 5,420 postgraduate students will receive their Masters Degree certificates in various fields during the convocation,

He also said that 95 others would be conferred with the Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D) degrees in various disciplines.

Mr. Bello said the university produced two female students, who came top in the first class category with “perfect scores” Cumulative Grade Point Average (CGPA) of 5.00 point in the 2015/2016 academic session.

They are Taiwo Bankole from the Department of Cell Biology and Genetics, Faculty of Science and Ajoke Omotuyi from the Department of Systems Engineering, Faculty of Engineering.

donpata:
First class wey no get use. Most of them will be in zoology, history, anthropology etc. Worst thing is the world of the unemployed awaits them. I just dey imagine if it was a private school or state uni that issued that, the kind insults wey go follow ehhh. We wey know say the Fed Unis too na wash. Bringing out first class graduate only good in theory and passing of exams. If it were in the Western nations, companies may probably hook up at least 60% of them. But in naija, many that graduated with 3rd class alongside the former will soon be gainfully employed, leaving behind the 1st class pple.

oldfoolnigger:
Seems like unilag no get sadists or demi gods of lecturalS.KUDOS

MyPWisINCORRECT:
While Uniport dey load ladies and gentlemen thirdy and pass.

codelord:
Greatest Akokite!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Seunpaul01:
Who first class epp

Statsocial:
231/6000 is fair. It seems most public schools are now realising that its is counterproductive to put a ceiling on the amount of First class grad they churn out each year.

tete7000:



But its quite bad that the ratio of 2.1 to. Third class is almost 1. It shows that culture of excellence in our society is diminishing.

ElChidi:
1st class is now worthless in Nigerian schools
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