The Olusegun Agagu University of Science and Technology, Ondo State, has announced that 1,452 students will be awarded first degrees at its forthcoming ninth convocation ceremony.
According to the state government-owned institution, 50 of the graduating students earned first-class honours.
The Vice-Chancellor of the university, Prof. Temi Ologunorisa, disclosed this on Thursday while briefing journalists in his office on activities lined up for the ceremony.
Giving a breakdown of the graduating students, Ologunorisa said, “By the grace of God, we will have about 1,452 graduates on that day. Out of the 1,452 graduates, 50 are in the first-class category, 594 in the second-class upper division, 691 in the second-class lower division, and 115 in the third class.”
The Vice-Chancellor, who has only a few months left in office, also stated that the ceremony would mark the first time the institution would graduate a doctoral student, who earned a PhD in Mathematics since its inception.
He noted that the varsity had recorded significant progress in both academic and human development, disclosing that the student population had risen to 12,000 from 5,000 a few years ago.
