University of Lagos (UNILAG), South West Nigeria says, a total of 340 students will be graduating with first class at its 54th convocation scheduled for Jan. 17.
Vice Chancellor of the institution, Prof. Folasade Ogunsola, disclosed this at a news conference on Wednesday in Lagos.
He announced activities lined up for the ceremony explaining that the 340 are among the overall 17,464 students that will graduate during the period.
According to her, David Akanmu, from the Faculty of Engineering, emerged as the overall best-graduating student, with a perfect score of 5.00 CGPA.
Ibrahim Quadri of the Faculty of Management Sciences, with a CGPA of 4.94, is the best graduating student in the Humanities.
Giving a breakdown of statistics of the overall graduating students, Ogunsola noted that 10,578 of them would receive first degrees, while 6,886 others, would be honoured with the postgraduate degrees.
The don further explained that, of the 340 that would be honoured with the first class degree, a total of 97 of them are from Management Sciences, with 57 from the Faculty of Science.
She added that 47 others are from the Faculty of Engineering.
Ogunsola said there were 39 distinctions from the Faculties of Pharmacy, Basic Medical Sciences and Clinical Sciences.
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