Education
FEDERAL University of Agriculture Abeokuta (FUNAAB) says it will be graduating 120 First Class students and 136 with doctoral degrees at its 32nd convocation.
The institution’s Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Olusola Kehinde, disclosed this at a news conference to herald the 32nd convocation of the university scheduled for Saturday.
Kehinde said that 3,567 students would be graduating, with 1,626 bagging Second Class Upper division and 1,624 with Second Class Lower division.
He said that 164 students would bag Third Class, 274 Master degrees, while 30 would be graduating with post-graduate diploma.
The vice-chancellor stated that the university had continued to focus on teaching, research and community engagement, in line with its mandate.
He said that the institution, which initially had three colleges, could now boast of 10 colleges, adding that the 11th college would be approved before the end of the year.
“We have also added new programmes to our academic activities.
“We now have Library and Information Science, Cyber Security and Data Science, Software Engineering and Information System, Information Technology and Industrial Chemistry.
“All these programmes have been accredited by National Universities Commission (NUC). All the 38 academic programmes of the institution are fully accredited,” he said.
The vice-chancellor also hinted that 11 Federal Government projects were currently going on in the university.
He expressed appreciation to Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) for the support to the institution, saying that 19 projects were currently running in the university under the agency. (NAN)
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