Over 500 students graduating with first class honours, says FUTA VC

Adenike Oladiji, vice-chancellor of the Federal University of Technology, Akure (FUTA), says 519 students of the institution would be graduating with first class honours during the combined convocation ceremony slated for November 29.

Speaking at a press briefing on Friday, Oladiji said FUTA currently has about 20,000 students across 11 faculties and 59 accredited programmes as well open distance learning.

She said the first-class graduands are among the 6,405 graduating students who would be conferred with first degrees from the 11 faculties of the school.

The VC said 3,408 graduates have second class honours (upper division), 2,139 students have second class honours (lower division) while 339 made third class.

She added that the university will also confer 229 postgraduate diplomas, 536 master and 120 doctoral degrees.

“The 29th and 35th Convocation Ceremonies begin today and will peak on the 29th and 30th of November with award of first and postgraduate degrees,” she said.

“At this Convocation, we will welcome Our Visitor, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, GCFR. Prelident and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces.

“It will be an opportunity to physically express our gratitude for various interventions of the Federal Government in our University, especially, the approval for the establishment of FUTA Teaching Hospital.”

Oladiji said a major highlight of the event will be the convocation lecture titled ‘Technological Innovations: A Panacea to Foor Insecurity’, to be delivered by Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo, the minister of interior.

Speaking on the achievements of the institution, she said FUTA is rated top 25 best universities in Nigeria based on the times higher education (THE) ranking of world universities 2025.

“Ten academic staff of the university featured in the career-long impact category and 30 in the single year impact category. During the concluded academic session, four researchers in the university won international grants worth GBP 135,420 and USD 882,000,” she said.

“Researchers in the university, 17 in number – also won the TETFund’s national research fund worth NGN 427,000,000. Other National Research Grants worth NGN 2,600,000 were won by three researchers of the University.”