Lagos State University, LASU which is set to combine its 29th and 30th convocation ceremony, merging 2024/2025 and 2024/2026 sets together to graduate 20,604 students.
The convocation set to run from August 17 to 19, will comprise of diploma, undergraduate and postgraduate graduands.
According to the Vice-Chancellor, Professor Ibiyemi Olatunji-Bello, the combination is designed to clear a backlog resulting from adjustments made to its academic calendar.
From the previous session, 7,621 students completed first-degree programmes, with 262 First Class graduants and 947 completed diploma programmes. Meanwhile for he 2025/2026 session, 8,653 students will graduate from first-degree programmes, with 232 First Class graduates, and 44 students who completed diploma programmes.
It was revealed by the VC that higher degrees are to be confered on 3,383 postgraduate students, which includes postgraduate diplomas, academic and professional master’s degrees, PhDs and professional doctorates.
Ayilara Lawal Olawale of the Department of Project Management, with a CGPA of 4.96 and Adebanjo Samuel Oluolamide of the Department of Aerospace Engineering with a CGPA of 4.97 emerged as the overall best graduating student for 2024/2025 and the 2025/2026 respectively.
The institution will also confer honorary doctorate degrees on Akin Kekere-Ekun, Dr Harriet-Ann Omobola Adesola and Alhaji Aliko Dangote.
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