The Vice Chancellor of the Oduduwa University, Ipetumodu, Osun State, Professor Chibuzo Nnate Nwoke has disclosed that the institution would employ its 29 first class graduates with automatic employment.
Addressing a press conference on the 4th convocation of the university, the VC said the institution would employ the first class students as graduate assistant and encourage them to pursuit further
academic qualifications.
A male student from the department of Mass Communication, Mr. Quadri Olatunji emerged the overall best graduating student with Cumulative Grade Point Average 4.96.
The CV told journalists that Quadri is among 239 graduates that would bag their first degrees from the university on Saturday. He reinstated the institution’s commitment to building a world-class university whose brand is excellence in the development of quality human capital.
Prof Nwoke explained that while 29 students made first class, 175 students finished with second class upper division. He said 85 students graduated with second class lower credit and four graduates fell into the third class category.
The VC also disclosed that the president of OUI had set up a full scholarship scheme for brilliant and intelligent students.
He also said that the National University Commission had granted full accreditation for all 13 approved B.Sc programmes of the university. According to him, "Specifically, the approved programme are in accounting; banking and finance; biochemistry; business administration, computer science, industrial chemistry, international relation, mass communication microbiology, and physics (with electronics).”
He revealed that NUC had visited the institution for the institution’s proposed postgraduate programmes in business administration, accounting, banking and finance and the MBA.
