No fewer than 42 students will graduate with First Class degrees as Mountain Top University (MTU) prepares to hold its 7th Convocation Ceremony alongside its 10th Anniversary celebrations.
The Vice-Chancellor of the university, Prof. Elijah Adebowale Ayolabi, disclosed this at a press conference held on Monday, noting that the ceremony is scheduled for December 18 at the institution’s Multi-Purpose Hall.
According to him, the convocation lecture, titled “Dream Big, Start Small, and God Will Lift You to the Highest Point Possible,” will be delivered by the Governor of Akwa Ibom State, Umo Bassey Eno.
A total of 346 students from the university’s undergraduate and postgraduate programmes will be graduating. Of this number, 42 students earned First Class honours, 124 obtained Second Class Upper degrees, 102 graduated with Second Class Lower, while 14 received Third Class degrees.
Miss Akinyemi Omolola Faith of the Department of Mathematics, who recorded a CGPA of 4.94, will be honoured as the Best Graduating Student for the 2024/2025 academic session.
At the postgraduate level, 64 students will graduate, comprising nine PhD holders, 28 Master’s degree recipients, two MBA graduates, and 25 Postgraduate Diploma holders. The ceremony will also feature the first-ever doctoral hooding in the history of the institution.
Activities lined up for the convocation and anniversary include a thanksgiving service, football match, open day, exhibition and fiesta, convocation play, doctoral hooding ceremony, Vice-Chancellor’s cocktail, as well as the convocation lecture and award ceremony.
In a statement, the university said it currently has 37 fully accredited academic programmes across three colleges, with plans underway to establish Colleges of Law and Engineering. MTU also boasts a student population of about 2,000 drawn from across Nigeria and beyond, supported by over 200 academic and non-academic staff.
The statement added that the institution has modern student hostels, with additional hostels providing a 1,000-bed capacity under construction, while the Folashade Olukoya Centre for Fine and Applied Arts is nearing completion. Campus facilities are also being expanded to meet standards comparable to those of leading European and American universities.
Prof. Ayolabi further revealed that all MTU programmes visited by the National Universities Commission (NUC) during the last accreditation exercise received full accreditation.
He noted that the university has also strengthened its research ecosystem in the past year through the Centre for Research, Innovation and Collaborations (CRIC).
“At Mountain Top University, we believe that university education must go beyond academic certification. We are committed to the total development of the child — academically, morally, professionally, spiritually, and socially.
“Our graduates are trained not only to excel intellectually but also to demonstrate integrity, leadership, entrepreneurial capacity, and civic responsibility. This philosophy explains the growing number of applicants seeking admission into MTU every year,” the Vice-Chancellor said.
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