22 bag first class as national open university graduates 22,175 students

“The forthcoming convocation would be an opportunity to showcase what the institution can do with technology,” he said.

“Of this number, 15,768 are undergraduate degrees, while 6,407 are for postgraduate degrees, with the Faculty of Social Sciences producing the highest number of graduates.

“22 of these students are first class, 2,362 are PGD graduates, while 41 are Masters and six leaving the institution as PHD holders.

“This is an indication that the school is gradually moving towards establishing a more robust postgraduate school.”

Peters added that the graduating students will join the convocation ceremony virtually from its 120 study centres in Nigeria.

The VC also revealed that NOUN will upgrade all its study centres with fibre optics to speed up the transmission of data.