With the CGPA of 4.86, Uzoamaka Daniella Rachael, a graduate
of Public Administration, Babcock University, , Ilishan-Remo, Ogun state has
emerged best graduating student for the 2014 graduating year.
Beating over 1,560 students to emerge best, Rachael won the
University President's Award
meant for student with overall best performances
at undergraduate programs in leadership, academics, community and spiritual
service, among other high class awards.
Other students from the university’s eight instructional
schools were awarded first degrees where a total of 45 students graduated with
First Class honors, while 1,227 and 292 students graduated with Second Class
degree (Upper) and Second Class degree (Lower) respectively.
The School of Postgraduate Studies churned out 177
candidates, 59 PhDs, 101 Masters Degrees and 17 postgraduate diplomas, as
against 18 PhDs in 2012 and 41 in 2013.
In his convocation address, the Vice Chancellor of the school, Prof. James Kayode Makinde, enjoined the graduating children to make an imprint on the world, adding that life will only be meaningful if they live to be a positive influence not in the number of things own but in the number of lives they touch.
He revealed that Nigerian university system as a subset of the higher educational sector of the global market economy has experienced, endured and survived so many environmental, regulatory, structural and philosophical strangulations, that its continued existence and resilience is nothing short of miracle.
The Don added that despite its high value goodwill capital or perhaps in spite of its pre-eminence as Nigeria's flagship university, Babcock typifies more than any other, the agony of its private tertiary educational institutions facing borderless global competition armed with hapless local constraints on three fronts-global student recruitment disincentives and stiff competition; unsustainable local operational costs and galloping inflation; and regional socio-political instability.
The institution in encouraging selfless service honoured the Minister of Finance, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala with Doctor of Science in Global Economic Development (Honoris Causa), while Ms Mo Abudu was honoured with Doctor of Humane Letters (Honoris Causa).
In his convocation address, the Vice Chancellor of the school, Prof. James Kayode Makinde, enjoined the graduating children to make an imprint on the world, adding that life will only be meaningful if they live to be a positive influence not in the number of things own but in the number of lives they touch.
He revealed that Nigerian university system as a subset of the higher educational sector of the global market economy has experienced, endured and survived so many environmental, regulatory, structural and philosophical strangulations, that its continued existence and resilience is nothing short of miracle.
The Don added that despite its high value goodwill capital or perhaps in spite of its pre-eminence as Nigeria's flagship university, Babcock typifies more than any other, the agony of its private tertiary educational institutions facing borderless global competition armed with hapless local constraints on three fronts-global student recruitment disincentives and stiff competition; unsustainable local operational costs and galloping inflation; and regional socio-political instability.
The institution in encouraging selfless service honoured the Minister of Finance, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala with Doctor of Science in Global Economic Development (Honoris Causa), while Ms Mo Abudu was honoured with Doctor of Humane Letters (Honoris Causa).
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