Makerere University 74th graduation ceremony is officially starting today, 29th January till 2nd February, 2024.
The first day of the long-awaited occasion will see a total of 1,476 students from College of Natural Sciences (CONAS), College of Health Sciences (CHS) and School of Law receive respective academic awards.
Out of these, 1,011 are undergraduate, 404 are graduate students, 24 are undergraduate diploma students and 36 are PhD students.
It should be noted that a total of 12,913 students will graduate from the 74th convocation. Of these, 6,816 are female and 6,097 are male.
In addition, a total of 11,016 are undergraduate students, 24 are undergraduate diploma students, 156 are postgraduate diploma students, 1,585 are graduate students and 132 are PhDs students.
The above numbers have also indicated a slight decline in the number of graduates from the 73th ceremony where 13,221 graduated.
However, the number of PhD students increased from 102 last year to 132 this year, which makes it the largest number of PhD students since its establishment in 1922.
This website will keep you posted for every detail throughout the week.
