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Eight persons made First Class at the recently held convocation of Gregory University, Uturu (GUU), Abia State.
Addressing the gathering, the vice chancellor, Prof Augustine Uwakwe, said of the 218 graduating students, 100 made second class upper, 105 second class lower and 10 third class.
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Uwakwe added that the institution, which took off in 2012 with 78 pioneer students and three Colleges, now has more than 3,000 students and 11 Colleges, including a postgraduate college.
He said as part of its policy, the university absorbs its first class products as graduate assistants and offers them alongside best graduating students’ postgraduate scholarships up to doctorate level.
Rating GUU as a rapidly growing institution, the VC said sequel to the approval of the National Universities Commission (NUC), during the 2018-2019 academic year, 16 additional programmes were introduced and have progressed to third year with state-of-the- art facilities alongside approved postgraduate programmes.
