* As 17,474 Pass Out With First Degrees; 1,788 Get Postgraduate Diploma; 5,282 Earn Master’s Degree And 31 Bag PhD
- 57 Graduate With First Class Honours
By Cynthia Okeke (Head, Education Desk)
The National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN) has flagged-off activities for its 15th Convocation Ceremony, announcing a total of 24,575 students expected to graduate from various undergraduate, postgraduate and doctoral degree programmes.
Vice-Chancellor of the University, Professor Uduma Oji Uduma, disclosed that the ceremony will kick off with a Convocation Lecture on Friday, April 17, 2026, while the Convocation Ceremony takes place on Saturday, April 18, 2026 at the university headquarters in Abuja as well as from the various study centres via live streaming channel.
The NOUN Vice-Chancellor stated this on Tuesday, April 14, 2026 during a Pre-Convocation Press Conference at the headquarters of the University in Abuja. He said the Convocation Lecture would be delivered by the former Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Chief Kanu Godwin Agabi, CON, SAN.
The lecture, according to Prof. Uduma, will be chaired by Professor Kabir Bala and will focus on the theme: “Nigeria Against Corruption.”
He described the theme as both deliberate and timely, a call to national introspection and a reminder that education must produce not only skilled individuals but ethical citizens.
While breaking down the figure, the NOUN VC disclosed that a record 24,575 will graduate, which is the highest in NOUN’s history. This, he added, includes: 17,474 undergraduate students, 1,788 postgraduate diploma students, 5,282 master’s degree holders and 31 PhD recipients.
Out of the total figure, the graduating cohort includes 57 First Class graduates and 56 inmates, reinforcing NOUN’s inclusive educational philosophy.
He explained that the statistics show the Faculty of Management Sciences leading with 7,455 graduates, followed by Social Sciences (6,024), Health Sciences (3,939), Education (3,431), Computing (2,205), Sciences (943), Agricultural Sciences (120), and Law with 6 postgraduate students. NNL.
