No fewer than 17,759 undergraduate students are set to graduate from Taraba State University (TSU), Jalingo, as the institution holds its combined convocation for four academic sessions. The university's registrar, Mr Joseph Bibinu, disclosed the graduation figure during a press briefing in Jalingo ahead of the ceremony, noting that 3,084 students would graduate for the 2021-2022 academic session, 4,609 for 2022-2023, 4,666 for 2023-2024, and 5,402 for 2024-2025. He also disclosed that 74 graduating students emerged with first-class degrees across the four academic sessions: 22 from 2021-2022, 25 from 2022-2023, 15 from 2023-2024, and 12 from 2024-2025. The graduation figure comes amid a major expansion of the university's academic capacity, with all 72 programmes now fully accredited and 23 newly introduced programmes approved by the National Universities Commission (NUC).
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