The Federal University of Technology, Akure (FUTA), will award degrees to 4,212 graduands at its 37th Convocation Ceremony, and 256 of them finished with First Class honours.
The best graduating student for the 2025/2026 session is Akintola Daniel Victor of the Department of Computer Science, who recorded a CGPA of 4.94 out of 5.0.
The Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Adenike Oladiji, disclosed this at a press briefing on Friday, November 13, 2026. The convocation activities run from November 13 to Saturday, November 21.
The graduating set has 3,039 first degree graduands and 1,173 postgraduate graduands. Of the first degree graduands, 2,152 are male and 887 are female.
Among them, 256 earned First Class, 1,717 got Second Class Upper, 964 got Second Class Lower, and 102 got Third Class.
On the postgraduate side, 641 will receive Master’s degrees and 225 will be awarded Postgraduate Diplomas. Another 173 will earn PhDs, 131 will graduate from the School of Professional Development, and three will receive Master of Philosophy degrees.
The university will also confer the title of Professor Emeritus on two retired academics, Prof. Thomas Inomisan Ofuya and Prof. Felix Akinsola Akinyosoye.
The 37th Convocation Lecture will be delivered by Innocent Ike, Group Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Access Holdings Plc. It is titled “From Akure to the World: The Next Chapter Is Yours to Write.”
The award of first degrees and the convocation lecture will hold on Friday, November 20, at 10:00am at the Obafemi Awolowo Auditorium. Postgraduate diplomas, Master’s and doctorate degrees will be awarded at the same venue on Saturday, November 21, at 10:00am.
Oladiji said the graduates are products of sustained academic engagement, practical learning, research and personal development.
“These graduates represent the outcome of sustained academic engagement, practical learning, research and personal development. Our responsibility has been to provide them with the knowledge, skills and intellectual discipline required to compete effectively, contribute to their communities and create solutions wherever their careers may take them,” she said.
She added that FUTA is working to ensure its graduates gain skills beyond academic qualifications.
“We are equally committed to ensuring that a FUTA education goes beyond the acquisition of certificates. Through entrepreneurship education, practical training, research exposure and innovation-driven learning, we continue to encourage students to become creative thinkers, responsible professionals and potential employers of labour,” she said.
Reviewing the 2025/2026 session, the Vice-Chancellor said the university secured full accreditation for its Medicine and Surgery programme from the Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria (MDCN). The admission quota also increased from 50 to 100 students.
FUTA has also started its Nursing programme and introduced several new undergraduate and postgraduate programmes.
On research, the university secured international grants worth £136,511 and US$115,000, along with 44 TETFund Institution-Based Research grants valued at ₦122.53 million. It also obtained two patents, one in renewable energy and another in thermal analysis technology.
Thirteen projects will be commissioned as part of the convocation activities. The Vice-Chancellor also said 404 staff members were promoted during the period, made up of 98 academic and 306 non-teaching staff.
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