The Federal University of Technology, Akure, has announced that 256 students graduated with first class degrees out of 3,039 at its 37th convocation.

The university will graduate a total of 4,212 students at the ceremony, with 3,039 receiving first degrees and 1,173 awarded postgraduate degrees.

The Vice Chancellor, Professor Adenike Oladiji, disclosed this on Friday during a press conference to herald the convocation ceremony. She described the occasion as an opportunity to celebrate academic excellence, assess the university’s achievements and reaffirm its commitment to producing graduates capable of addressing the country’s technological and developmental challenges.

Oladiji said the graduating students comprised 256 First Class graduates, 1,717 Second Class Upper Division, 964 Second Class Lower Division and 102 Third Class graduates. She said the graduands comprise 2,152 males and 887 females.

She disclosed that the best graduating student for the 2025/2026 academic session is Daniel Victor Akintola. He is from the Department of Computer Science. He finished with an impressive Cumulative Grade Point Average of 4.94.

Oladiji said FUTA will continue to encourage its students to become creative thinkers. She said the university will encourage them to transform classroom learning into real life experience.

She also announced that FUTA has added about 18 new programmes and two new schools since the current administration came on board. The new schools are the School of Architecture and the School of Science and Technology Education. She said the university continued to strengthen its academic portfolio in line with National Universities Commission standards during the 2025/2026 academic session.

She added that this year, the university will only confer Professor Emeritus on two retiring professors, with no honorary doctorate degrees.