Babcock University, Ilishan-Remo in Ogun, has matriculated 3,627 students admitted in the 2022/2023 academic session. Just as in the year 2021/2022 academic session, the School of Computing and Engineering Sciences topped the list of 12 schools with 1,144 students this year.
Speaking at the ceremony on Friday at the School’s Amphitheatre hall, the President/Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Ademola Tayo, congratulated the matriculating students and their parents, and assured them that the University would give them all the support needed to achieve their dreams and model them as worthy ambassadors of their parents, university and nation by not only teaching them the facts but also training their minds to think.
As an institution founded on the principle of leadership through Christian education, the VC assured that the university would continue to applaud and celebrate the sterling qualities of integrity, faithfulness and godly conduct among its students, and warned that the institution will not condone any form of misdemeanor from cultism, drug addiction, hooliganism to stealing, exam misconduct and other aberrant behavior.
The Joint Admission and Matriculation Board’s (JAMB) Public Relations Officer in Abeokuta, Miss Abiola Olagunle, in her remarks, urged the students to follow laid down rules and regulations of the school and avoid bad influence if they want in succeed in Babcock University, adding that the surest path to success was through hard work and discipline, determination and the fear of God.
Babcock University’s programmes are accredited by the National Universities Commission (NUC), Intentional Board of Education (IBE) USA and the Adventist Accrediting Association (AA), USA, as well as professional accrediting bodies, which gives prospective candidates the confidence to subscribe to Babcock.
Other high lights of the ceremony include the presentation of awards of certificate to Emmanuel Oluwanifemi Temiloluwa, with highest Jamb score of 357 in 2022 UTME among those who applied to Babcock University; Kujenya Eniola Esther, Adigwu Isaac Ogochukwukam Efe and Arigbe-Osula Osaite Ikpomwoma who scored 14 points in 2022 Babcock University Jupeb programme and Favour Anene Chukwuemeka with highest CGPA of 4.76 in Babcock University pre-degree programme of 2022.