During the Mak 74th Graduation ceremony, the College of Humanities and Social Sciences (CHUSS) was recognized for outstanding performance. Besides leading in the production of the highest number of Doctoral candidates, CHUSS delivered the overall best humanities student and 85 UPDF officers who graduated with Diplomas and degrees in defence and security studies.
The college was also honored for delivering the First Black African Recipient of the prestigious “Lifetime Achievement Award”, and its staff appointments on regional and internal bodies and partneships bearing fruits. Six members of staff were also announced for the Vice Chancellor’s Research Excellence Awards 2023. The college was hailed for authoring the centennial book highlighting the 100 years of the university service to humanity that was launched by the First lady and Minister of Education and Sports.
30 PhD candidates presented
For the third time, CHUSS presented the highest number of PhDs totaling 30 out of 132 PhDs across the ten colleges representing 23%.
The college also presented 260 Masters graduands out of 1585 across colleges a percentage share of 16.4% becoming the second to the College of Health Sciences.
CHUSS also presented 1366 candidates for the award of Bachelor’s degrees, out of 11,016 ( 0.1%) and 45 postgraduate diploma candidates out of 156 (29%) across colleges .
In total, the college presented close to 2000 candidates during the 5th session of the Mak 74th graduation ceremony held on 2nd February 2024.
