6,832 Graduates To Receive Scrolls At UUM’s 38th Convocation Ceremony

ALOR SETAR, Nov 3 (Bernama) -- A total of 6,832 graduates will receive their scrolls at Universiti Utara Malaysia’s (UUM) 38th Convocation Ceremony, to be held from Nov 9 to 13 at the Mu’adzam Shah Hall, UUM, in Sintok.

UUM vice-chancellor Prof Datuk Dr Mohd Foad Sakdan said that of the total, 5,575 graduates will receive their bachelor’s degree scrolls, while 1,241 postgraduate graduates will be conferred Doctor of Philosophy, Doctor of Management, Doctor of Business Administration and master’s degree scrolls.

“Sixteen graduates will receive the Executive Diploma in Business Management, while 1,339 of the 5,575 bachelor’s degree recipients obtained first-class honours,” he said at a press conference here today.

According to Mohd Foad, the ceremony involved 6,391 local graduates and 441 international graduates, comprising 164 from Indonesia, 109 from China, 36 from Pakistan, 23 from Saudi Arabia, 21 from Nigeria, 18 from Somalia, 17 from Iraq and 53 from other countries.

He also said UUM will confer degrees on 137 first graduates from three new programmes, namely the Bachelor of Arts in Linguistics and Information Technology with Honours, the Bachelor of Arts in Contemporary Literature and Creative Industry Management with Honours, and the Bachelor of Applied History with Honours.

Mohd Foad said UUM will this year bestow an Honorary Doctorate of Philosophy in Islamic Business Management on International Centre for Education in Islamic Finance (INCEIF) University chairman  Tan Sri Azman Mokhtar.

“This brings the total number of recipients of honorary doctorates to 55 since the first convocation ceremony in 1988,” he said.

Meanwhile, Mohd Foad said the Royal Education Award recipient will receive RM7,500 in cash and a certificate, while the Chancellor’s Gold Medal Award recipient will receive RM4,000 in cash and a certificate.

He said that the Sultan of Kedah, Al-Aminul Karim Sultan Sallehuddin Sultan Badlishah, has consented to officiate the first session of the convocation ceremony and present degree scrolls to the graduates.

In conjunction with the convocation, he said UUM is also organising a Convocation Festival (PESKON38), which will be held from Nov 6 to 14 with the theme “Keusahawanan Pemacu Kebitaraan Graduan”.

--BERNAMA