About 1,923 students from the Tamale, Nyankpala and Navrongo campuses of the University are expected to graduate next week in Tamale. This brings the total number of students to 3,712 students who would be passed out by the University for the 2015/2016 academic year.

Out of the number, 138 students are graduating at the post graduate level in various disciplines.  Speaking at the 17th Congregation of the University in Wa, Professor Gabriel Ayum Teye, Vice Chancellor of UDS, expressed his gratitude to the entire faculty for the individual roles each of them played towards getting the students to graduate.

Prof Teye said the University received a total of 10,447 applications for the 2016/2017 Academic year, for admission into various under graduate and graduate programmes of the university.

He said the University offered admission to 6,897 of the applicants into various programmes in the under graduate and graduate categories out of which only 3,136 of them had reported as at the time of matriculation.

The Vice Chancellor cautioned that the long term survival of the nation at large as well as organisations, institutions and agencies would depend on how the graduates would effectively apply the knowledge, competencies and skills they had acquired to manage themselves and others.