HUYE – 3,063 students of the National University of Rwanda (NUR) will on March 27 graduate in different disciplines in the country’s largest graduation ceremony ever. The figure is the highest at in single graduation ceremony in the history of the 44-year-old institution.

According to the university rector, Prof. Silas Lwakabamba, the high number of graduating students is due to strict guidelines set by the university concerning completion of student memoirs.

Women constitute 25 percent of the total number of this year’s NUR graduands.

A total of 168 students will receive Bachelor’s degrees in Medicine, 100 in Computer Science, 46 in Civil Engineering, 17 in Electricity and 48 in Electronics.

Sixty-four students will be awarded with Master’s degrees in the fields of Law, Applied Sciences and Public Health. And for the first time in its history, the university will award PhD’s in Medicine. The programme for the award of the two PhD’s was run in conjunction with Universities in Belgium.

NUR has graduated 4,899 students after the 1994 Genocide (1995-2006). This figure is in sharp contrast to only 1,962 students graduated in a period spanning 30 years before Genocide (1963-1993).

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