College of Commerce, Uganda Graduates 2700 Students

Uganda College of Commerce Graduate Student

At least 2,677 finalists graduated with certificates and diplomas from the Uganda College of Commerce, Tororo campus, on Friday.

The overall best graduate was Joweria Namazzi, with a diploma in Business Studies (UDBS, Accounting). She got a cumulative grade point average of 4.89. Monday Rogers, another UDBS major, came second with CGPA 4.81.

Of the 2,677 finalists, 233 got first class distinctions. The college, which began in 1984, has 1400 students: 740 females and 660 males. Speaking at the graduation ceremony, Principal Margaret Ekou said the college's science and technology department needed help.

Ekou said the college had only 60 computers serving a growing student population of 1,400. This means there's only one computer for every 25 students, she said. In her speech, the minister for Education, Jessica Alupo, urged heads of education institutions not to block students with pending tuition fees from writing their exams.

In a speech read by the minister of state for Primary Health Care, Sarah Achieng Opendi, Alupo said such students could be forced to pay later, once their results were withheld. The graduates were urged to seek higher education since Makerere University Business School has programmes for diploma holders who wish to attain degrees.