KARACHI: The University of Karachi has awarded 7,184 degrees to students of morning and evening shifts in various disciplines in 2019 while around 2,000 students would receive their degrees in the upcoming convocation of the university.

The 30th convocation would be held on Saturday (Dec 28) at 9.30am at the Valika Cricket Ground.

Governor of Sindh and Chancellor of public sector universities of Sindh Imran Ismail would preside over the convocation.

This was stated by KU Vice Chancellor Professor Dr Khalid Mahmood Iraqi while talking to journalists at the VC secretariat on Thursday.

The university has arranged a press briefing to share details of the upcoming convocation with the media. Professor Dr Khalid Iraqi mentioned that 208 students would receive gold medals during in the convocation.

He mentioned that the KU awarded 3,166 degrees in different departments of the faculty of science, 1,865 degrees in different departments of faculty of arts and social sciences, 718 degrees in different departments of faculty of management and administrative sciences, 284 degrees in faculty of education, 268 degrees in different departments of faculty of Islamic learning, 216 degrees in departments of faculty of pharmacy, 80 degrees in faculty of law, and 21 degrees in faculty of engineering.

He informed the media that during this year, 292 students had completed their MPhil, 255 students have completed their PhD whereas 15 MS, two MS, one MD and DSc degrees were awarded.

Professor Iraqi said that a medical camp would be established and standby ambulances would also be available on Saturday.

Replying to a question, he said that names of the recipient of the gold medal would be embossed on their medals while the size of the gold medal had also been incr­eased as compare to the past.

Published in Dawn, December 27th, 2019