Makerere University will this week graduate 14,895 students in various disciplines and varying academic ranging from diplomas to degrees, masters and PhD, in the four-day event.
Of these, 3,275 will get their first degrees in various disciplines, 268 will walk home with diplomas, 1,277 students will be graduating with Masters Degrees while 75 students will be graduating with PhDs.
This morning, the first graduation day, students from four colleges are set to graduate.
These are; College of Engineering, Design, Art and Technology (CEDAT), College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences (CAES), College of Natural Sciences (CoNAS), and College of Education and External Studies (CEES).
Meanwhile, the university is said to have run out of graduation gowns by Monday, prompting the ever ready Wandegeya tailors to double their fares.
The customized graduation gowns were unveiled last month and were being sold at Basement Store of Makerere University Senate Building at shillings 75,000, but tailors in Wandegeya, who counterfeited it had set their price at 65,000 to attract buyers.
By Monday however, the senate run out of these gowns, prompting Wandegeya tailors to double the price selling from between 120,000 and 150,000 shillings.
The deputy vice chancellor in charge of finance and administration, Prof Barnabas Nawangwe said they expected the shortage because the contractor did not make enough gowns.
He however explained that the contractor was given a go ahead late and students had been informed that they could still buy gowns from outside as it has been the practice in previous years.
Prof Nawangwe said the contractor made about 7,000 gowns which is less than half of the number of students graduating.
