Prof. Pamela Dube, CUT vice-chancellor and principal. Photo: Teboho Setena


The Central University of Technology (CUT), Free State, will be celebrating, over the course of four days, a cohort of 3 756 students reaching their academic apex at graduation ceremonies held at its Bloemfontein and Welkom campuses.

The ceremonies are for six faculties: Faculty of Humanities; Faculty of Engineering, Built Environment, and Information Technology (FEBIT); Faculty of Humanities and FEBIT (IT); Faculty of Management Science; Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology; and Faculty of Health and Environmental Science.

The Welkom campus graduations start tomorrow – Thursday (04/05) – at the Kingdom Ministries of Christ auditorium, while graduations for the Bloemfontein campus will be at Boet Troskie Hall, starting Monday (08/05).

This will be the first graduation for the newly appointed vice-chancellor and principal, Prof. Pamela Dube.

Seithati Semenokane, spokesperson of the university, says the university will confer 62 master’s and 21 doctoral degrees in addition to the 3 756 qualifications to its graduates.

She says the institution will honour the pioneering woman entrepreneur Daphne Mashile-Nkosi at the Welkom campus by bestowing her with an honorary doctorate degree of Philosophy in Management Sciences (entrepreneurial and small business operations). Mashile-Nkosi is the executive chairperson of Kalagadi Manganese.

In addition, the university will bestow a Chancellor’s Excellence Award in Hospitality Management to George Ellert Cohen, managing director, hotelier, and expert in the hospitality management industry.

  • Welkom campus graduations programme: 4 May

10:00

Faculty of Humanities & FEBIT (IT)

Department of Postgraduate Studies: Education

Department of Educational and Professional Studies

Department of Language and Social Sciences Education

Department of Mathematics, Science and Technology Education

Department of Communication Sciences

Department of Information Technology

14:00

Faculty of Management Science

Department of Business Management

Department of Government Management

Department of Business Support Studies

Department of Accounting and Auditing

) Bloemfontein campus graduation at Boet Troskie Hall: 8 May

10:00

Faculty of Management Sciences

Department of Business Support Studies

Department of Accounting and Auditing

Department of Tourism and Event Management

14:00

Department of Business Management

Department of Government Management

Department of Hospitality Management

Faculty of Humanities

9 May

10:00

Department of Educational and Professional Studies

Department of Language and Social Sciences Education

Department of Mathematics, Science and Technology Education

14:00

Department of Communication Sciences

Department of Design and Studio Art

Department of Postgraduate Studies: Education

Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology

10 May

10:00

Department of Built Environment

Department of Electrical, Electronic and Computer Engineering

Department of Mathematical and Physical Sciences

14:00

Department of Civil Engineering

Department of Information Technology

Department of Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering

Faculty of Health and Environmental Science

11 May

10:00

Department of Agriculture

Department of Clinical Sciences

Department of Health Sciences

Department of Life Sciences

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