The University Of Calabar (UNICAL), has matriculated 6,395 students into its full-time programmes for the 2014/2015 academic session.
Speaking during the event, the Vice-Chancellor, Prof James Epoke, congratulated the students on scaling through the admission hurdles.
According to him, more than 25,000 applicants chose the university as their first choice during the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME), but 12,340 scored above 180 to qualify in JAMB and were invited for the attitude test, through which 6,395 candidates were admitted.
Advising the students he said, “It is a great challenge to all of you, who have been given admission, to live up to expectation and defend your admission by working hard and passing your examinations very well. You are expected to keep to the rules and regulations of the school, bearing in mind that ignorance is no excuse for defaulters.”
He further stated that, students must have 75 per cent lecture attendance to be allowed to write examination.