Covenant Graduates, Most Employed in Nigeria Again!

Covenant Graduates, Most
Employed in Nigeria Again!
Covenant has once again emerged as the
institution with the most employed graduates
rate in Nigeria. This is according to the 2018
edition of The Nigerian Graduate Report
published by Stutern, an online platform that
focuses on training and connecting talented
youths in Nigeria with employers for internships
as well as entry-level jobs.
With 83.70%, Covenant tops the list of Nigerian
universities for a second time, having a
significant 15.52% lead over the next institution,
University of Nigeria, Nsuka, which had 68.18%.
Other universities in the top five were University
of Ibadan in the third place with 61.76%,
followed by Federal University of Technology,
Minna with 60.61% and University of Ilorin with
60.22%. With this result, Covenant has led in
the two editions of the report published by the
platform in 2016 and 2018 respectively.
Stutern engaged a rigorous methodology to
arrive at its findings by conducting an online
survey among 5,219 youths who graduated in
Nigeria from 2013 to 2017. Graduates in
marginalized locations were also accounted for
by engaging tracking officers to conduct an
offline survey in Edo, Enugu, Oyo, Imo and
Kaduna States. After four months of data
gathering and subsequent analysis, Covenant
emerged with the highest rate of graduate
employment in Nigeria.
Recall that Covenant recently entered the Times
Higher Education’s World Universities Ranking
and thereby became the first university in
Nigeria and West Africa to enter the 700
category in just 15 years of existence. It is also
noteworthy that while the graduates of the
University are highly employed, Covenant also
equips her students with entrepreneurial skills
that ensure self-employment and this is
validated by the Excellence in Quality
Entrepreneurship Education Award received
recently. Covenant is indeed a world-class
university that prepares her students for all-
round success.
Download Stutern Nigerian Graduate Report
2018 here .