Hyderabad: Dr B.R. Ambedkar Open University (BRAOU) will award degrees to 36,145 candidates at its 27th convocation ceremony in Hyderabad on October 7.
BRAOU Vice Chancellor Prof. Ghanta Chakrapani said on Wednesday that the university will also confer an honorary doctorate (honoris causa) on noted Telangana filmmaker, writer, painter, photographer, theatre practitioner, musician and cultural archivist B. Narsing Rao.
Among the degree recipients are 43 Army personnel, including four undergraduate and 39 postgraduate candidates. Of them, 37 are men and six are women.
The university will also award degrees to 27 prisoners from Central Prison Cherlapally, Central Prison Rajahmundry and Central Prison Kadapa. The group includes 26 men and one woman, who will receive 12 undergraduate and 15 postgraduate degrees.
Eleven transgender candidates are also among those receiving degrees at the convocation.
BRAOU will confer 38 gold medals on meritorious students. Women have secured 29 of the medals, while men have won nine. One of the gold medals will be awarded to a prisoner who excelled academically.
Of the 36,145 degrees and qualifications being awarded, 17,960 are undergraduate degrees, while 18,185 are postgraduate degrees, diplomas and certificates.
The university has awarded 6,27,175 degrees over the past 45 years, according to BRAOU officials.
