University only graduates a third of yearly enrolments

Mozambique’s largest higher education institution, the Eduardo Mondlane University (UEM), graduates only about a third of the students admitted each year, reports AIM.

According to the UEM vice-chancellor, Manuel Guilherme Júnior, speaking in Maputo on Thursday during the presentation of the institution’s 2024 annual report, this pattern is repeated at the end of each training cycle.

The report, which points to the graduation of students from the university system as the highest point of the teaching-learning mission, reveals that the evolution of the graduation rate over the last five years (2020-24) has fluctuated significantly, with a downward trend. The report points out that between 2020 and 2024, the UEM admitted an average of more than 5,000 students a year, but only just over 1,500 completed their courses each year, leaving over 3,000 students a year behind.
Full report on the Club of Mozambique site