The Faculty of Arts at the University of Malta held its twenty-ninth edition of the Dean’s List award on Wednesday 9 April 2025. 

Ten students received the award. Bank of Valletta renewed its sponsorship to the Faculty’s Dean’s List.

The Dean’s List award is presented to the students who achieve remarkable grades, including A grades in at least 80 credits, out of a total of 120, during the first two years (full-time or equivalent) of their course.

This year, the students who have made it to the Dean’s List were:-

• Abela Marlena (B.A. Psychology/Sociology)
• Amin Omran Fatima (B.A. Hons Anthropology with Psychology)
• Borg Aimee (B.A. European Global History/Knowledge and Information Management)
• Brincat Francesca (B.A. French/German)
• Cachia Bradley (B.A. Hons Maltese with Communications)
• Camilleri Tyler Luke (B.A. Hons German with International Relations)
• Ellul Luca (B.A. Hons Linguistics with Maltese)
• Polidano Jonathan (B.A. Hons Geography with Arabic)
• Porter Nicole (B.A. French/Spanish)
• Spiteri Nathania (B.A. Hons Sociology with Philosophy)

Presenting the students, Professor Dominic Fenech, Dean of the Faculty of Arts, explained how the demanding criteria meant that only truly outstanding students could make it into the list. Noting that students were not competing with each other, but satisfying a set of objective criteria, he observed that the number of students qualified to join the List had grown over the years, and now represents about five per cent of their cohort, which was an indication of the quality of the Faculty’s students.

He also noted that the geographical distribution of the students’ addresses indicated that the best students did not necessarily come from the more reputedly prosperous areas.

Congratulating the students on behalf of the Bank of Valletta, Mr Charles Azzopardi expressed his satisfaction that the Bank had been sponsoring the Dean’s List since the beginning without interruption.

He said that the Bank considered sponsorships like this to be part of its obligation to society, in particular where investing in education and excellence was concerned.