KWASU Received Accreditation from NUC to Teach 10 New Courses

The National Universities Commission (NUC) has gave it accreditation for 10 new programmes to be run by the Kwara State University (KWASU), set to take effect from the 2024/2025 session.

The Acting Director, University Relations, Dr Saeedat Aliyu in a statement on the 18th of December, said the approval is contained in a letter to the Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Shaykh-Luqman Jimoh.

According to the statement, the letter was signed by the commission’s Acting Director, Academic Planning, Abubakar Girei, on behalf of the Acting executive secretary.

“The approval was based on the results of assessments from the resource verification visit carried out by panels of experts to the proposed academic programmes.
“The approved programmes include:

• B.Sc. Estate Management
• B.Sc. Geography
• B.Sc. Urban and Regional Planning
• B.Sc. Mining Engineering
• B.Sc. Marketing
• B.Sc. Sociology
• B.Sc. Criminology and Security Studies
• B.Sc. Physiology
• B.Sc. Human Anatomy
• B.Sc. Cyber Security

“The letter, dated Dec. 10, 2024, noted that the programmes are to be in full-time mode while the university was urged to provide adequate human and material resources for the development and growth of the approved programmes’’, Aliyu said.

She quoted the vice chancellor in a reaction to the approval, describing it as timely and a reflection of the university’s readiness to train quality human resources that will impact society.

He noted that with the addition of the 10 programmes brings the undergraduate courses run by the University to 80, he lauded the staff of the institution for working assiduously to secure the approval from the regulatory commission

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