The National Universities Commission (NUC) granted approval for 13 new undergraduate and postgraduate programmes at Kwara State University (KWASU), Malete.
According to the university’s acting director of University Relations, Dr. Saeedat Aliyu, the approval, which was contained in a letter to the Vice-Chancellor, was signed by the NUC’s Acting Director of Academic Planning, Abubakar Girei, on behalf of the commission’s Acting Executive Secretary.
Two of the programmes are undergraduate, while the remaining 11 are postgraduate.
The recognised undergraduate programmes are B.HIM Health Information Management and B.Sc. Development Studies, while the postgraduate programmes are LL.M. and PhD in Common Law, LL.M. and PhD in Islamic Law, and M.LIS and Ph.D. in Library and Information Science.
The other degrees are PhD in Human Kinetics, PhD in Special Education, M.Sc. Medical Laboratory Science, Masters in Public Sector Accounting, and Masters in Development Finance.
According to the letter, the programmes will be offered full-time and will begin in the academic year 2024/2025.
In his reaction to the NUC approval, the Acting Vice-Chancellor of Kwara State University, Professor Shaykh-Luqman Jimoh, expressed excitement about the new programmes commencing at the university. He commended the state government for its support in achieving this feat while appreciating the steadfastness of the institution’s staff for their readiness to take on the new programmes and contribute more to human capital development.