By Jimmy Jackson
The National Universities Commission (NUC) has granted full accreditation to 24 academic programmes in the University of Calabar.
In a letter signed by Engr. Abraham Chundusu, on behalf of the Executive Secretary of the NUC, the Commission conveyed the outcome of the comprehensive accreditation exercise carried out in the institution in October/November 2024 to the university’s Vice Chancellor, Prof. Florence Banku Obi.
The accredited programmes include Agriculture, Fisheries, and Aquaculture with full accreditation status.
Other fully accredited programmes are Medical Laboratory Science, Christian Religious Studies, English and Literary Studies, Philosophy, and Religious and Cultural Studies.
Additionally, programmes such as Adult Education, Education, Agricultural Science, and Library and Information Science in the Faculty of Education also received full accreditation. The Dentistry programme in the Faculty of Dentistry was fully accredited.
In the Faculty of Biological Sciences and Physical Sciences, programmes including Applied Chemistry, Applied Geophysics, Biochemistry, Botany, Genetics and Biotechnology, Geology, and Pure Chemistry were all fully accredited.
The Faculty of Administration and Management Sciences’ programmes, including MSc. Business Administration, Master of Public Administration, MSc. Banking and Finance, Accounting, Banking and Finance, and Public Administration were all fully accredited, while Marketing secured interim accreditation.
The Faculty of Social Sciences’ programmes, Economics and Geography, were also fully accredited. Computer Science in the Faculty of Computing also received full accreditation, while the Pharm D programme in the Faculty of Pharmacy received interim accreditation.
The full accreditation status indicates that those programmes will run for five (5) years before another accreditation exercise would be carried out by NUC.
