Commission Accredits Programmes At Cross River Varsity

The National Universities Commission has accredited 15 courses at the University of Cross River State.

Vice Chancellor of the institution, Prof. Francisca Bassey, announced this after an emergency Senate meeting held at the Calabar campus yesterday.

She said, “All academic programmes presented for accreditation in November and December 2025 received full accreditation, with the exception of one programme, which was granted interim accreditation.”

Programmes that secured full accreditation include Human Kinetics and Health Education, Urban and Regional Planning, Economics, Peace and Conflict Studies, Sociology, Banking and Finance, Entrepreneurship Studies.

Others include, Marketing, Forestry and Wildlife, Broadcasting, Journalism and Media Studies, Information Systems, Software Engineering, Animal and Environmental Biology, Industrial Chemistry, and Plant Science Biology. The Department of Childhood Education received Interim Accreditation.

The vice chancellor noted that prior to the recent exercise, the Department of Urban and Regional Planning had been denied accreditation twice and was consequently unable to admit new students.

She added that the Department of Forestry and Wildlife had also faced two previous accreditation setbacks. Many of the now fully accredited programmes are relatively new, making the achievement particularly significant for the university.