The Cosmopolitan University, Abuja is set to begin academic activities in September in 16 programmes and three faculties.
The university is one of the 37 newly approved private universities by former President Muhammadu Buhari in May 2023.
The vice-chancellor of the institution, Prof. Carl Adams, disclosed this during an interaction with the press on Thursday.
He said the university would be embedded with entrepreneurship and innovations that would encourage partnerships between businesses, professions, innovators and other academic organisation, noting that students would be placed to be academic, business, industry and thought leaders of the future.
”In education, we want to gain international footprint, international expertise, looking at the best in the world. So the idea is that why send somebody to London, Berlin or New York to get an international good quality experience, where we can have it here.
“And we want to keep those students here to develop them. We want our students to be the thought leaders, not just in Nigeria but at the world.
”We are making our students at the forefront of technological thinking not as just looking at technology but engage with them so they are able to understand, analyse, evaluate the technology and apply it to real world problems,” Adams said.
He said the university would be collaborating with local and foreign businesses to grow students potentials in Artificial Intelligence (AI), in research and businesses.
When asked how the university sort for its academic staff, the vice-chancellor said that the university would choose the best lecturers both local and international from pools of application received through advertisement.
According to him, “We are bringing in staff who are again at a variety of levels. We want motivated staff, good staff that can really take forward that learning experience for the students.”
