The National Universities Commission (NUC) has approved 10 new programmes to be run at Kwara State University (KWASU), Malete from the 2024/2025 session.
The approval, which is contained in a letter to the vice chancellor of KWASU, Prof. Shaykh-Luqman Jimoh, and signed by the NUC’s acting director of Academic Planning, Abubakar Girei, said that 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 new programmes approved for the university include Estate Management, Geography, Urban and Regional Planning, Mining Engineering, Marketing, Sociology, Criminology and Security Studies; Physiology, Human Anatomy and Cyber Security.
The NUC in its letter dated December 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.
The vice chancellor of KWASU, Prof. Shaykh-Luqman Jimoh, in a statement signed by the university’s acting director of Relations, Dr Saeedat Aliyu, described the NUC’s approval for the new programmes as timely and a reflection of the university’s readiness to train quality human resources that will impact the society.
He noted that the approval brings the undergraduate programmes run by KWASU to 80 and lauded the staff of the institution for working assiduously to secure the approval from the regulatory commission.
