American University of Nigeria (AUN) has received the National Universities Commission’s (NUC) approval to offer a Master of Science degree in Communication for Social and Behaviour Change.
The Master’s programme, which is developed and will be run in collaboration with the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), begins in the fall (September) semester, according to Daniel Okereke, the executive director marketing and communications of the university.
He disclosed that AUN also received NUC’s approval to offer a Master of Business Administration (MBA) in a hybrid mode, allowing candidates to take full advantage of AUN’s advanced technological support and learning facilities to further their academic and professional careers.
The NUC also approved AUN to roll out M.Sc. and Ph.D. degree programmes in Communication and multimedia design (CMD), M.Sc. and Ph.D. in petroleum chemistry, and M.A. in English Language and literature. All the newly approved Graduate School programmes will begin in the Fall 2023 semester.
The NUC approvals were conveyed in a letter to the president of the university dated March 3, 2023, and signed by director of academic planning for the executive secretary, Dr. N.B. Saliu.
The interim president of the American University of Nigeria (AUN), Professor Attahir Yusuf, described the new approvals as an affirmation of the NUC’s confidence in AUN’s institutional integrity.
