The NUC is the government agency that has the statutory mandate to accredit university academic programs in Nigeria.
The accreditation was conveyed to the
university on October 29, 2014, following a resource assessment visit in
August by a team of NUC officials, a statement by the AUN Executive
Director of Communications & Public Relations Daniel Okereke said.
The letter was signed by the NUC Director, Academic Standards, Dr. G.B. Kumo, for the Executive Secretary, Prof Julius Okojie.
Reacting to the accreditation, President
of AUN Margee Ensign said: “I am pleased to announce that AUN, only ten
years old has received approval to run its first PhD program.”
Dean of the School of Business &
Entrepreneurship, Professor Linus Osuagwu, explained that the school is
fully set to commence admission into the M.Sc. and PhD programs starting
2015.
In April 2013, the NUC reassessed the
university’s human and material resources and issued it with another
five-year full accreditation to all the academic programs which had been
first accredited in 2008.
The accredited programs are Accounting,
Business Administration, Finance, Management & Entrepreneurship,
Marketing, English Language & Literature, Telecommunication &
Wireless Technology, Information System, Computer Science, Software
Engineering, Economics, International & Comparative Politics, and
Mass Communications (Communication & Multimedia, Advertising, Print
Journalism, Television/Film, Multimedia Design.)
As an institution modelled on American
university pedagogy, AUN, now in its 10th year, strives to comply with
both the American accreditation standards as well as those of the NUC.
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