The National Union Commission (NUC) has approved five new graduate program for American University of Nigeria (AUN).
The spokesperson of the private owned University, Daniel Okereke, who disclosed this in a statement on Friday said the approvals was conveyed in a letter to the President of the university and signed by N.B. Saliu, Director of Academic Planning, for the NUC on 3 March 2023.
According to him, the new programs were in addition to Computer Science, Software Engineering, and Information Systems, which the University offers at the Bachelor’s, Master’s, Doctorate, Postgraduate diploma, and professional levels.
He listed the approved programs which includes the Master of Business Administration (MBA), Master of science (M.Sc.) in Communication for Social and Behavior change, M.Sc. and PhD in Communication and multimedia design, M.Sc. and PhD in petroleum chemistry and M.A in English Language and Literature.
He added that all the newly approved Graduate School programs will begin in Fall 2023.
“the Master of Business Administration (MBA), which will be offered in a hybrid mode. The School of Business & Entrepreneurship (SBE) already runs M.Sc. and Ph.D. programs in addition to the Postgraduate Diploma. Offering the highly-rated MBA in a hybrid mode will offer ambitious and busy professionals in major cities an opportunity to take full advantage of AUN’s advanced technological support and learning facilities to further their careers.
“Also approved for AUN by the NUC is a Master of Science (M.Sc.) in Communication for Social and Behavior Change. The Master’s program, which is developed and will be run in collaboration with the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), will be domiciled in the Communication & Multimedia Design (CMD) department.
“The CMD department also got approval to offer M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Communication and Multimedia Design courses. AUN’s CMD department offers Public Relations/Advertising, Journalism, Multimedia Design, and Radio/Television/Film concentrations at the Bachelor’s degree level.
“AUN also got approval from NUC to offer M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Petroleum Chemistry and M.A. in English Language and Literature.”
He continued that the Interim President of the American University of Nigeria (AUN), Professor Attahir Yusuf, had described the new approvals as affirming the NUC’s confidence in AUN’s institutional integrity.
Stating that the new approvals bring to 20 the total number of programs offered by the AUN Graduate School.