The American University of Nigeria has been given approval by the National Universities Commission to offer PhD and MSc academic programmes in Business Administration, effective from the 2014/2015 academic session.
The accreditation was conveyed to AUN in a letter dated October 29, 2014, following a resource assessment visit in August by a team of NUC officials.
The letter was signed by the NUC’s Director of Academic Standards, Dr. G.B. Kumo, for the Executive Secretary, Prof. Julius Okojie.
Reacting to the accreditation, an elated President Margee Ensign said: “I am pleased to announce that AUN, only ten years old, has received approval to run its first PhD programme.”
The Dean of the School of Business and Entrepreneurship, Prof. Linus Osuagwu, explained that the school is fully set to commence admission into the M.Sc. and PhD programmes starting 2015.
A little more than one year ago (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 programmes 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 modeled 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.
The NUC is the government agency that has the statutory mandate to accredit university academic programs in Nigeria.
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