UNIJOS GETS NUC's ACCREDITATION FOR 17th COURSES

The University of Jos has recently secured full accreditation for Seventeen (17) of its programmes which were recently assessed by the National Universities Commission (NUC).

This followed the visitation of the accreditation team of NUC to the university in December, 2017. The Team visited six (6) Faculties including Education, Environmental Sciences, Medicine, Pharmacy, Science and Social Sciences.

Consequently, the university was able to secure full accreditation for Seventeen (17) Programmes out of the Twenty (20) Programmes assessed by the Accreditation Team. Three programmes were however, denied accreditation.

The Programmes given full accreditation are Guidance and Counselling, English Education, French Education, History Education, Religious Studies, Social Studies, Special Education, Architecture and Building.

Others include Medicine and Surgery, Pharmacy, Computer Science, Geology, Microbiology, Zoology, Geography and Planning as well as Mass Communication.

The Three (3) Courses denied accreditation are Industrial Chemistry, Chemistry and Botany.