Igbinedion University Introduces New Programmes, Adds 5 New Departments

Nigeria’s first licenced private university, the Igbinedion University, Okada, Edo State, has moved from 29 departments to 34, and from 38 programmes to 55 programmes.

So far, this is the largest in any private university in the country. Similarly, the university has moved from 19 postgraduate programmes to 24 programmes.

These disclosures were made by the Vice Chancellor of the university, Prof. Lawrence Ikechukwu Ezemonye while speaking to newsmen after the university’s 10th Entrepreneurial Day, a programme designed to encourage productivity among the students of the university.

According to him, the new programmes were digital and technology-based programmes, in line with the mantra of the university to produce “future-ready graduates.”

The VC said the programmes were with a view to affording the students the latitude for IT profiling and they include Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) in Engineering, Mechatronics; B.Sc in Cybersecurity; BSc in Software Engineering; BSc in Environmental Engineering; and B. Sc in Pharmacology.