The National Universities Commission recently unveiled a newly restructured curriculum for Nigerian universities.
The acting Executive Secretary of the commission, Dr. Chris Maiyaki, during a meeting with stakeholders last week, reiterated that the implementation of the new curriculum will commence in September 2023.
According to Maiyaki, the new curriculum CCMAS would make up 70 per cent of the curriculum while the university decides what to include in the remaining 30 per cent.
According to him, the implementation will help sharpen the future of education sector.
The new curriculum as analysed by The PUNCH means that universities in the country will officially have 17 disciplines of faculties namely Administration and Management; Agriculture; Allied Health Sciences; Architecture; Arts; Basic Medical Sciences; Communications and Media Studies; Computing; Education; Engineering and Technology; Environmental Sciences; Law; Medicine and Dentistry; Pharmaceutical Sciences; Sciences; Social Sciences and Veterinary Medicine.
Notable points to look out for include the unbundling of mass communications to create a distinct discipline of Communications comprising degree programmes in Advertising, Broadcasting, Development Communication Studies, Film and Multimedia, Information and Media Studies, Journalism and Media Studies, Mass Communication, Public Relations and Strategic Communication; Agriculture was unbundled into programmes in its contributing components of B.Sc Agricultural Economics, B.Sc. Animal Science, B.Sc. Crop Science and B.Sc. Soil Science;
The unbundling of Architecture and introduction of Architecture as a new discipline with programmes like Architecture, Architectural Technology, Furniture Design, Interior Architecture Design, Landscape Architecture and Naval architecture;
The split of the Basic Medical Sciences discipline into two – Basic Medical
Sciences and Allied Health Sciences;
Attached to this article is the full list of programmes in their respective disciplines.
*-Administration and Management*
1. Department of Accounting
2. Department of Actuarial Science
3. Department of Aviation Management
4. Department of Finance
Department of Business Administration
5. Department of Business Information Technology
6. Department of Co-operative and Rural Development
7. Department of Employment and Human Resource Management
8. Department of Entrepreneurship
9. Department of Hospitality and Tourism Management B.Sc.
10. Department of Information Resource Management B.Sc.
11. Department of Insurance B.Sc.
12. Department of Local Government and Development Studies B.Sc.
13. Department of Logistics and Supply Chain Management B.Sc
14. Department of Marketing B.Sc.
15. Department of Office and Information Management B.Sc.
16. Department Petroleum Information Management B.Sc.
17. Department Procurement Management B.Sc.
18. Department of Project Management
19. Department of Public Administration
20. Department of Security and Investment
21. Department of Taxation
22. Department of Transport Management
*-Faculty of Agriculture*
1. Agribusiness
B.Sc. Agribusiness
2. Agricultural Science (5-year option)
B. Agriculture
3. Agricultural Economics
B.Sc. Agricultural Economics
4. Agricultural Extension
B.Sc. Agricultural Extension
5. Animal Science
B.Sc. Animal Science
6. Crop Science
B.Sc. Crop Science
7. Family and Consumer Sciences
B. Sc. Family and Consumer Sciences
8. Fisheries and Aquaculture
B.Sc. Fisheries and Aquaculture
9. Food Science and Technology
B. Sc. / B. Tech
10.Forest Resources and Wildlife Management
B.Sc. Forest Resources and Wildlife Management
11. Horticulture and Landscape Management
B.Sc. Horticulture and landscape Management
12. Soil Science
B.Sc. Soil Science
13. Water Resources Management and Agro-meteorology
14. B.Sc. Water Resources and Ago-meteorology
*-Faculty of Allied Health Sciences*
1. Audiology – B.AUD
2. Complementary and Alternative Medicine – B.Sc. CAM
3. Dental Technology B.Sc. DNT
4. Dental Therapy B.DT
5. Environmental Health Science B.EHS
6. Health Care Administration and Hospital Management B.Sc. HAM
7. Health Information Management
B.HIM
8. Information Technology and Health Informatics B.Sc. ITH
9. Medical Laboratory Science BMLS
10. Nursing Sciences B.N.Sc
11. Human Nutrition and Dietetics B.Sc.
12. Occupational Therapy B.OT.
13. Optometry O.D
14. Pharmacology B.Sc. PHA
15. Physiotherapy DP
16. Prosthetics and Orthotics B.Sc. P&O
17. Public Health B.Sc.
18. Radiography B.Rad
19. Speech-Language Therapy B.SLT
*-Architecture*
1. Architecture
2. Architectural technology
3. Furniture design
4. Interior architecture design
5. Landscape architecture
6. Naval architecture
*-Arts*
1.B.A Folklore
2. B.A Film production
3. B.A African Languages and Literature Efik
4. B.A African Languages and Literature Hausa
5. B.A African Languages and Literature Ibibio
6. B.A African Languages and Literature Igbo
7. B.A African Languages and Literature Yoruba
8. B.A African Traditional Religion
9. B.A Arabic
10. B.A Archaeology
11. B.A Chinese language
12. B.A Christian Religious Studies
13. B.A Christian Theology
14. B.A Classics
15. B.A English Language and Literature in English
16. B.A history and diplomatic studies
17. B.A History
18. B.A Islamic studies
19. B.A Linguistics
20. B.A Modern European Languages French
21. B.A Modern European Languages German
22. B.A Modern European Languages German
23. B.A Modern European Languages Russia
24. B.A Music
25. B.A Philosophy
26. B.A Religious Studies
27. B.A Theatre Arts
*-Basic Medical Sciences*
1. Human Anatomy B.Sc.
2 Physiology B.Sc.
*-Communications and Media Studies*
1. BSC Strategic communications
2. BSC advertising
3. BSC Broadcasting
4. BSC Development Communications Studies
5. BSC Film and multimedia
6. BSC Information and Media Studies
7. BSC Journalism and Media Studies
8. BSC Mass Communications
9. BSC Public Relations
*-Computing*
1. BSC Cybersecurity
2.BSC Software Engineering
3. BSC Data Science
4. BSC Information and Communications Technology
5.BSC of Information Technology
6. BSC Information System
7.BSC Computer Science
*-Education*
1 Adult and Continuing Education B. Ed
2 Agricultural Education B. Sc. (Ed)
3 Arabic B. A. (Ed)
4 Biology B. Sc. (Ed)
5 Business Education B. Sc. (Ed)
6 Chemistry B. Sc. (Ed)
7 Christian Religious Studies B.A. (Ed)
8 Computer Science B. Sc. (Ed)
9 Creative Arts Education B. A. (Ed)
10 Early Childhood Education B. (Ed)
11 Economics B. Sc. (Ed)
12 Educational Management B. (Ed)
13 Efik-Ibibio Education B. A. (Ed)
14 English Language/Literature-in-English B. A. (Ed)
15 Entrepreneurship Education B. Ed
16 Environmental Education B. Sc. (Ed)
17 French B. A. (Ed)
18 Geography B. Sc. (Ed)
19 Guidance and Counseling B. (Ed)
20 Hausa B. A. (Ed)
21 Health Education B. (Ed)
22 History B. A. (Ed)
23 Home Economics B. Sc. (Ed)
24 Human Kinetics/Physical Education B. (Ed)
25 Igbo B. A. (Ed)
26 Integrated Science B. Sc. (Ed)
27 Islamic Studies B. A. (Ed)
28 Language Arts and Communication B. A. (Ed)
29 Library and Information Science B. Ed
30 Mathematics B. Sc. (Ed)
31 Music B. A. (Ed)
32 Physics B. Sc. (Ed)
33 Political Science B. Sc. (Ed)
34 Primary Education B. Ed
35 Social Studies and Civic Education B. Sc. (Ed)
36 Special Needs Education B. (Ed)
37 Sustainable Development Studies B. Sc. (Ed)
38 Technology Education B. Tech. (Ed)
39 Yoruba
*-ENGINEERING*
1 Aerospace Engineering
B.Eng./B. Tech./B.Sc.
2 Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering
B.Eng./B. Tech./B.Sc.
3 Automotive Engineering
B.Eng./B. Tech./B.Sc.
4 Biomedical Engineering
B.Eng./B. Tech./B.Sc.
5 Chemical Engineering
B.Eng./B. Tech./B.Sc.
6 Civil Engineering
B.Eng./B. Tech./B.Sc.
7 Computer Engineering
B.Eng./B. Tech./B.Sc.
8 Electrical Engineering
B.Eng./B. Tech./B.Sc.
9 Electrical and Electronic Engineering
B.Eng./B. Tech./B.Sc.
10 Electronic Engineering
B.Eng./B. Tech./B.Sc.
11 Environmental Engineering
B.Eng./B. Tech./B.Sc.
12 Food Science and Engineering/Technology
B.Eng./B. Tech./B.Sc.
13 Industrial and Production Engineering
B.Eng./B. Tech./B.Sc.
14 Information and Communication Engineering
B.Eng./B. Tech./B.Sc.
15 Marine Engineering
B.Eng./B. Tech./B.Sc.
16 Materials and Metallurgical Engineering
B.Eng./B. Tech./B.Sc.
17 Mechanical Engineering
B.Eng./B. Tech./B.Sc.
18 Mechatronics Engineering
B.Eng./B. Tech./B.Sc.
19 Metallurgical Engineering
B.Eng./B. Tech./B.Sc.
20 Mining Engineering
B.Eng./B. Tech./B.Sc.
21 Natural Gas Engineering
B.Eng/B. Tech/B.Sc.
22 Petrochemical Engineering
B.Eng./B. Tech./B.Sc.
23 Petroleum Engineering
B.Eng./B. Tech./B.Sc.
24 Petroleum and Gas Engineering
B.Eng./B. Tech./B.Sc.
25 Structural Engineering
B.Eng./B. Tech./B.Sc.
26 Systems Engineering
B.Eng./B. Tech./B.Sc.
27 Telecommunications Engineering
B.Eng./B. Tech./B.Sc.
28 Water Resources Engineering
B.Eng./B. Tech./B.Sc.
29 Wood Products Engineering
B.Eng./B. Tech./B.Sc.
*-LAW*
1. Common Law
2. Combined Law
*-Medicine and Dentistry*
1 Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS/MBChB)
2 Dentistry Bachelor of Dental Surgery (BDS/BChD)
*-Sciences*
1 Applied Geophysics B.Sc.
2 Biochemistry B.Sc.
3 Biology B.Sc.
4 Biotechnology B.Sc.
5 Botany B.Sc.
6 Brewing Science and Technology B.Sc.
7 Chemistry B.Sc.
8 Environmental Management and Toxicology B.Sc.
9 Forensic Science B.Sc.
10 Geology B.Sc.
11 Industrial Chemistry B.Sc.
12 Industrial Mathematics B.Sc.
13 Industrial Physics B.Sc.
14 Marine Science B.Sc.
15 Maritime Science B.Sc.
16 Mathematics B.Sc.
17 Medical Physics B.Sc.
18 Medicinal Chemistry B.Sc.
19 Meteorology B.Sc.
20 Microbiology B.Sc.
21 Petroleum Chemistry B.Sc.
22 Physics with Electronics B.Sc.
23 Physics B.Sc.
24 Science Laboratory Technology B.Sc.
25 Statistics B.Sc.
26 Zoology B.Sc.
*-SOCIAL SCIENCES*
1 Criminology and Security Studies B.Sc
2 Demography and Social Statistics B.Sc
3 Development Studies B.Sc
4 Economics B.Sc
5 International Relations B.Sc
6 Peace and Conflict Resolution B.Sc
7 Petroleum Economics and Policy Studies B.Sc
8 Political Science B.Sc
9 Politics, Philosophy and Economics B.Sc
10 Psychology B.Sc
11 Social Standards B.Sc
12 Social Work B.Sc.
13 Sociology B.Sc
*-Veterinary medicine*
Doctor of Veterinary Medicine
Courses under Environmental sciences could not be accessed at the time of filing this report
