The National Universities Commission (NUC) has given approval for 14 new undergraduate courses for Anchor University, Lagos (AUL). With the approval, AUL can now admit new students into the newly approved programmes from this 2018/2019 academic session in addition to the existing 15 programmes it started with in February 2017.
This feat was disclosed by the University’s Vice Chancellor, Joseph Olasehinde Afolayan, a professor of Engineering, at a media briefing held at the AUL main campus, Ayobo, Lagos.
“As part of our determination to offer competitive courses that will attract more students, and deepen our heritage as a University, Anchor University applied to the NUC to allow us float new undergraduate degree programmes. The effort started last year and it resulted in the visit of the NUC Resource Verification Teams to our campus at the beginning of this month,” said Afolayan.
According to the VC, the approval is not just a confirmation of Anchor University’s readiness to take the bull by the horns despite its young age; it is also a proof of the trust the system has in what the university is capable of doing. “It is uncommon to have such a large number of new courses approved at once even for universities that have existed for decades,” Afolayan said.
According to the Vice Chancellor, at the moment the institution has the capacity to accommodate 2000 students, with capacity for 50 students per programmes. On the other hand, he revealed that 60 million textbooks and journals can be accessed on the university library online.
The newly approved programmes are B.Sc Information Technology; B.Sc Physics with Electronics; B.Sc Biotechnology; B.Sc Industrial Chemistry; B.Sc Geology; B.Sc Applied Geophysics; B.Sc International Relations and B.Sc Banking and Finance.
Others are B.A French; B.Sc [Ed.] Chemistry; B.Sc (Ed.) Biology; B.Sc (Ed.) Mathematics; B.Sc (Ed.) Physics; B.Sc (Ed.) Computer Science.
Anchor University started operations formally on 1 February 2017, with a vision focused on becoming one of the top five Universities in Nigeria within the first ten years of operation. The university training programmes are tailored to ensure AUL students are self reliant through entrepreneurial skills.
The VC, who also spoke on AUL’s exploits within a limited time since inception, said: “In the first few months after our inception, Anchor University presented students for Professional Examinations in Accounting. It will interest you to know that we recorded about 95percent pass in the examination; and that was just about six months after we started. Since then, many of our students have continued to prove themselves in external examinations.”
According to him, “Anchor University also became an affiliate institution to the Joint Universities Preliminary Examinations Board (JUPEB), and we successfully graduated the first set of the programme early June 2018. Successful candidates in the programme are qualified for direct entry admission into Anchor University or any other universities.
“Less than one month ago, three of our students in the Computer Science Department completed an international training in ICT through a Scholarship offered by the New Horizons System Solutions. Without doubts, our students are being prepared to get out of the University and compete courageously and seamlessly with their colleagues from any part of the world. We have no doubts about this.”
SEYI JOHN SALAU
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