NUC Certifies NOUN Master’s Degrees In Business, Public Admin

The National Universities Commission (NUC) has approved for the
National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN) to run master’s degrees
in Business Administration and Public Administration.

This followed the release of an accreditation exercise carried
out by the regulatory body for postgraduate programmes of the
university.

A statement by NOUN spokesperson, Ibrahim Sheme said both
Programmes have received full five-year accreditation.

He said the NOUN Vice-Chancellor, Prof Abdalla Uba Adamu,
recieved it in a communique dated 15th January, 2019, the NUC told
the university it could now run the two postgraduate programmes
fully.

The NUC accredited the university’s MSc Business Administration
at 88.7% and MSc Public Administration at 89.5%.

It would be recalled that the two programmes were put on hold in
2016 with a view to reorganise and review the administration of the
programmes to meet the NUC’s Benchmark Minimum Academic Standard
(BMAS).

Having carried the initial resource verification exercise by the
regulatory body, the NUC sent its accreditation team to the
university in September, 2018 to appraise the programmes and
confirm their viability.

The latest clean bill of health on the programmes has
strengthened the programmes that are already on-going since the
resource verification exercise in 2017.