AUN Gets NUC Approval For Postgraduate Programmes

[Shola Sholaz]

The American University of Nigeria (AUN), Yola has been given approval by the National Universities Commission (NUC), to offer PhD and MSc academic programmes in Business Administration, effective from the 2014/2015 academic session.
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The accreditation was conveyed to the school in a letter dated October 29, 2014, following a resource assessment visit in August by a team of NUC officials.
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The accredited programmes are Accounting, Business Administration, Finance, Management and Entrepreneurship, Marketing, English Language & Literature, Telecommunication & Wireless Technology, Information System, Computer Science, Software Engineering, Economics, International & Comparative Politics, and Mass Communications (Communication & Multimedia, Advertising, Print Journalism, Television/Film, Multimedia Design).
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Reacting to the accreditation, an elated President Margee Ensign said, "I am pleased to announce that AUN, only 10 years old, has received approval to run its first PhD programme."