NUC Approves New Undergraduate and Postgraduate Programs for Gombe State University

The National Universities Commission (NUC) has approved 31 new programmes for Gombe state university effective from the 2023/2024 academic session.

This approval was conveyed in a memo dated 3rd July 2023 addressed to the vice chancellor.

“I am directed to inform the Vice-Chancellor that the Executive Secretary has considered and

approved the establishment of the new undergraduate and postgraduate programmes, to be run in the Main Campus of the University with effect from the 2023/2024 academic session”

The newly approved programs are:

• B.Sc. International Relations 

• B.Sc. Banking and Finance

• Master of Accounting

•  BLIS. Library and Information Science

•  B.Ed. Educational Administration and Planning

•  B.Sc. Biotechnology

• B.Sc. Environmental Chemistry and Toxicology

• B.Sc Industrial Chemistry

• M.Sc. Analytical and Environmental Chemistry

• B.N.Sc. Nursing Science

• B.Sc. Human Nutrition and Dietetics

•  B.Sc. Public Health

• B.Sc. Pharmacology 

• Pharm. D. Doctor of Pharmacy

• PUD, MS and Ph.D, Mathematics 

• PGD and M.Sc Health Economics

• Professional Master in Development Economics

• PGD Islamic Studies

• Professional Masters in Islamic Banking and Finance

• PGD. Christian Religious and Theological Studies

• Master of Criminology and Security Studies

• PGD Microbiology

•  PGD., M.Sc. and Ph.D. Statistics

• Master of Management Information Systems

• PGD., M.Sc. and Ph.D. Human Anatomy

• PGD., M.Sc. and Ph.D. Human Physiology 

• M.Sc. and Ph.D. Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases

• Professional Master in Pastoral Care and Counselling

•  Professional Master in Religious Peace and Ecumenical Studies

• M.Sc. and PhD Human Reproduction

However, approval was not granted for the B.Sc. (Ed) Accounting programme, due to the non-availability of the BMAS and the University does not have the programme as a teaching subject The University is advised to apply for the B.Sc. Business Education programme instead

The University is advised to domicile the B.Sc. Nutrition and Dietetics programme in the

The board added that the approval does not cover the part-time mode of delivery of the undergraduate programmes. All programmes shall bear only the approved title and nomenclature and any change will require the approval of the Commission. 

“The University is enjoined to provide adequate human and material resources for the development and growth of the approved programmes.”

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