Emmanuel Ugwu-Nwogo in Enugu
The College of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN) has persisted to increase and fine-tune its educational programmes to align with staff calls for of the high-tech-driven world economic system.
The establishment has secured the approval of the Nationwide Universities Fee (NUC) to begin 12 new full-time undergraduate educational programmes with impact from the 2026/2027 educational consultation.
In keeping with a press liberate from the Public Family members Unit, the NUC conveyed popularity of the programmes in a letter dated Sep 11, 2026, signed by way of the Director of Educational Making plans, Abubakar M. Girei, on behalf of the chief secretary.
The NUC letter of approval was once addressed to the Vice-Chancellor of UNN, Prof. Simon Ortuanya, and authorises the college to ascertain the programmes at its campuses.
The approval adopted a useful resource verification discuss with by way of a panel of mavens from the regulatory company to evaluate the human and subject material assets to be had for the proposed programmes. The newly authorized programmes lower throughout engineering, nuclear science, well being, schooling and data era, thereby “increasing the college’s educational choices in rising and specialized fields.”
The brand new programmes come with B.Eng. Car Engineering; B.Eng. Nuclear Engineering; B.Sc. Nuclear Science; B.Sc. Pharmacology; B.Sc. Well being Care Management and Health facility Control; Optometry; and B.Ed. Tutorial Control. This programme provides choices in Politics, Philosophy and Economics; English and Literary Research; Political Science; Geography; Social Research; and Trade Schooling. Different authorized programmes are B.Sc. Cyber Safety; B.Sc. Synthetic Intelligence; B.Sc. Information Science; B.Sc. Device Engineering; and B.Sc. Data Era.
The NUC approval covers the full-time mode of supply most effective, with the NUC emphasising that the College must notify it “for additional processing” earlier than setting out part-time supply or the postgraduate elements of the authorized programmes.
The fee additionally directed UNN to retain the authorized titles and nomenclature of the programmes, including that any adjustments will require its approval. It additional enjoined the College to supply good enough human and subject material assets to toughen the improvement and expansion of the brand new programmes.
Reacting to the improvement, Ortuanya mentioned the approval was once crucial step within the College’s ongoing efforts to increase alternatives for college kids and enhance its capability to answer the wishes of a unexpectedly converting global. He added that the college would be sure that the authorized programmes had been supported with the needful human and subject material assets, consistent with NUC requirements.
The advent of the 12 new educational programmes marks an important growth of the college’s educational portfolio forward of the 2026/2027 educational consultation.