THE National Universities Commission, NUC has granted full accreditation to the Federal University Oye-Ekiti (FUOYE) to run additional six postgraduate programmes beginning from the 2019/2020 academic session.
FUOYE’s Vice Chancellor, Professor Kayode Soremekun said the accredited programmes are Food Science and Technology, Electrical and Electronic Engineering Material and Metallurgical Engineering, Geology and Computer Science.
FUOYE commenced its Postgraduate School from the 2018/2019 session with five faculties— Arts, Science, Engineering, Agriculture and Social Sciences – which altogether run 30 academic programmes.
With the accreditation for six new programmes, FUOYE’s postgraduate programmes are now 36.
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Professor Soremekun expressed his delight that the efforts of his administration to reposition FUOYE have started yielding positive results, as evident in the many infrastructural projects dotting the landscape of the twin campuses of the university in Oye and Ikole, and the ever increasing admission quota and students’ enrolment, among others.
He also revealed that the management would today (Thursday, September 26) sign a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) that would empower the university to run Distance Learning programmes after the NUC’s accreditation on the programmes
