degree program essentials
undergraduate curriculum
The curriculum is designed to reflect the state-of-the-art in management education as obtaining in the leading schools of business but adapted to address management problems of Africa.
The curriculum emphasizes an integrated approach whereby the student will acquire a basic education to develop his intellectual and analytical ability while at the same time acquiring the body of knowledge and skills in professional management. As such, the first two years will be spent mainly in basic education in the older disciplines of Mathematics, Communication, Economics, and Humanities while the remaining two years will be devoted mainly to specialized subjects in accounting, economics, marketing, finance, human resources management, risk management, quantitative analysis, and public sector management.
The second semester of the third year and first semester of fourth year are spent on a supervised industrial attachment, to enable students acquire practical, hands-on experience in industry, commerce and administration. Students on the honours programme will be required to carry out a company based research while on attachment, and write a supervised project report during the 2nd semester of their 4th year.
The curriculum thus consists of four main components or features:
· basic education in mathematics, foreign languages, communications, economics, computer skills, African culture, ethics, psychology, sociology etc;
· an introduction to the basic management areas of marketing, finance, accounting, management, decision-making etc;
· industrial attachment, and individual study;
· a major in Accounting, Economics, Management, Marketing, Computer Information Systems or Computer Science
The curriculum emphasizes an integrated approach whereby the student will acquire a basic education to develop his intellectual and analytical ability while at the same time acquiring the body of knowledge and skills in professional management. As such, the first two years will be spent mainly in basic education in the older disciplines of Mathematics, Communication, Economics, and Humanities while the remaining two years will be devoted mainly to specialized subjects in accounting, economics, marketing, finance, human resources management, risk management, quantitative analysis, and public sector management.
The second semester of the third year and first semester of fourth year are spent on a supervised industrial attachment, to enable students acquire practical, hands-on experience in industry, commerce and administration. Students on the honours programme will be required to carry out a company based research while on attachment, and write a supervised project report during the 2nd semester of their 4th year.
The curriculum thus consists of four main components or features:
· basic education in mathematics, foreign languages, communications, economics, computer skills, African culture, ethics, psychology, sociology etc;
· an introduction to the basic management areas of marketing, finance, accounting, management, decision-making etc;
· industrial attachment, and individual study;
· a major in Accounting, Economics, Management, Marketing, Computer Information Systems or Computer Science
honours
The Faculty has an Honours Programme that seeks to give bright students an opportunity to develop their intellectual abilities to the fullest extent possible. These students are allowed to go outside of the traditional university courses to carry out in-depth explorations of subject matters that interest them. Students are accepted into the Honours Programme at the beginning of their third year of study. To be eligible for the Honours Programme, a student must have a cumulative grade point average (CGPA) of at least 3.20 at the end of second year and maintain this minimum until graduation. Those accepted into the Honours Programme are required to carry out an independent original Honours Project under the supervision of a faculty member. Honours students will also be required to participate in Honours Seminars and other activities in addition to their normal requirements for graduation. The other regulations of the Honours Programme are as set out in the General Academic Regulations.