UNILORIN gets NUC accreditation for 37 courses

 

The University of Ilorin has secured the National Universities Commission’s approval for all courses presented for the October/November 2024 accreditation exercise.

The NUC granted approval for the university’s 37 programmes, including Igbo and Hausa languages.

The news was contained in a press statement signed by the university’s Director of Corporate Affairs, Mr Kunle Akogun, on Tuesday.

The statement read, “UNILORIN secures 100% NUC accreditation. With 36 of the 37 courses it presented for the National Universities Commission (NUC) accreditation exercise securing full accreditation and the remaining one getting interim accreditation.

“The result of the accreditation exercise carried out in October/November 2024, which has just been released, was contained in a letter dated April 30, 2025, and addressed to the Vice Chancellor, Professor Wahab Egbewole, SAN, by the Executive Secretary of the Commission, Professor Abdullahi Ribadu.

“In the letter, signed on behalf of Professor Ribadu, by the NUC Acting Director of Accreditation, Engr. Abraham Chundusu, the Commission explained that while 36 courses were granted full accreditation status, only one, Hausa, was granted interim accreditation.”

It stated further that, “No course was denied accreditation and the Faculty of Management Sciences, Finance, which was presented, was granted full accreditation. “The Faculty of Basic Medical Science, Anatomy, which was the only programme presented, attracted full accreditation, just as Computer Science at the Faculty of Communication and Information Sciences was also granted full accreditation.