The National Universities Commission (NUC) has approved the commencement of 20 new programmes at Lagos State University (LASU), effective from the 2023/2024 academic session.

The newly approved programmes include B.Sc. Architecture, B.Sc. Building, B.Sc. Estate Management, B.Sc. Environmental Management, B.Sc. Industrial Design, B.Sc. Survey and Geo-Informatics, B.Sc. Quantity Surveying, B.Sc. Urban and Regional Planning, B.A. Fine Arts, B.LIS. Library and Information Science, and B.Ed. Special Education.

Others are B.Eng. Industrial Engineering and Production, B. Radiography and Radiation Science, and BMLS. Medical Laboratory Science, B.A. Linguistics, B.Eng. Civil Engineering, B.Sc. Science Laboratory Technology, and B.Sc Taxation at the undergraduate level.

Those approved for postgraduate level include Doctor of Pharmacy (Pharm.D), and Doctor of Physiotherapy (DPT).

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The LASU Coordinator, Centre for Information and Public Relations, Thomas-Onashile Oluwayemisi, who made this known via a statement issued on Friday, July 7, noted that the approval followed a resource verification exercise carried out in April 2023 by panels of experts from the NUC on the 20 new programmes domiciled in the four newly established faculties – Faculty of Pharmacy, Faculty of Allied Health Sciences, Faculty of Environmental Sciences, and School of Library, Archival and Information Science – in the university.

Oluwayemisi stated that the NUC’s letter of approval received by LASU on Friday, July 7, said the programmes will run full-time, effective from the 2023/2024 academic session.

“The approval marks the fulfilment of one of the strategic goals of the current administration of the University under the leadership of Prof. Ibiyemi Ibilola Olatunji-Bello, which is to establish and commence new academic programmes in four new Faculties and School of the University,” the university spokesperson added.

Reacting to the development, the LASU Vice Chancellor appreciated the governor of Lagos State and Visitor to the university, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, for providing the leadership and support to actualise the goal just she congratulated the entire university community on the achievement.

The Star