Katsina Times
Umaru Musa Yar’adua University (UMYU), Katsina, has secured full accreditation for 28 academic programmes following the 2025 accreditation exercise conducted by the National Universities Commission (NUC).
The accredited programmes span several faculties of the university, reflecting what the institution described as a major boost to its academic standing.
In the Faculty of Management Sciences, the accredited courses are B.Sc. Accounting, B.Sc. Business Administration and B.Sc. Public Administration.
The Faculty of Agriculture has three programmes accredited: B.Sc. Agriculture, B.Sc. Fisheries and Aquaculture, and B.Sc. Forestry and Wildlife Management.
Similarly, the Faculty of Humanities recorded four accredited programmes, namely B.A. Arabic, B.A. History and Security Studies, B.A. Islamic Studies and B.A. Shari’ah.
The Faculty of Natural and Applied Sciences secured accreditation for six programmes: B.Sc. Computer Science, B.Sc. Industrial Chemistry, B.Sc. Microbiology, B.Sc. Physics, B.Sc. Biology and B.Sc. Chemistry.
In the Faculty of Education, seven programmes received full accreditation. They include B.Sc. (Ed) Biology, B.Sc. (Ed) Chemistry, B.A. (Ed) English, B.A. (Ed) Hausa, B.A. (Ed) History, B.A. (Ed) Islamic Studies and B.Sc. (Ed) Physics.
The Faculty of Earth and Environmental Sciences has two accredited programmes: B.Sc. Geography and B.Sc. Environmental Management.
The College of Health Sciences also secured full accreditation for its MBBS Medicine and Surgery programme.
In the Faculty of Social Sciences, B.Sc. Political Science and B.Sc. Sociology were accredited.
The university management, in a statement signed by the Assistant Chief Information and Protocol Officer, Nabila Dahiru Anche, expressed appreciation to stakeholders, including the Katsina State Government, members of the university senate and the entire university community, for their roles in achieving the milestone.
It reaffirmed the institution’s commitment to sustaining academic excellence and improving the quality of its programmes.
