Philosophy of the Programme

The degree programme in computer science has been designed in such a manner to cover the art, science, engineering and technology of computers and information technology. The students are developed to meet the challenges of self, private and public employment involving the computer hardware system studies, design, assembling, construction, operation and maintenance; computer software system studies, prototyping, development, implementation, documentation and maintenance; fundamentals of informatics; database systems and expert systems; numerical computation, and theoretical computer science.

The programme objectives are to:

• Provide and promote sound practical and theoretical training in computer hardware, software and application areas that will make the students useful in private and public sectors of the economy.
• Identify the basic problems of the society and find appropriate computer solutions to them.
• Develop and offer service courses in computer science and information technology to other departments in the university.
• Equip the students with the capacity for professional practice in information technology. Develop the students for self-employment and job placements in the government and industry.
• Develop the students through sound academic and professional programmes as a basis, for postgraduate studies

ADMISSION REQUIREMENTS INTO COMPUTER SCIENCE PROGRAMME

1. Admission Through UTME

Five (O) Level credit passes in English Language, Mathematics, Physics and any two from Chemistry, Biology, Further Mathematics, Data processing, Computer Studies, Statistics, Geography and Economics.

UTME Subjects
A candidate must sit for English Language, Mathematics, Physics and any one of Chemistry/Biology/Geography/Economics.

2. Direct Entry Admission

1. Advanced Level passes in Mathematics and in at least two other subjects from Physics, Chemistry, Biology and Economics.
2. Candidates from Polytechnics and other related programmes MUST possess a minimum of upper credit at any level of the programme (i.e. ND, HND, NCE e.t.c) 

NOTE: Any combination of GCE ‘O’ Level Certificate, IJMB ‘O’ Level Certificate, Cambridge ‘O’ Level Certificate, NABTEB ‘O’ Level Certificate, NECO ‘O’ Level Certificate and any acceptable equivalent will be considered.

PROGRAMME DURATION

The duration for the BSc. Computer Science shall be four academics sessions for students that entered the university by UTME admission and three academic sessions for those by direct entry admission.