Business administration refers to the management and operation of business organizations and encompasses a wide range of activities and responsibilities aimed at achieving business goals and objectives efficiently and effectively.
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The programme was set up fundamentally to ensure that our students acquire profound theoretical and practical knowledge. This facilitates self-reliance, competence, excellence and high integrity. To this end, emphasis is on continuous articulation and provision of sound relevant broad knowledge about organizations and management in a dynamic environment and to educate and train would be managers by ensuring that they are equipped with requisite skills, knowledge and abilities that would enable them compete favorably and contribute efficiently in any organization they may find themselves.
Thus, Business Administration and Management department strives to produce efficient managers that will contribute quality management to organizational development and growth. By ensuring that their skills are galvanized in utilizing various resources available within and outside the organizations. The acquired skills will enable students of management to identify and define problems, take appropriate decisions using various management tools, design management strategies and conduct structural analysis on any aspect of business. Finally, the department aims to prepare students for self-employment and careers in business and general management. The above objectives which are not fixed are revisited whenever there is need to meet with dynamism of the environment. Based on these objectives the academic contents of this programme is designed.
Job opportunities in BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION AND MANAGEMENT
Business management majors study topics such as general business
principles, financial analysis, data analytics, organizational
effectiveness, and strategic planning. The field offers jobs in
finance, banking, and business administration, including positions
at the executive and C-suite levels. Their duties also include
hiring staff members, leading department meetings and
communicating with upper-management to implement new policies and
procedures among daily operations. Some jobs you can do as a
business administration graduate include:
- Actuarial analyst
- Arbitrator
- Business adviser
- Business analyst
- Business development manager
- Chartered management accountant
- Corporate investment banker
- Data analyst
- Data scientist
- Forensic accountant
- Insurance underwriter
- Management consultant
- Project manager
- Risk manager
Course Requirements
To embark on the journey toward a National Diploma in Business administration and management, prospective students typically need to fulfill certain prerequisites. These include:
- Entry Requirements:
At least five relevant passes at credit level in the West African Examination Council (WAEC), General Certificate of Education (GCE), Senior Secondary School Certificate (SSCE) or National Examinations Council (NECO) 'O' Levels or their equivalent including English Language and Mathematics (Literature-in-English and Oral English are not acceptable in place of English Lnguage), and any other three subjects from Economics, Business Studies/Methods, Financial Accounting/Principles of Accounts/Book Keeping, Literature-in-English, Commerce, History, Government, Statistics, Geography, Civil Education, Agricultural Science/Biology, obtained at not more than two sitting.
- NBTE recognized pre-National Diploma Education:
Credit passes in an NBTE recognised preliminary ND course offered in a Polytechnics or similar post-secondary technical institution (as stated in the NBTE brochure).
- JAMB UTME: Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board Unified Tertiary
Matriculation Examination (JAMB UTME) scores will be used as
part of the selection process for (FULL-TIME) candidates (as stated in the UTME brochure).