About Us

History

The Department of Business Administration started in the 1982/83 academic year with 4 academic staff, 4 administrative staff, and a student population of 140 [comprising 65 200-level students and 75 100-level students] out of the Academic staff, only the [acting] Head of Department had a Ph.D. degree; the remaining three were either Assistant Lecturer or Graduate Assistant.

From this humble beginning, the Department grew rapidly to the extent that the 1984/85 session, the population of academic staff had increased to 9, and the Department was, in addition to its B.Sc. Degree Programme, cooperating with other relevant Departments in the Faculty of Business and Social Sciences, to run the MBA [Masters in Business Administration] programme. By 1986/87 with 9 academic staff [including one Professor, one Senior Lecturer, two Lecturer 1 and two Lecturer 11], the Department started its postgraduate programmes M.Sc./Ph.D. in Management Science.