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The department started in 1973 as one of the two component units of the former Department of Economics and Business Studies, which offered courses leading mainly to a combined honours degree in Economics and Business. Following the splitting up of the Department in October 1977 into Economic and Business Studies Departments, it became possible to offer a single honour degree course in Business Administration to a selected number of students. The department’s programme was then reviewed to provide for specialization in Accounting. The emphasis on specialization is in line with the increasing need for management personnel in all sectors (commerce, industries government, education and research) to prosecute and accelerate national economic development.
The department was renamed Department of Business Administration in 1979.
The major objectives of the Department are:- to help generate adequate managerial manpower with appropriate knowledge, skill and attitudes to handle the growing and changing managerial responsibilities in Nigeria.
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- To facilitate the creation of entrepreneurial spirit in young-men and women who can help to exploit the available resources and opportunities in Nigeria.
- To provide for preparation of managerial teachers and researchers to keep pace with the ever rising demand for management education.
- To facilitate the education and training of managers at undergraduate, postgraduate, post experience and professional levels.
- To help produce teaching materials and literature more appropriate to the Nigerian environment through research and cross fertilization of ideas in the classroom.
The Department has competent teaching faculty equipped to teach, guide and supervise courses and projects in Finance, Marketing, Organizational Behaviour, and Quantitative Techniques. The departments of Accounting, Economic as well as the Faculty of Law assist in teaching courses in production management. Opportunity is also taken to utilize the services of competent people in business, industry and government in and around Benin City as guest faculty.
The Department has an arrangement with the Computer Centre whereby students offering Data Processing and Information System are enabled to obtain practical demonstrations in elementary programming and computer processing.
Every year the department attempts to place students in business organizations in order to give them practical exposure in management.
Apart from being eligible to become members of the University of Benin Students’ Union, students of the department are expected to belong to the University of Benin Business Students’ Association (UBBSA) and they can join the University of Benin Chapter of the International Association of Students in Economics and Management (AIESEC). The latter organization is involved in promoting the study and application of modern economics and management techniques, as well as in organizing industrial attachment programmes on both national and international exchange basis. AIESEC has its own Journal, “The Manager” which is published at least once a year.
All courses are weighted 3 credits each. Every student is required to take a minimum workload of 15 units and a maximum of 25 units per semester. Optional courses are normally selected from within or outside the Department with the approval of the Department.
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Agbadudu A.B.
BSc Maths (Lagos), MBA (NYU)
MSc, PhD (North-western) |
Head of Department and
Professor Quantitative methods, Operations
Research & Managerial Economics. |
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