10th Anniversary Goodwill Messages 44

FACULTY OF MANAGEMENT AND SOCIAL SCIENCES - STRENGTH IN NUMBERS - Osita AGBU*

Introduction he Faculty of Management and Social Sciences (FMSS) is the largest faculty at Baze TUniversity; it has more than 40% of the total number of staff and students and there are eight Departments listed as follows: · Accounting, Banking and Finance · Business Management and Marketing · Economics · International Relations and Diplomacy · Mass Communication · Political Science and Public Administration · Psychology · Sociology and Anthropology

The faculty imparts functional and problem-solving skills relevant to the African social and economic realities and the global community, on students. The focus is to provide students with knowledge tools in management, and socio-political economy, to make them better understand human behaviour and cultural realities of the past, present and the future. The faculty runs programmes at the undergraduate and post graduate Levels.

The B. Sc. Programmes of the Faculty

These are semester degree programmes with courses structured into eight or four levels (Trimesters 1 to 8 or 100, 200, 300 & 400 levels). Majority of students (about 95% or more) are admitted into the 100 level after obtaining their 'O' level entry qualifications and the JAMB Examination. Some are admitted into the 200 level through JAMB (or 'A' Level qualifications) examination. Whichever way, they are admitted, they are required to all credit requirements in order to graduate from the programmes. Degrees are awarded to successful students in learning and character.

Post-Graduate Programmes of the Faculty

The Faculty offers Post graduate and Masters Programmes in the following fields: M.Sc Accounting, M.Sc Business Management, Master of Business Administration (MBA), M.Sc Economics, Masters in International Relations and Diplomacy, M.Sc Security, Leadership and Society; and M.Sc Sociology. As soon as the approval of the National Universities Commission (NUC) is received, it will commence MSc in Psychology, and PhDs in International Relations and Business Management

Innovation, Technology and Partnerships

The faculty leverages on knowledge, innovation, technology and entrepreneurship as the hallmark of positive development for all students. It goes the extra mile to provide students with rich experiences about their courses of study. For example, digital transformation tools have been adopted for Accounting and Finance, and Computer applications in other Management and Social Sciences have been acquired to guide teaching and learning for the overall benefit of the students. Some of these tools include Oracle, Cisco, Cyberoam, Huawei, Petex, Quick Book, IBM, and Peachtree. We also teach our students analytical tools such as E-Views, Stata, Structural Equation Modelling (SEM), and Militap and Mat lab.