The Executive Secretary, National Universities Commission, Abuja, has granted the request of the University of Ibadan to establish a Faculty of Economics and Management Sciences. The new Faculty will run the following degree programmes:
(i). Economics
(ii). Accounting
(iii). Banking and Finance
(iv). Marketing

Established some 61 years ago, the highly regarded Department of Economics at the University of Ibadan is easily one of the best of its type in Sub-Saharan Africa. The Department runs B.Sc, M.Sc and Ph.D programmes as well as the Master of Business Administration (now ceded to the UI School of Business) and the Master in Banking and Finance as approved by the Senate of the University

Since the early 1990s the Department has been host to the highly successful Collaborative Ph.D programme in Economics funded by the African Economic Research Consortium (AERC), based in Nairobi, Kenya.

More recently, the Department of Economics is also host to the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Centre of Excellence as part of which initiative there will be funded postgraduate programmes in Economics, Accounting, and Banking and Finance. The iconic CBN Complex and its Students’ Hostels are to be declared open soon by President Muhammadu Buhari, GCFR.

We salute the foresight, courage, hard work and determination of the founding fathers of our legacy Department of Economics and the entire Faculty, alumni/alumnae, students and friends of the Department for their immense contribution to the very high level of training, education, research and value-added service for which the Department is reputed.

Thank you and God bless.

Idowu Olayinka
Vice-Chancellor
University of Ibadan

Thursday, 19th March 2020