The National Universities Commission (NUC) has approved the accreditation of 21 academic courses for the University as well as all courses offered at the seven Colleges of Education and Polytechnics affiliated to the University.

In addition, all the nine Courses offered at the World Bank supported project of the University, the Sustainable, Procurement, Environmental and Social Standard Enhancement Projects - Center of Excellence. (SPESSE-CE) were equally accredited fully. 

Similarly, the Commission approves the establishment of three additional Faculties in the University which are the Faculty of Computing, the Faculty of Dentistry and the Faculty of Allied Health Sciences. These three Faculties will run a total of 56 different departments.

This information was disclosed by the Acting Vice-Chancellor of the University, Professor Sani Usman Kunya. He said the approvals came at a time when ATBU was ever poised to achieve excellence in all academic pursuits.

Professor Kunya said that the University sought for the accreditation of 25 courses from the NUC, got 21 of the courses fully accredited and three of them got an interim accreditation while one course (Urban and Regional Planning) was denied accreditation. 

"We are at this point in time exerting our total commitment to ensure that all the unfortunate problems facing the department of Urban and Regional Planning are fully addressed", the Ag Vice Chancellor assured.

He said that the University has already put all measures on ground for the successful take-off of the new Faculties and Departments.

It will be recalled that the University's Faculty of Veterinary Medicine has successfully taken-off this Academic Session.