The National Universities Commission (NUC) has given approval for the Federal University Dutse (FUD) to run academic programmes in Medicine and Surgery, and 18 other programmes in College of Medicine and five faculties of the University.
The approval was contained in a letter dated April 14, 2022 addressed to the Vice-Chancellor and signed by the Executive Secretary, NUC, through the commission’s Director of Accreditation stating that the full accreditation is valid for the next five years.
The accreditation was coming after the inspection and validation of manpower resources and facilities available for training of highly skilled graduates in respective disciplines.
The full accredited programmes by the NUC include;
Medicine and Surgery
Anatomy
Physiology
Agriculture
Accounting
Actuarial Science
Banking and Finance
Business Administration
Taxation
Linguistics (Arabic)
Linguistics (English)
Biochemistry
Biology
Environmental Management and Toxicology
Mathematics
Microbiology
Economics
Information Technology
Software Engineering
The Vice- Chancellor, Professor Abdulkarim Sabo Mohammed expressed his gratitude to the staff and students of the university for the great achievement.
He said the university will not rest on its oars in maintaining the standards and quality of its programmes.
According to him accreditation of the medical program is no small achievement for the university adding that it is a wake call for staff and students to double their effort in ensuring that the MBBS programme of the university is among the best in the country.
The VC thanked the Academic Planning Directorate for working round the clock to make the accreditation exercise a huge success.