Olushola Omogbehin
The National Universities Commission has given full accreditation to 34 academic programmes in four different faculties at the newly founded Federal University of Technology and Environmental Sciences, Iyin Ekiti.
Revealing this in a statement at Iyin Ekiti on Thursday, the Registrar of the school, Mr Oluwole Dada, said the accreditation had paved the way for the official commencement of academic activities for the 2025/2026 Academic session in the institution.
This according to the Registrar followed a week-long facility verification exercise carried out by four NUC teams that inspected the university’s laboratories, classrooms, lecture halls, offices, hostels, library, clinic, toilets, staff buses and teaching equipment, including Hitachi boards.
In his words, “The exercise was aimed at ascertaining the institution’s preparedness and its capacity to deliver world-class training in science, engineering and technology, computing and information technology and environmental sciences”.
The programmes accredited by NUC for the Faculty of Engineering and Technology included Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Mining Engineering, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Computer Engineering, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, and Mechatronics Engineering.
Courses that received accreditation from Faculty of Science are Biochemistry, Biology, Mathematics, Forensic Science, Geology, Chemistry, Microbiology, Physics, Statistics, Animal and Environmental Biology, Biotechnology, Science Laboratory Technology, and Environmental Management and Toxicology.
From the Faculty of Environmental Sciences include Architecture, Building Technology, Estate Management and Valuation, Environmental Management, Industrial Design, Quantity Surveying, Surveying and Geoinformatics, and Urban and Regional Planning while from Faculty of Computing and Information Technology as Software Engineering, Computer Science, Cyber Security, Data Science, and Information Communication and Technology.
The Vice Chancellor, Prof. Gbenga Aribisala, who expressed joy at the successful verification, encouraged prospective candidates to change their preferred institution to FUTES on the JAMB portal, assuring that admission would strictly be based on merit.
“We are here for academic excellence and that is the standard we want to set from the onset. Students who performed well in JAMB, WAEC, NECO or NABTEB will be admitted purely on merit, without fear or favour,” he said.
Speaking further, he admonished parents and guardians not to patronise admission agents, saying, “We want to make it clear to members of the public that the university has no agent for admissions or payments of any kind. Our website is open to everyone to access accurate information.”
President Bola Tinubu had on February 20, 2025, assented to two separate bills that established FUTES in Iyin Ekiti and Federal University of Agriculture and Development Studies, Iragbiji, Osun State.
