Lagos State University Establishes 19 New Departments

The Lagos State University under the leadership of Prof Ibiyemi Olatunji Bello, the Vice Chancellor of the institution, has approved 19 new departments to the number of the existing ones in the institution.

Prof Ibiyemi, during her appointment as the Vice Chancellor in September, 2021, had promised to create more faculties and departments to bring the University to the limelight.

In her words, “We will create the Faculties of Pharmacy, Environmental Sciences, and Allied Health Sciences for programmes such as Physiotherapy, Medical Laboratory Science, Building, Architecture, Radiology and Radiation Science, among others”.

“Also, the existing Nursing Sciences department will also be moved to the appropriate faculty unlike what currently plays out.”

“We will also create Radiotherapy and Radiation Sciences to meet the demands of the new world. And under Environment Sciences, we are going to have departments such as Building, Architecture, Quantity Survey, Urban and Regional Planning, Fine and Applied Arts, among others.”

Below is the full list of the newly approved programmes.

1. CLINICAL AND PHARMACY ADMINISTRATION
2. ALLIED HEALTH SCIENCES
3. PHYSIOTHERAPY
4. MEDICAL LABORATORY
5. RADIOGRAPHY AND RADIATION SCIENCE
6. ARCHITECTURE
7. BUILDING
8. QUANTITY SURVEYING
9. GEO-INFORMATIC AND SURVEYING
10. ESTATE MANAGEMENT
11. URBAN AND REGIONAL
PLANNING
12. LINGUISTICS
13. MANAGEMENT SCIENCE
14. TAXATION
15. SPECIAL EDUCATION
16. SCIENCE LABORATORY TECHNOLOGY
17. CIVIL ENGINEERING
18. INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING
19. LOCAL GOVERNMENT DEVELOPMENT AND ADMINISTRATIVE STUDIES.