CALABAR, CROSS RIVER— The management of the University of Calabar, Calabar (UNICAL) has actually protected full accreditation status from the National Universities Commission (NUC) for seven of its core academic programs.
The significant regulative triumph follows an intensive, multi-disciplinary accreditation evaluation workout conducted by the commission across the organization’s faculties between October and November 2025.
The effective examination was formally communicated to the university administration in a main letter signed by the Executive Secretary of the NUC, Prof. Abdullahi Yusufu Ribadu.
The full accreditation status assurances five successive years of undisturbed operational stability for the affected departments, safeguarding thousands of undergraduates versus future admission freezes, quota caps, and certificate invalidation.
Satisfactory Efficiency Across Diverse Faculties
According to the statutory audit report launched by the pinnacle regulative commission, the exercise was carried out at UNICAL in rigorous alignment with the federal government’s required to enforce minimum academic requirements across Nigerian universities.
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The final results reflected exemplary efficiency, high staffing compliance, and sufficient infrastructural schedule across all the assessed fields.
The effective departments cover 6 strategic professors, consisting of Farming, Basic Medical Sciences, Engineering and Technology, Law, Science, and the Social Sciences.
The 7 Totally Accredited Programmes:
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Law (Faculty of Law)
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Anatomy (Faculty of Basic Medical Sciences)
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Computer system Engineering (Faculty of Engineering and Innovation)
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Electrical and Electronic Devices Engineering (Faculty of Engineering and Innovation)
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Criminology and Security Researches (Faculty of Social Sciences)
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Forestry and Wildlife Management (Professors of Agriculture)
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Physics (Faculty of Science)
Five-Year Strategic Stability Guaranteed
The NUC clearly stated that the full accreditation status stands for a five-year window, applying comprehensively to both the undergraduate and postgraduate tiers of the qualified departments.
Throughout this five-year regulatory window, the impacted departments will continue to process brand-new student admissions without external interruptions and award degrees that are completely acknowledged across the country.
Crucially, the clearance guarantees that graduating trainees deal with no administrative hold-ups concerning their mandatory National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) mobilisation or expert body registrations.
Through its Director of Accreditation, Engr. Abraham Chundusu, the NUC, extended its greatest relates to and commendation to the Vice-Chancellor and the Governing Council of the University of Calabar for effectively satisfying national educational criteria.
University administrators kept in mind that the tidy costs of health offers UNICAL with a strategic window to consolidate its institutional gains.
The school plans to use this period of stability to strongly upgrade its specialised engineering laboratories, broaden research study financing, and boost its digital knowing infrastructure without the tension associated with an interim or rejected accreditation status.
The effective outcome even more reinforces UNICAL’s placing as a premier destination for qualitative tertiary education in the South-South geopolitical zone, proving its capacity to finish professionals who are all set to contend in the global understanding economy.