BENUE STATE UNIVERSITY

Welcome to Benue State University . The University has come a long way. From a student population of 306 and an academic staff strength of 149 at the inception of the University in 1992. Benue State University had a student enrolment of over nineteen thousand in 2006 and an academic staff strength of 429. The numbers have further grown since then.

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This tremendous increase in staff strength and student enrolment can be attributed to handwork and determination of staff and students, and the continuous financial support of the Benue State Government. Concomitantly, our academic programmes have also expanded over the years. We now have seven faculties and a College of Health Sciences. Altogether we have 22 Departments.
Our graduate programmes have also come a long way. From an initial nineteen programmes, we now have fifty graduate academic programmes spread across all the faculties.

The University’s achievements have received ovations all over the country. In 2004, the Vice Chancellor of the University was voted best Vice Chancellor of the Universities and in 2005, the University received Award for best Governing Council of State Universities.
Our graduates have continued to perform credibly well in and outside the country. Many are pursuing or have successfully completed postgraduate programmes within and outside the country.
Out IT Services have continued to expand with the introduction of on-line registration, other services and programmes. The facilities available are currently being upgraded through the provision of bigger bandwidth and other accessories.

Benue State University was established in 1992 as a response to a genuine need by the State Government to provide the essential impetus to economic, cultural, social and vocational development. Although there is a Federal University of Agriculture in Makurdi, the Benue State Government decided in favour of a conventional University partly for the reason that the Federal University of Agriculture is so specialized that courses offered are available only to a limited number of Benue indigenes. This has contributed to the hundreds of qualified candidates of Benue State origin being unable to gain admission into the University.
It is against this background that a 13- member steering committee for the proposed University was inaugurated by the Government of Benue State under the Executive leadership of His Excellency, Lt. Col. Fidelis Attahiru Makka on Thursday, 18th August 1991.

This Committee was charged, among other things, to seek and obtain formal approval for the establishment of a State University. The Committee completed its work on schedule.
The elected Government of Rev. Fr. Moses Adasu consequently approved the Report of the Committee. Following this approval the University took off with four Faculties for the 1992/1993 session, namely; Arts, Education Science and Social Sciences. Since then, two more faculties have been added. They are: Faculty of Management Sciences, Faculty of Law, and the College of Medical Sciences has also been established


The mission of the University was clearly defined in the stated objectives as contained in the Edit establishing the University thus:
-To encourage and promote advancement of knowledge and to hold out to all persons without discrimination of race, creed or political conviction, the opportunity of acquiring University education;
-To encourage the effective application of higher education to the needs of the State through research and extension and consultancy;
-To provide ready access for Benue State Citizens to higher education for self reliance;
-To promote, preserve and propagate the social and cultural heritage of the diverse people of the state and
-To engage in any other activities of a developmental University of the highest standard.
-The establishment of Benue State University, Makurdi on December 27th, 1991 was a culmination of decades of sustained efforts by successive administration, since the creation of the state in 1976, to address an educational in balance, the roots of which can be traced to as far back as the Colonial period.

Benue State was created in 1976 and by 1980 the Civilian Executive Governor of the State; Mr. Aper Aku has expressed the desire of his administration to establish a University. Professor Jibril Aminu was requested to conduct a feasibility studies for the proposed State University. In 1982, the Benue State University of Technology was established by the State Government with Professor Ochapa C. Onazi as its pioneer Vice Chancellor. This establishment prompted the then President, Federal Republic of Nigeria, Alhaji Shehu Shagari to announce the immediate take-over of the Benue State more of such Universities in other parts of Nigeria.
Tribute must be paid to Colonel Attahiru Makka, the Military Governor of Benue State from 1989 to 1992, during which the proposed Benue State University became a reality in 1991. the University is located in Makurdi, Benue State capital on a land area 180,494 hectares along Makurdi Gboko Road.
In 1992/93 academic sessions, admission of students into the six faculties was estimated at 700 to rise steadily to 2,100 in 1996/97 session. Today in addition to the existing six faculties, College of Health Sciences has been established and the University Teaching Hospital is under construction. For the breakdown shows that under graduate 12,070,Sandwich 1,579, Postgraduates 1,643, Sub-Degree 1,998, remedial Programmes: Science 720, Pre-VTE 480 and French 241.