FACULTY OF ADMINISTRATION, MANAGEMENT AND SOCIAL SCIENCES

 

B.Sc. Business Information Technology

Overview

In today’s business world, technology-driven businesses, intense competition and global markets demand that the most recent innovations move quickly to worldwide use. Good corporate leadership depends on the imaginative integration of existing and emerging technologies. Moreover, in an economy dominated by growing reliance on Information Technology, nearly every business, from finance to insurance to utilities, has been transformed in to a technology-driven one. Engineering executives, IT leaders, scientists and managers in all disciplines are being called on to work harder, faster and smarter to integrate multiple technologies and to manage multidisciplinary teams. Managers are now facing the challenge of how to align business strategy with Information Technologies and management decisions in a high-speed, high-cost, high-risk environment.

 

The programme is four-year undergraduate degree intended to bridge the gap between IT and Business to drive innovation and growth in the modern organisations. Hence, it shall provide training and expertise skills in Information & Communication Technology application to Business Management, Accounting, Banking, Finance and General Administration disciplines in both private and public organizations. In so doing, students shall be exposed to the concepts, theories and practical elements of management of business and information technologies.

 

It is also designed to strengthen and broaden the education, research and professional managerial skills of the students in order to prepare them to take up the challenges facing the modern-day managers operating in the globalised, digitalized and technology-driven economies of the world. It is the vision of the programme to graduate students with a combination of knowledge and practical skills guided by ethical and professional standards that would propel them forward in the career they may be pursuing.

 

Philosophy

The general philosophy of undergraduate training in Business Information Technology programme is to provide the students with quality education and training that will develop the mind, impart both theoretical and practical knowledge on the individual student, develop self-confidence, and help to be innovative and self-reliant in the field of Business Information Technology. The training shall be rooted in an interactive pedagogical methodology developed to produce graduates that would strive to be upright and patriotic.  It adopts a systems viewpoint of interconnectivity and interdisciplinarity, to offer an in-depth knowledge of business concepts and how to use IT to serve business needs.

 

Objectives

The major objectives of a bachelor’s degree programme in Business Information Technology are to:

  1. provide high quality knowledge and skills for the understanding and analysis of business and organizational challenges using modern day digital techniques and technologies in the field of information and communication;
  2. the course is designed to equip candidates with talents to be able to collect, interpret, analyse and present data for corporate decision-making using ICT;
  3. ensure candidates are able to apply skills acquired in finding solutions to business, administration and management challenges; and
  4. provide students with skills and talents for organizing, teach and conduct research in the general areas of administration and management through the use of Information Technologies.
  5. train the students on the skills of utilizing composite modern management methods and techniques in planning in both the private and public sectors of the economy.
  6. develop sense of consideration for ethical principles required for practical application of business information technologies in the industries of the economy.

 

Unique features of the programme

The programme has the unique features of:

  1. being innately multidisciplinary, and the contributing areas of knowledge; which include business management, economics, entrepreneurship, computer science, MIS, organizational behaviour, technology, innovation and engineering management, etc. Without necessarily becoming a core programmer or engineer;
  2. the general business skills, the graduates shall demonstrate specific skills of database applications in processes such as e-business, digital marketing, e-governance, business analytics, business data and cyber security, project management, software development process, systems analysis, and more; and
  3. the degree shall ultimately provide them with promising career opportunities in the ever-growing global digital business arena.

 

Employability skills

The default patronage of the standard software development and computer programming laboratories, as well as dedicated facilities for systems analysis, database design and development, digital, marketing, e-commerce, cyber security and business intelligence shall make the graduates of this programme to demonstrate the skills of creativity and experience needed to succeed and shall be highly sought-after by organizations.

Hence, at the end of the course, student should be able to demonstrate the following employability skills:

  1. leadership qualities manifested through self-assurance and confidence to effectively handle employers, supervisors, and co-workers;
  2. motivation and initiative;
  3. reliability and dependability;
  4. setting priorities to be able to handle long and short-term goals;
  5. good communication;
  6. accommodating and spirit for team work;
  7. resilience, adaptability and cooperative;
  8. decisive to be able to not only deal with tasks but also work stress;
  9. emotional control and Patience;
  10. skills in E-Commerce, Digital Analysis;
  11. ability to process large volume of information; and
  12. be able reduce complexity into a sequence of data.

 

21st Century skills

The programme would lead to the development/acquisition of the following 21st century skills by the students: 1. critical thinking;

  1. communication skills;
  2. creativity;
  3. problem solving;
  4. perseverance;
  5. collaboration;
  6. information literacy;
  7. technology skills and digital literacy;
  8. media literacy;
  9. global awareness; and 11. self-direction.

 

Admission and Graduation Requirements

 

Admission Requirements 

For admission into any of the first-degree programmes of the University, a candidate shall be required to possess the following minimum qualifications:

 

  1. UTME: 4-Year Degree Programme

In addition to UTME requirements, the prospective candidate for a 4-year degree programme is expected to have obtained credit passes in five Senior Secondary Certificate (SSC) subjects or its equivalent including English Language and Mathematics, two (2) subjects from Geography, Chemistry, Agric Science, Food and Nutrition, Physics and Biology and any one (1) subject from Economics, Business Methods, Commerce, Accounting, Book-keeping, Government and Home Economics at not more than two sittings.

  1. Direct Entry: 3-Year Degree Programme
    1. Candidates must have 5 ‘O’ level passes at Credit level in the following subjects: Mathematics, English, Geography, Physics, Biology, Chemistry, Additional Mathematics, and any one (1) commercial subject in addition to two ‘A’ level papers passed at a minimum of Credit level at IJMB, ‘A’ level or its equivalent.
    2. Candidates with National Diploma (ND) and Higher National Diploma (HND) in Business Information Systems, Management Information System, Computer Science and Information and Communications Technology with a minimum of lower credit pass are eligible for admission.

 

Duration of the Programme and Graduation Requirements

  1. The full-time Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) degree programme in Business Information Technology runs normally for 8 semesters for UTME candidates and 6 semesters for direct entry candidates. However, a student who fails to graduate within the normal number of semesters will not be allowed to exceed a total of 12 semesters in the case of UTME candidates and 9 semesters for direct entry students.
  2. To be eligible for the award of B.Sc. degree in Business Information Technology, a student must have passed all core courses as well as University and faculty required courses and must be of good character. For those admitted through direct entry may be required to take compulsory general GST courses which they did not take at their diploma level.

In addition to the above, the student must undergo and pass six months internship programme and submit a graded project report based on a suitable title approved by the department.

Department

  1. Business Information Technology
  2. Hospitality and Tourism Management
  3. Logistics and Supply Chain Management
  4. Procurement Management
  5. Project Management
  6. Social Standards