Covenant University Postgraduate Courses

Covenant university is a faith based and private university with a clear-cut technology and modern teaching facility and research. You may be interested in applying for postgraduate degrees in the school, here is the approved list of Covenant University postgraduate courses, although, there is tendencies for more additions in years to come.

COLLEGE OF BUSINESS & SOCIAL SCIENCES

DEPARTMENT OF ACCOUNTING

Programme: Accounting

Degree in View: M.Sc

Areas of Specialization

1. Public Sector Accounting
2. Environmental Accounting
3. Management Accounting
4. Oil and Gas Accounting
5. Taxation
6. Financial Reporting
7. Auditing
8. International Accounting
9. Management Information Systems
10. Corporate Governance

DEPARTMENT OF BANKING & FINANCE

Programme: Finance

Degree in View: M.Sc., M.Sc./ACIB (Weekend), M.Phil., Ph.D.

Areas of Specialization: PhD in

1. International Finance
2. Corporate Finance
3. Financial Development
4. Banking Operations
5. Public Sector Finance

DEPARTMENT OF BUSINESS MANAGEMENT

Programme: Business Administration

Degree in View: MBA, M.Sc, M.Phil, Ph.D

Areas of Specialization:

1. Operations Management
2. International Management
3. International Business
4. Organizational Politics/Corporate Governance
5. Management
6. Organizational Behavior
7. Strategic Management

Programme: Industrial Relations & Human Resource Management

Degree in View: M.Sc., MBA, M.Phil., Ph.D.

Areas of Specialization:

1. Marketing Information Systems/Research
2. Consumer Behavior
3. International Marketing
4. Logistics/Distribution Management
5. Digital/Contemporary Marketing
6. Political Marketing
7. Product/Brand Management
8. Service Marketing

Programme: Marketing

Degree in View: M.Sc, MBA, M.Phil, Ph.D

Areas of Specialization:

1. Strategic HRM
2. International HRM
3. Recruitment/Selection
4. Conflict Management
5. Compensation Management
6. Performance Management
7. Human Resource Development
8. Employee Relations
9. E-HRM
10. Human Resource Information System

DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS & DEVELOPMENT STUDIES

Programme: Economics

Degree in View:  M.Sc, M.Phil, Ph.D

Areas of Specialization

1. Development Economics
2. Dynamic Macroeconomics
3. Environmental Economics
4. Health and Labour Economics
5. Institutional Economics
6. International Economics
7. Land and Agricultural Economics
8. Microeconomics and Informal Sector Economy
9. Monetary and Financial Economics
10. Resource and Energy Economics

Programme: Demography and Social Statistics

Degree in View: M.Sc, M.Phil, Ph.D

Areas of Specialization

1. Demographic Analysis
2. Social Statistics
3. Population and Development
4. Family Planning and Reproductive Health
5. Maternal, Child and Adolescent Health
6. Men’s Reproductive Health
7. Gender and Sexual Health
8. Fertility and Mortality Studies
9. Ageing
10. Social Marketing and Development
11. Migration and Internally Displayed Persons
12. Epidemiology of Communicable and Non-Communicable Diseases
13. Programmes Monitoring and Evaluation

DEPARTMENT MASS COMMUNICATION

Programme: Mass Communication

Degree in View: M.Sc., M.Phil., Ph.D.

Areas of Specialization: M.Sc.

1. Advertising and Marketing Communication
2. Broadcast (Radio, Television and Film)
3. Print/Online Journalism (Newspaper and Magazine)
4. Public Relations/Public Affairs

Areas of Specialization: M.Phil, Ph.D

1. Journalism
2. Media, Communication and Cultural Studies

DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY

Programme: Sociology

Degree in View: M.Sc, M.Phil, Ph.D

Areas of Specialization

1. Gender and Development Studies
2. Population Studies
3. Family and Reproductive Health
4. Industrial Sociology
5. Political Sociology
6. Rural Sociology
7. Cultural Studies
8. Medical Sociology
9. Sociology of Development
10. Sociology of Entrepreneurship
11. Political Sociology
12. Gerontology
13. Urban Sociology
14. Criminology and Security Studies
15. Sociology of Education
16. Sociology and Media Studies
17. Military Sociology
18. Social Problems

COLLEGE OF LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT STUDIES

DEPARTMENT OF PSYCHOLOGY

Programme: Counselling

Degree in View: M.A, Ph.D

Areas of Specialization

1. Career Counselling
2. Family and Marital Counselling
3. School Counselling

Programme: Psychology

Degree in View: M.Sc, Ph.D

Areas of Specialization

1. Counselling Psychology
2. Clinical Psychology
3. Organizational Psychology

DEPARTMENT OF POLITICAL SCIENCE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

Programme: International Relations

Degree in View: M.Sc, M.Phil, Ph.D

Programme: Political Science

Degree in View: M.Sc, M.Phil, Ph.D

Programme: Policy & Strategic Studies

Degree in View: M.Sc, M.Phil, Ph.D

Programme: Public Administration

Degree in View: M.Sc, MPA, M.Phil, Ph.D, MPA:

Areas of Specialization

1. Public Policy and Administration
2. Personnel Management

DEPARTMENT OF LANGUAGES

Programme: English

Degree in View: M.A, Ph.D

Areas of Specialization

1. Language
2. Literature

COLLEGE OF SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

DEPARTMENT OF ARCHITECTURE

Programme: Architecture

Degree in View: M.Sc

DEPARTMENT OF BIOCHEMISTRY

Programme: Biochemistry

Degree in View: M.Sc, M.Phil, Ph.D

Areas of Specialization

1. Enzymology
2. Food and Nutritional Biochemistry
3. Pharmacology and Medicinal Plant Research
4. Industrial Biochemistry
5. Clinical Biochemistry
6. Environmental and Toxicological Biochemistry
7. Molecular Oncology and Cancer Research
8. Molecular Biology

DEPARTMENT OF BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Programme: Biology (Applied Biology & Biotechnology)

Degree in View: M.Sc., MPhil., Ph.D.

Areas of Specialization:

1. Biotechnology and Bioinformatics (M.Sc Only)
2. Plant Molecular Biology and Genetics
3. Plant Physiology and Biotechnology
4. Plant Genetic Diversity and Conservation
5. Molecular Systemics and Cytogenetics
6. Ecotoxicology and Environmental Biology
7. Fisheries and Hydrobiology
8. Conservation Biology and Spatial Ecology

Programme: Microbiology

Degree in View: M.Sc., MPhil., Ph.D.

Areas of Specialization

1. Environmental Microbiology and Biotechnology.
2. Food Microbiology and Biotechnology
3. Industrial Microbiology and Biotechnology
4. Medical Microbiology/ Medical Parasitology
5. Virology
6. Immunology

DEPARTMENT OF BUILDING TECHNOLOGY

Programme: Building Technology

Degree in View: M.Sc, M.Phil, Ph.D

Areas of Specialization

1. Construction Management
2. Building Services
3. Maintenance Management
4. Facility Management
5. Building structure

 DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY

Programme: Industrial Chemistry

Degree in View: M.Sc, M.Phil, Ph.D

DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER & INFORMATION SCIENCES

Programme: Computer Science

Degree in View: M.Sc, M.Phil, Ph.D

Areas of Specialization

1. Software Engineering
2. Artificial Intelligence
3. Bioinformatics
4. Mobile Computing
5. Data Mining
6. Cybercrime Security/Digital Forensic
7. Machine Learning
8. Networking

Programme: Management Information System (MIS)

Degree in View: M.Sc, M.Phil, Ph.D

Areas of Specialization

1. Software Engineering
2. Artificial Intelligence
3. Information System
4. E-Commerce Research
5. Mobile Computing
6. Cybercrime Security/Digital Forensic
7. Big data Analytics
8. Health Informatics
9. Data Communication
10. Data Communication/Network

DEPARTMENT OF MANAGEMENT ESTATE

Programme: Estate Management

Degree in View: M.Sc, M.Phil, Ph.D

DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS

Programme: Industrial Mathematics

Degree in View: M.Sc, M.Phil, Ph.D

Areas of Specialization

1. Numerical Methods/Analysis
2. Optimization
3. Differential equations
4. Financial
5. Functional Analysis
6. Operations Research
7. Mathematical Statistics
8. Fluid Mechanics

DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS

Programme: Industrial Physics

Degree in View: M.Sc, M.Phil, Ph.D

Areas of Specialization

1. Atmospheric & Communication Physics
2. Renewable Energy and Material Physics
3. Radiation and Health Physics
4. Applied Geophysics

COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING

DEPARTMENT OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING

Programme: Chemical Engineering

Degree in View: M.eng, M.Phil., Ph.D.

Areas of Specialization

1. Energy and Renewable Energy
2. Catalysis and Chemical Reaction Engineering
3. Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics
4. Transport and Separation Process

DEPARTMENT OF CIVIL ENGINEERING

Programme: Civil Engineering

Degree in View: M.Eng, M.Phil, Ph.D

Areas of Specialization:

1. Water Resources and Environmental Engineering
2. Structural and Materials Engineering
3. Geo-Technical Engineering
4. Highway and Transportation Engineering

DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRICAL & INFORMATION ENGINEERING

Programme: Computer Engineering

Degree in View: M.Eng, M.Phil, Ph.D

Area of Specialization

1. Cyber Security
2. Biometrics
3. Machine Intelligence

Programme: Electrical & Electronics Engineering

Degree in View: M.Eng, M.Phil, Ph.D

Areas of Specialization

1. Power & Machines
2. Renewable Energy

Programme: Information & Communication Engineering

Degree in View: M.Eng, M.Phil, Ph.D

Areas of Specialization

1. Satellite Communication
2. Wireless Communications
3. IOT & Embedded Systems
4. Cyber Security

DEPARTMENT OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERING

Programme: Mechanical Engineering

Degree in View: M.Eng, M.Phil, Ph.D

Areas of Specialization

1. Machine Design and Production Technology
2. Thermo fluid/ Energy System
3. Materials/ Metallurgical Engineering
4. Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering
5. Mechatronics Engineering

DEPARTMENT OF PETROLEUM ENGINEERING

Programme: Petroleum Engineering

Degree in View: M.Eng, M.Phil, Ph.D

Areas of Specialization: M.Eng

1. Reservoir Engineering
2. Petroleum Production Engineering
3. Petroleum Economics
4. Drilling Engineering

Areas of Specialization: Ph.D

1. Reservoir Engineering
2. Petroleum Production Engineering