By Ijeoma Agbafo
The National Universities Commission (NUC) has approved the unbundling of the Department of Mass Communication at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN), into five undergraduate degree programmes, effective from the 2026/2027 academic session.
The approval was conveyed in a circular dated June 19, 2026, according to a statement issued on Thursday in Nsukka by the university’s Acting Public Relations Officer, Mr Inya Egwu. The newly approved full-time programmes are B.Sc. Advertising, B.Sc. Broadcasting, B.Sc. Development Communication Studies, B.Sc. Journalism and Media Studies, and B.Sc. Public Relations.
The statement said the approval followed a comprehensive resource verification exercise by a panel of experts, who assessed the university’s human and material capacity to run the proposed programmes. It added that the approval applies only to full-time studies, while any proposal to introduce part-time or postgraduate programmes would require fresh approval from the commission.
The Head of the Department of Mass Communication, Michael Ukonu, expressed appreciation to the Vice-Chancellor and the Director of Academic Planning, Anthony Attama, for their support during the verification exercise. He said the unbundling would strengthen the university’s drive to maintain world-class academic standards and its transformational vision.
