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Covenant University: Portal, Courses, School Fees, Ranking and Admission 2020

Covenant University

In this article is information about Covenant University Portal login, Courses, School Fees, Ranking and Admission 2020.

Career Acada Team has gathered information regarding Covenant University. Please sit tight and enjoy.

Due to the pandemic coronavirus, most activities went into lockdown in the month of march, 2020. And Universities are not left out, both public and private Universities.

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Covenant University

Things are getting normalised all over the world, and my country Nigeria is not left out. As such, the federal government of Nigeria decided to reopen all Universities in the federation on the 14th of September, 2020.

Well, Public University will not resume because the body known as  Academic Staff  Union of University- ASUU is on strike.

This has left Students in Public Universities disheartened after the long anticipation of resuming. But Private university is not affected, so they are on track.

That has been a major reason for most parent preference for Private Universities.

Covenant University in Nigeria has been ranked top private university in Nigeria.

Covenant University popularly referred to as CU was officially established on the 12th of February, 2012. In that year, the federal government of Nigeria gave the license to Covenant University to operate as a private University after verification and inspection of the facility and academic programmes.

The establishment of Covenant University was a part of the Liberation Commission of the Church ( Living Faith Church of God) of Bishop David Oyedepo. Covenant university ethos is based on Christian mission.

University Deals

Its vision is to raise leaders for the African Continent. Leaders that are holistic in all ramification of human development.

Thus, the curriculum has been tailored to meet their vision and mission. It is also to help the educational system not in Nigeria but in Africa.

Primary School Deals

Covenant University is posed to be the pride of Africa and a university to reckon with in the world.

At such its core values of Covenant University are: spirituality, possibility mentality, capacity building, integrity, responsibility, diligence and sacrifices. Spirituality:

The instilling of the fear of God is the first core values of Covenant University.

This core value is linked to the vision of raising generational leaders in Africa. Having the fear of God leads to good leadership.

In fact, in the bible there are records of exceptional leaders, and they excel because of the fear of God.

In this part of the world, Africa continent is plagued with bad leaders or leadership. Resulting into many problems facing Africans.

Thus, Covenant University is set to inculcate the fear of God in young men and women to become great leaders that will turn the Africa continent to a better place.

Why Covenant University?

Possibility Mentality:

The mental state of a person is very important in shaping its future. What you think actually becomes a reality.

So in Covenant University aims to inculcate in their students royal dreams, dignity, attitude, habits  and character. In order to achieve the goal of becoming the next generation’s leaders.

Capacity Building:

To build the students to be able to deliver their tasks by equipping them with the necessary skills. Giving the students personal development, professional development and entrepreneur skills are essential in achieving their dreams or what is conceived mentally.

Integrity:

Integrity is an integral part of leadership. A good leader must lead by good example. Integrity is missing in our society, and it is important to bring it back to society. Covenant university mission is to teach that so future leaders will understand the importance of integrity. Which is needed urgently in Africa.

Responsibility:

Students in covenant university are taught the importance of doing what is right and at the right time. Living up to one’s responsibility requires huge discipline; which is taught in covenant universities to raise responsible students.

Diligence:

Covenant University believes in hard work. Its value is rooted in servant-leadership philosophy. A leader must be a hard worker firstly. So hard work, tireless work and creative work are encouraged.

Sacrifices

Sacrifices can not be devoid of hard work. There are no successful leaders without sacrifices. In Covenant University, students are raised to make sacrifices to achieve their dreams.

These core values help to define excellence and commitment.

The aboved core values with the vision and mission indicate a genuine and convincing reason to consider sending your children to  covenant university.

Hold on a little, there are more reasons to consider covenant university as a university for your children. These reasons includes:

  • High Education standard
  • Good, serene and learning friendly environment.
  • Discipline
  • Security
  • Fast Academic Calendar.

This fifth point is a quotient reason to consider covenant university.

There are no nationwide strikes that will drag the years from 4 years to 7 years.

Covenant University Notable Alumni

Again the products of covenant university is a great proof of the greatness of this university to send your children to the University.

These alumni are excelling in different aspects of life in Nigeria, doing well and raising the bar for  others.

Thus they are living up to the vision and mission of covenant university. Amongst them are Simi, a wonderful musician with great songs and lyrics.

She is also a sound engineer. Dolapo Loladee Adeleke, a film maker in Nigeria. Anthonia Adeniji Adenike, an associate professor of industrial relation and human resource management. Ishaya Bako, a film director and screenwriter. Bez, a multi instrumentalist, composer and musician. Ini Dima Okojie, an actress and style icon.

Others who are leading in the various sector of the economy are Nonso Amadi, a  musician with a unique genre  of music, Jennifer Uchendu, Nonso Bassey, Adebukola Oladipupo an actor, Ric Hassani a musician, chike a musician, Gbugbemi Fregene a chef, Bimbo Ademoye an actress and many others.

Covenant University Ranking

It does leave little doubt in mind why it has gotten many rankings and awards. Starting from the year 2013-2014, Covenant University was named the best private University in Nigeria  Webometrics a publication by Vanguard rank covenant university the best in Nigeria, 2015.

In 2016, the National Universities Commision named Covenant university the best private university in Nigeria.

It was ranked the best Nigerian University by Times Higher Education (THE) in 2018.

Even ranked among the 501+ globally in Business and Economics subjects. The Engineering courses were ranked in the 501-600 category.

In South Africa, Covenant University was listed among the excellence Universities to be honoured in South Africa by Africa Leadership Magazine in the year 2016.

Techcabal rated Covenant University as having the best software developers in Nigeria.

It was also ranked as one of the best five postgraduate schools in Nigeria by Nigeria bulletin.

An annual initiative by the federal government of Nigeria to provide scholarships abroad to Nigeria’s students known as Presidential Special Scholarship Scheme for Innovation and Development (PRESSID). Covenant University  got the highest number of students that scaled the examinations among other Nigerian universities. And the list goes on.

Covenant University offers undergraduate, post graduate programmes and even accepts international students. 

Covenant University Programmes

There are various courses available in Covenant University.

In Fact, there are unique programmes in place in the Covenant University. These programmes are geared towards achieving its vision and mission of covenant university.

These programmes are highlighted below:

Toward A Total Graduate ( TTG)

It is a course established in covenant university to meet the vision of raising leaders of tomorrow. The course known as Toward a Total Graduate is aimed at helping the graduates to be able to take the world after graduation, to be set to change the world, confront  the limitations in the to make the immediate environment and the society at large.

Centre For Wealth Creation

It is created to nurture students and staff business ideas into maturity. So there are laboratories for product development, clinics to incubate the business ideas to create wealth.

Entrepreneurial Development Studies

Entrepreneurial Development Studies is focused on inculcating the spirit of discipline of enterprise and entrepreneurship.

Total Man Concept (TMC)

Total Man Concept is based on holistic human development. It is aimed at developing the body, soul and spirit.

Colleges in Covenant University

Apart from this unique programme by Covenant University, there are other courses available like College of Business and Social Science (CBSS), College of Leadership Development Studies (CLDS) , College of Engineering (COE) and College of Science and Technology (CST).

Covenant University Admission 2020

For your admission into Covenant University go to their website at www.covenantuniversity.edu.ng.  The application for admission is very easy and simple. Everything is done  online.

Career Acada has gathered all the JAMB requirement and O’Level subject combination required for each of the courses.

1). Requirements for Accounting:

Accounting is a 4 years course for Degree in B.Sc. You are required to have not less than five credit passes in the following O’Level subjects:

  • Mathematics,
  • English Language
  • Economics
  • And any two (2) Commercial, Social science or Science Subjects.

2). Banking and Finance

Banking and Finance is a 4 years course for Degree in B.Sc.is a 4 years course for Degree in B.Sc. If you intend to study Banking and Finance, then you are required to have not less than five credit passes in the following O’Level subjects:

  • English Language
  • Mathematics
  • Economics
  • Any two (2) Commercial, Social science or Science Subjects.

3). Business Administration

Find below requirement to study Business Administration, you are required to have not less than five credit passes in the following O’Level subjects:

  • Mathematics
  • English Language
  • Economics
  • Any two (2) Commercial, Social science or Science Subjects.

4). Economics

Find below requirement to study Economics, you are required to have not less than five credit passes in the following O’Level subjects:

  • Economics
  • English Language
  • Mathematics
  • Any two (2) Commercial, Social science or Science Subjects.

5). Marketing

Find below requirement to study Marketing, you are required to have not less than five credit passes in the following O’Level subjects:

  • Mathematics
  • English Language
  • Economics
  • Commerce
  • Anyone (1) Commercial, Social science or Science Subjects.

6). Industrial Relation and Human Resource Management

Find below requirement to study Industrial Relation and Human Resource Management. You are required to have not less than five credit passes in the following O’Level subjects:

  • Mathematics
  • English Language
  • Economics
  • Any Two (2) Commercial, Social science or Science Subjects.

7). Mass Communication

B.Sc in Mass Communication duration is 4 years. If you intend to study Mass Communication (with option Journalism and Online Mass Communication and Broadcast), then you are required to have not less than five (5) credit passes in the following O’Level subjects:

  • English Language
  • Mathematics
  • Literature-in-English
  • CRS
  • Anyone (1) Commercial, Social science or Science Subjects.

8). Sociology

The duration to optain a B.Sc in Sociology is 4 years. If you intend to study Sociology, then you are required to have not less than five (5) credit passes in the following O’Level subjects:

  • Mathematics.
  • English Language.

3). And any three (3) Commercial, Social Science or Arts  Subjects in any of the following subjects;

  • History.
  • Economics.
  • Commerce.
  • Government.
  • Geography.
  • Mathematics.
  • Civic Education.
  • Literature-in-English.
  • Christian Religious Knowledge.

General O’Level Requirements

The general requirement for admission into CU (Covenant University) are 5 credit passes in your SSCE/GCE O’Level/NECO/NABTEB subjects or its equivalent in not more than 2 sittings.

The subjects must include Mathematics and Use of English Language.

Also, note that there are other requirements that may be needed for a particular college and/or a Department.

Covenant University School fees

For such high education standards, security, serene environment, learning friendly environment etc, the school fees are relatively fair.

Every department has its school fees amount. School fees are very important because as a private university, the school fees will be relatively expensive.

Below are few school fees rates for different departments and for students just starting in 2020.

  • Accounting N857,500
  • Banking and Finance N817,500
  • Demography and Social Statistic N817,500
  • Business Administration N817,500
  • Economic N817,500
  • Industrial Relation and Human Resources Management N817,500
  • International Relation N857,500
  • Political Science N857,500
  • English N857,500
  • Psychology/Counselling N857,500
  • Sociology N817,500
  • Mass Communication/Public Relation and Advert N857,500
  • Architecture N857,500
  • Biology N857,000
  • Estate Management N857,500
  • Industrial Chemistry N857,500
  • MIS N857,500
  • Building Technology N857,500
  • All Engineering Courses N882,500
  • Mathematics N865,500
  • Computer Science N857,500
  • Biochemistry N865,500
  • Industrial/Physics N865,500
  • Microbiology N865,500

These are some of the school fees for some department for new intake.

How to pay for Covenant University school fees

It is very simple and easy to pay the school fees and acceptance fees because everything is done online. And acceptance fees are inclusive in the school fees.

The procedure for payment includes: getting a notification slip which will include details of the school fees.

You just have to go to the portal www.covenantuniversity.edu.ng after getting to the bank to pay and generate a pin and receipt number using covenant university pin payment method.

At the bank, a pin number and receipt number will be given.

Then, you will input all necessary information after clicking on pay. If the information is  correct, click on proceed and click on print out receipt of payment.

This still  applies to admission applications. So easy and simple, remember everything is done online and there is nothing like giving someone money for that.

Covenant University Student Portal

Below is the list of links that lead to Covenant University Student Portal.

Covenant University Courses

  •  Accounting
  • Architecture.
  • Applied Biology and Biotechnology
  • Building Technology
  • Business Administration
  • Banking and Finance
  • Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
  • Civil Engineering
  • Computer Engineering
  • Chemical Engineering
  • Computer Science and Management Information System
  • Demography
  • Economics
  • English and French
  • Estate Management.
  • Electrical and Electronics Engineering.
  • International Relations.
  • Information & Communication Engineering

Industrial Chemistry with options in:

  • Analytical/Environmental Chemistry
  • Materials/Polymer Chemistry
  • Industrial Relations and Human Resource Management
  • Industrial Mathematics (with an option in Computer Science)
  • Industrial Mathematics (with an option in Statistics)

Industrial Physics with options in:

  • Applied Geophysics
  • Electronics and IT Applications
  • Renewable Energy
  • Mass Communication
  • Mechanical Engineering
  • Microbiology
  • Marketing and Entrepreneurship
  • Petroleum Engineering
  • Policy and Strategic Studies
  • Political Science
  • Psychology
  • Social Statistics.
  • Sociology

Covenant University School Address

The School is located at KM. 10 Idiroko Road, Canaan Land, Ota, Ogun State, Nigeria.

Covenant University Transcript

The privates universities are doing very well and they’ve made the process very simple and fast. Below is how to process the transcript;

  • The applicant writes an application to the Registrar or sends an e-mail to academicaffairs@covenantuniversity.edu.ng or call the Alumni official number: 07043618212 requesting for his/her transcript. ( or)
  • The applicant obtains and fills a form at the Registry indicating:
  1. Address of Institution to which transcript will be sent
  2. Matriculation number
  3. Programme/Sex/Class of Degree/Month and Year of graduation
  4. Attach a copy of evidence of payment of processing fee (receipt) to the form filled.

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5 COMMENTS

  1. Thank you too Esther.
    We will surely do that. That is our goal at careeracada, to provide information to answer your questions.

  2. Thank You for the information, please can you provide same information for post-graduate student. The courses, duration and the school fees.

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