NUC scraps mass communication degrees

Tertiary institution applicants will no longer be able to apply to study Mass Communication after the Nigerian Universities Commission, NUC, announced the scrapping of the course.

According to NUC, the course will no longer be available for selection and in place of it, seven other options, a division of the course, will now be available.

The NUC said that the decision to separate the degree into seven programmes is an attempt to meet present demand and this will take effect from 2020 admissions into Nigerian universities.

In a chat with journalists in Abuja on Thursday, NUC’s Executive Secretary, Prof. Abubakar Rasheed, said Mass Communication has been unbundled into Media Studies, Public Relations Studies, Cinematography, among others.

The seven new Programmes/Departments, to be domiciled in a Faculty/ School/College of Communication and Media Studies are Journalism & Media Studies, Public Relations, Advertising, Broadcasting, Film & Multi-Media Studies, Development Communication Studies, Information & Media Studies.