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Admission

Admission Details

Call for Applications: 2024/2025 Academic Session Admission into Masters and PhD Programs

The newly established Covenant Applied Informatics and Communication Africa Centre of Excellence (CApIC-ACE) domiciled at Covenant University under the World Bank funded African Centre of Excellence IMPACT project (ACE-IMPACT) invites suitably qualified and highly motivated applicants from Nigeria and West & Central Africa into its Masters and PhD degree programmes in Bioinformatics, Computer Science, Biochemistry, Microbiology, Industrial Chemistry and Information & Communication Engineering (ICE).

Sponsorship and intense 3 months English Language Training (for French speaking applicants) will be available for successful applicants.

CApIC-ACE was established based on the urgent need to build a critical mass of indigenous African scientists with the necessary bioinformatics, molecular biology, and information & communications engineering knowledge and skills to drive and sustain impactful researches in the areas of malaria, prostate and breast cancer as well as cloud & high performance computing as related to personalized medicine, in collaboration with academic, clinical and industrial institutions in Nigeria, West Africa, Africa, Germany, France, US and UK. Our collaborators have a track record of successful research, training, innovation and technology transfer.

CApIC-ACE is built on the existing infrastructure and personnel as well as externally-funded research projects for malaria and FEDGEN (NIH H3ABioNet, NIH WASLITBRe and German Science Foundation (aka DFG) being run by CUBRe) and cancer (CaPTC) at Covenant University. It hopes to evolve a Federated Genomic (FEDGEN) cloud infrastructure (with in-memory computing and cloud AI capabilities) customized to process and analyze indigenous genomic data to address African health issues including health education, medication efficiency and early disease diagnosis.

College of Engineering

Master programme requirements:

  • Bachelor’s degree with a minimum CGPA of 3.5 (second class upper) from any recognized University in Nigeria, West or Central Africa.

NOTE
that the minimum duration of this programme is full time of two academic sessions.

PhD programme requirements:

  • Bachelor’s and Master’s Degrees from any recognized University in Nigeria, West or Central Africa.
  • PhD candidates must have a minimum CGPA of 4.0 on a 5.0 scale or its equivalent in M.Sc./M.Eng/M.Tech and a minimum CGPA of 3.5 (second class upper) in the Bachelor’s degree.

NOTE
Candidates with professional Master’s degree are not eligible for the PhD programme. Minimum duration of PhD programme is full time of three academic sessions.



HOW TO APPLY

Start Date: February 11th, 2024.
LIFELINE: JUNE, I4TH, 2024
Interviews to hold between 17th-21st June, 2024


Application closed

International Students

Sponsorship and intense 3 months English Language Training (for French speaking applicants) will be available for successful applicants.

Residency

A student shall not stay more than one academic session above the minimum duration for the programme.

Ethics & Code of conduct

There is the need to institutionalize standards of conduct for the students in line with University’s core values and expectations

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The Security Unit at CU has been active and alive to its main responsibility of protecting lives and property since the inauguration of the University on October 21, 2002.


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