Barely four weeks after it was granted operational licence by the Federal Government, SAM MARIS University, Supare Akoko, Ondo State, has commenced admission process for the 2023/2024 academic session.
Sam Maris and 36 other private universities were on May 15 approved and granted operational licences by the Federal Government to commence academic operations.
Its chairman and chief promoter, Mr Sam T. Ologunorisa, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, said the university, which would run in four phases, will commence admission process with two faculties – Social and Management Sciences, and Computing and Environmental Sciences.
According to him, the university will run 18 courses across the two faculties in its first four years. The programmes are Bachelor of Science in Accounting, Taxation, Entrepreneurship, Economics, International Relations and Diplomacy and Security Studies and Mass Communication.
Others are Architecture, Estate Management, Surveying and Geoinformatics, Building, Quantity Surveying, Urban and Regional Planning, Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Information and Communication Technology (ICT) and Environmental Management.
In a statement, Ologunorisa said Sam Maris will strive “to be a world-renowned university that is internationally distinguished for excellent research, high academic standards in legal, managerial, social and applied sciences and commitment to social justice.”
The statement reads: “At SAM MARIS University, we are motivated to create an ICT-driven academic conducive environment and committed to high-quality teaching, experiential learning, cutting-edge and high-impact research, and good character.
“We are driven by the need to produce globally competitive graduates nurtured with the spirit of entrepreneurship. We are also driven by the need to provide the new generation of leaders with the requisite knowledge and skills required to run the emerging 21st Century knowledge-driven economy.”
Ologunorisa said the mission of the university is to “discover, disseminate and apply the knowledge of law, social, management and applied sciences for human well-being and the development of society.”
According to him, the university is fully residential and its door is open to all irrespective of colour, race, gender and social status.
“Our ultimate goal is to produce job-creators rather than job-seekers,” he added.
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