Description
Course Overview
The recent trends of globalisation and liberalisation for local and international economics, both public and private sectors require human resource with appropriate knowledge and skills necessary for efficient and effective planning, development and management in competitive changing economic environments. The Business Administration (BA) programme tend to addresses the need to develop individuals with essential knowledge skills, techniques and understanding for managerial careers. The programme caters for participants who have undergone prior business training as well as those whose professional background and pursuits are in other disciplines. As such, it is designed to meet the educational and technical needs of various professional fields and study, namely: business, health, law, education, engineering etc.
Course Objectives
This programme will have the following objective:
- To provide a rigorous and critical grounding in key generic areas of management;
- To enhance self-confidence and the ability to evaluate practical business experience from an academic, practical and a critical perspective;
- To develop awareness of the changing local and international business environment;
- To provide specialised knowledge of the chosen area;
- To instil a professional and problem-solving attitude in the practice of management;
- To provide an opportunity to the student for study in depth and breath the theoretical and practical implications of ordinary and extraordinary management in various environmental settings; and
- To develop the essential skills and knowledge to deal with quality, change and employment issues facing contemporary organisations.
Admission Requirements
Any applicant who meets the minimum entry requirements for admission may be admitted into this programme.
The requirements for admission are
- O’level Result
- Birth Certificate
- Passport Photograph
REGISTRATION PROCESS
To register for any of the available courses take the following steps
- Click on courses on the menu bar or apply now button to pick a course
- After selecting the course, click apply now to add to cart
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- Complete the payment form and select method of payment and submit.
- You will receive an email letting you know of your registration and your application status
- You will be contacted by one of our admission team member to guide you on the admission.
- After making the payment of application fee admission letter will be sent to your email with fee structure.
- You will need to make payment of at least 70% of the tuition and acceptance fee for you to be granted access to the course applied for.
- After making the payment an email will be sent to your email with access link to your registered course.
- You study online and can come to school every semester for exams.
FEE STRUCTURE
100 level Fee Structure
180,000 Naira Tuition fee
10,000 Naira Application fee
20,000 Naira Acceptance fee
20,000 Naira Examination Fee
30,000 Naira study kit (t-shirt, course guide, workbook, pen, digital material)
Total 260,000 naira
200 level Transfer Fee structure
180,000 Naira tuition fee
10,000 Naira application fee
20,000 Naira acceptance fee
30,000 Naira transfer fee
20,000 Naira Examination Fee
30,000 Naira study kit (t-shirt, course guide, workbook, pen, digital material)
Total 290,000 Naira
Transfer final year 300 level Fee structure
180,000 Naira tuition fee
10,000 Naira application fee
20,000 Naira acceptance fee
20,000 Naira Examination Fee
30,000 Naira transfer fee
20,000 Naira Project supervision fee
60,000 Naira Certificate fee
20,000 Naira convocation fee
30,000 Naira study kit (t-shirt, course guide, workbook, pen, digital material)
Total 390,000 Naira
CURRICULUM
BUSINESS MATHEMATICS (SMS 101)
Mathematics and Symbolic Logic
One important instrument for communication, but not easily mentioned is the use of figures. Figures are major instrument used for expression, especially where large data are involved. It makes expression very concise in explanation and interpretation. This makes it important for us to know how mathematical symbols and logic could be used.
Simple Sequence and Series
A series is a succession of numbers, of which each number is formed according to a definite law which is the same throughout the series.
SMALL BUSINESS FINANCE (ENT 225)
OVERVIEW OF SMALL BUSINESS
Small businesses have many definitions, which vary. The differences in these definitions are usually as a result of differences in the level of development of a country, differences in the organization and structure of industries in different countries and other consideration.
There are various criteria used in classifying small businesses such as employment (number of workers), assets value, turnover, etc. Each country tends to adopt which ever parameter or criteria suitable for it, based on their economic policies and the role small businesses are expected to play in the economic growth and development of the country.
OVERVIEW OF NIGERIAN FINANCIAL SYSTEM
In the previous unit, you studied the characteristics of small business. The present unit is a discrete unit and independent from the previous ones you have studied so far in this course. In this unit, we will discuss the Nigerian financial system to provide you the necessary understanding of its activities.
The Nigerian Financial System has evolved over the years from a rudimentary stage to a more sophisticated stage. There are so many operators, instruments, and institutions that facilitate the performance of its role, especially the role of financial intermediation. Financial intermediation is the process that facilitates the transfer of saved funds of some economic units to others for investment purposes. For example, the personal savings of an individual, placed in a bank, can be loaned to another individual or a business enterprise for the purchase of machineries, equipments, raw materials etc for productive purposes. Despite considerable research on subjects dealt with in study manuals, many lack evidence to support their ideas. Some are paternalistic, offering philosophy and advice about personal problems and, as with study skills, advice may be based on the author‘s own beliefs. For example, an author may offer suggestions for students on dealing with stress without referring to any expert on the subject. Before going into detail on this to unit, let us get the objectives of the unit.
FINANCE OPTIONS AVAILABLE FOR SMALL BUSINESS
In the previous module, we focused on the Nigerian financial system, where we treated the money market, capital market, CBN, SEC, etc in each unit of the module, to enable us understand how and where finances are mobilized. This module focused on the finance options available for small businesses. Thus, this unit dwells on the types and sources of finance. An individual who intends to start a small business needs capital and a steady source of finance.
DISTRIBUTION AND SALES MANAGEMENT (MKT 306)
OVERVIEW OF PERSONAL SELLING
A popular slogan in marketing says that “nothing happens until a sale is made”. This statement is supported by reason and experience. The typical firm can be seen as an input-output system. Having previously ascertained what the buyers wants are – specifications and requirements, it translates these into product concepts and finally into goods and services capable of satisfying the identified wants. It is not sufficient to produce outputs that can satisfy human wants, these must be properly priced and made available when and where they are needed. All these however will still not ensure that the exchange takes place and the buyer takes possession and ownership while the firm earns income (revenue). There is need for communication, in the process of which awareness is created, desires are aroused and prospects or customers are persuaded that a particular product being offered has the greatest potential to satisfy their consumption needs and the benefit of using the product outweigh the cost of acquiring it.
Sales Force Organization
The basic function of management of any firm or its units are planning organizing, coordinating, motivating, and controlling, among all others. Every firm has an objective and this is identified during the planning process. The setting up of the objectives equally identifies how the goals are to be accomplished through some strategic formulations and arrangements. The results at the end of the whole activities are monitored or appraised to determine whether the results are accomplished as initially determined or deviated from the plans, the reasons established, and some corrective measures mapped out. In between the planning and controlling stages of these management activities by the firm, organizing comes in because different resources (human, finance, materials and machines) that aid in accomplishing the results have to be arranged properly for more synergistic results.
SALES MEETINGS AND SALES CONTESTS
Communication between the sales force, markets, and the firm is an essential form of motivating the sales force. This is because the sales force activities and how to improve on them are made known to them through the constant and continuous meetings and conventions between the organization and its sales force.
At the end of this unit, you should be able to:
- explain the importance of sales meetings;
- discuss the purposes of a convention;
- discuss the major reasons of sales contests.
MARKETING RESEARCH ( MKT 403)
MARKETING RESEARCH
Marketing research is the development, interpretations, communication of decision oriented information, which is used in all phases to describe the procedures normally followed when carrying out a marketing research study before the growth of the market information.
At the end of this unit you should be able to:
- Define Marketing Research
- Identify the basic concepts in Marketing Research
MARKETING RESEARCH QUESTIONNAIRE
This unit focuses on developing a clear understanding of the importance of questionnaire designs and the process that should be undertaken in the development of survey instruments. Understanding questionnaire designs will require that you integrate many of the concepts discussed in earlier modules.
At the end of this unit, you should be able to: 1. Discuss the theoretical principles of questionnaire design. Explain why a questionnaire is more than just asking a respondent some questions . 2. Explain why a questionnaire is more than just asking a respondent some questions 3. Explain why a questionnaire is more than just asking a respondent some questions. 4. Identify and discuss the critical factors that can contribute to directly improving the accuracy of surveys and explain why questionnaire development is not a simple process. 5. Identify and explain the communication roles of questionnaire in the data collection process.
