DEPARTMENT OF CIVIL ENGINEERING

The objectives of the Department include:

1. To equip students with good knowledge of all the various branches of civil engineering with further specialization
2. To produce resourceful graduates who are innovative and can practice with little or no supervision in relative/specialized fields like construction engineering, structural engineering, environmental engineering, geotechnical/geodetics engineering. Surveying, transportation engineering and lots more.
3. To provide students with necessary tools with science and technological background and polish them in specific area of civil engineering in the graduating year.
4. Practice Civil Engineering with an awareness of and commitment to ethics and social responsibility, sustainability and diversify both as individual and as in a team.
5. v. To equip students with necessary workshop practices for the technological know-how.

For five-year degree programme, candidates with post-secondary qualifications may apply for admission into 200 Level for the relevant undergraduate programmes having satisfy all the following conditions:

1. A minimum of Credit level (C6) pass in at least 5 subjects, including English Language; Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry and any other acceptable science subjects is also required in West African Senior Secondary School Certificate (SSSC); General Certificate of Education (GCE) Ordinary Level (O’L) or equivalent, National Examinations Council (NECO), at not more than two sittings.
2. It is also desirable for candidates to have Further Mathematics and Technical Drawing at credit levels. This will be an added advantage.
3. Acceptable score in the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examinations (UTME). The subjects shall be Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry and English Language.
4. In addition, candidates with acceptable Unified Tertiary Matriculations Examinations (UTME) results will further be screened to ascertain suitability for admission into Babcock University.

For four year Direct Entry, candidates with post-secondary qualifications may apply for admission into 200 Level for the relevant undergraduate programmes having satisfy the following three conditions –

1. Candidates must satisfy the 5 credits ‘O’ Level requirements in English Language; Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry and any other one relevant subjects is also required in West African Senior Secondary School Certificate (SSSC); General Certificate of Education (GCE) Ordinary Level (O’L) or equivalent, National Examinations Council (NECO), at not more than two sittings.
2. Candidates with at least two passes in relevant subjects (Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry) at the GCE Advanced Level or IJMB or JUPEB may be considered for admission through Direct Entry. Candidates who have good National Diploma (ND) result, minimum of Upper Credit in relevant Engineering Technology programmes from recognized institution may also be considered for admission into 200 level.
3. Direct entry candidates must also satisfy the UTME requirements.

The following regulations shall govern the conditions for the award of a honours degree in Civil Engineering:

1. Candidates admitted through the UTME mode shall have registered for a minimum of 150 and maximum of 180 units of courses during the 5–year engineering degree programme. Such candidates shall have spent a minimum of ten academic semesters;
2. Candidates admitted through the Direct Entry mode shall have registered for a minimum of 120 and a maximum of 150 units of courses during a 4–year engineering degree programme. Such candidates shall have spent a minimum of eight academic semesters;
3. Candidates admitted through the Direct Entry mode at 300-Level shall have registered for a minimum of 90 and a maximum of 120 units of courses during a 3–year engineering degree programme. Such candidates shall have spent a minimum of 6 academic semesters;
4. The minimum and maximum credit load per semester is 16 and 24 credit units respectively; a student shall have completed and passed all the Courses registered for, including all compulsory courses and such elective /optional courses as may be specified by the university/faculty or department; obtained a minimum Cumulative Grade Point Average (CGPA) specified by the university but not less than 2.00; and
5. A student shall also have earned the 11 credit units of Students Industrial Work Experience Scheme (SIWES), 8 credit units of University General Study courses and four credit units of Entrepreneurship courses.