Faculty of Communication & Information Sciences

History of the Faculty
The Faculty of Communication and Information Sciences (CIS) was formally established via the decision of the Senate at its 193rd (Special) meeting held on 20th June, 2008. Part of that Senate decision was the movement to CIS of the Department of Computer Science from the Faculty of Science; and the movement to CIS of the Department of Mass Communication from the Faculty of Business and Social Sciences. In addition to the decision to move these two Departments, was also the decision to formally commence activities in the departments of Library and Information Science, Information and Communication Science, and Telecommunication Science.

The Faculty of Communication and Information Sciences is the University’s flagship faculty designed to take full advantage of multidisciplinary interactions of the science and technologies of computing, information and communication. Its undergraduate curriculum is designed to reflect this and underlies the Faculty’s postgraduate programmes.

There three Associations in the Faculty, namely:
* Communication and Information Science Students Associations
* Nigeria Association of Computer Science Students
* Mass Communication Students Association

Departments

• Computer Science
• Information and Communication Science
• Library and Information Science
• Mass Communication
• Telecommunication Science