About The Faculty
The Faculty of Management Sciences is one of the Academic Units of the National Open University of Nigeria established in the year 2002. Then known as the School of Business and Human Resources Management (SBHRM), Faculty of Management Sciences started as one of the five Schools of the University at inception with Professor Pedro from the Bayero University Kano as the pioneer Dean of the School. At the end of his one year sabbatical leave during which he midwifed SBHRM, Professor Pedro handed over to the then Dr. Onwe as the most Senior Faculty staff in the School in 2006 as the Acting Dean; a position he held until 2008. An Economist, Dr. Mailafia – from the University of Jos took over from Dr. Onwe for a sabbatical year leave period also in an acting capacity.
The second Professor to head the SBHRM came in on sabbatical from the Lagos State University. A Professor of Public Administration, Olojede Iyabo came on board as Dr. Mailafia rounded – off his tenure in 2009. It was during Professor Olojede’s tenure as the Dean that the Faulty adopted the new name School of Management Sciences.
She exited the Office in 2010 for the then Dr. Maduabum to take over. Shortly after he was given a Professorial chair in Public Administration, Professor Maduabum led the then School of Management Sciences in year 2012 into the first ever accreditation exercise for all her existing undergraduate programmes with a ground breaking performance outcome of full accredited programmes including the professional programme – MBA and MPA.
Presently the Faculty of Management Sciences offers a full range of business related qualifications for students, business executives and Administrators. Since year 2012, new programme have been added in response to contemporary developments.
Our Vision
The vision of the Faculty of Management Sciences is to be regarded as the foremost Business School in Nigeria and Africa in general, producing high quality Management Professionals capable of supporting her myriad of public and private concerns through well-structured, convenient, flexible and accessible education via the distance-learning mode.
Our Mission
The Faculty has the primary Mission of providing exceptional learning and cutting-edge technological know-how with added value required for survival in today’s global village.
Philosophy
We are denoted from other institutions by our qualifying statement which is to be known as a world class business school which provides a caring and personalized learning environment for the growth and development of our students as well as providing training and management solutions to organizations in Nigeria.