Programmes

The Department of Geology runs undergraduate degree programmes in Geology and Applied Geophysics and postgraduate degree programmes in four distinct options: Sedimentary and Petroleum Geology, Applied Geophysics, Geochemistry and Mineral Exploration, and Engineering Geology and Hydrogeology. It is thus essentially several departments in one.

Our vision is to develop a department that will rank among the best 100 in the world, whose products are globally sought after.

The Department ran a B. Sc. Geology degree programme until the 1974 / 1975 academic year when the B. Sc. Applied Geophysics degree programme was introduced. Our Department was the first to introduce the undergraduate (i.e. B. Sc.) Applied Geophysics programme in Nigeria. In the same year (i.e. 1974), under the dynamic leadership of Professor Olúwafèyísọlá Sylvester Adégòkè, the then Head, the Department introduced three M. Sc. Applied Geology degree programmes [in Sedimentary and Petroleum Geology, Geochemistry and Mineral Exploration, and Hydrogeology and Engineering Geology]. It subsequently introduced the M. Sc. Applied Geophysics degree and M. Phil. and Ph. D. Degree programmes in Applied Geology and Applied Geophysics. Since its establishment some forty years ago, the Department has graduated over 1000 students at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. Today, these graduates occupy key positions in the solid minerals, petroleum (oil and gas), environmental, hydrogeological and other sectors of the Nigerian economy, including politics and the academia.