About Rivers State University of Science and Technology

  About Rivers State University of Science and Technology The Rivers State University of Science and Technology (RSUST) in Port Harcourt w...

 

About Rivers State University of Science and Technology

The Rivers State University of Science and Technology (RSUST) in Port Harcourt was founded in October 1980. It grew out of the 1972-founded Rivers State College of Science and Technology. It is in Nkpolu-Oroworukwo, which is in Port Harcourt, Nigeria. Port Harcourt is the capital of Rivers State. It is Nigeria's first Technological University and the first State University in Nigeria's Niger Delta area that is owned by the government. "Excellence and Creativity" is the University's slogan. The University has a team of 1,870 people and more than 29,000 students. Out of the 80 Universities in Nigeria, this one is ranked 16th or 12th. The only language taught in the school is English.

The Mandate of the University

RSUST was established to:

Create the different levels of scientific and technical staff needed for growth;

Make teachers of science and technology for growth programs;

Help with industrial and other programs for growth by offering consulting services, special project centers, and other similar things;

Encourage the progress of learning so that everyone, regardless of race, religion, sex, or political beliefs, has the chance to get a better and liberal education.

Provide courses of study and other learning resources in all schools and institutes, and make those resources available to people who are qualified to use them on fair terms.

Encourage and promote study and research in all areas of learning and human endeavor;

connect what it does to the people of Nigeria's social, cultural, and economic needs; and

Do any other things that a University of the highest level should do.

Faculties/Schools

The University has seven schools: Agriculture, Engineering, Environmental Sciences, Law, Management Sciences, Science and Technical and Science Education, and a Postgraduate School. 

 Institutes/Centres

 RSUST has five Institutes: the Institute of Foundation Studies, the Institute of Pollution Studies, the Institute of Education, the Institute of RIART, and the Institutes of Geosciences and Space Technology.

 Centers

 It has three Centers: the Centre for Continuing Education, the Centre for Special Projects, and the Information and Communications Technology Center.

Academic Programmes 

At the college level, 37 programs are offered, and at the graduate level, 86.

Relocation of RSUST to Greater Port Harcourt City

 The Rivers State Government has finished making plans for a new city called Greater Port Harcourt City. This city will be built to make Port Harcourt less crowded. It is already being built up, and the Rivers State University of Science and Technology will move to a new campus that will be built as part of the new city. According to the government's mission statement, "The new University will be a leading center of academic excellence in Africa and beyond. It will be a world-class university with world-class facilities, staffed by a team of committed administrators, academics, and researchers of high caliber who share the founding vision of the new University to be ranked among the top 1,000 universities in the world by 2020." When this goal is reached, it is hoped that there will be no question that RSUST is the best in Nigeria and even Africa.