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DELSU Academic Departments Directory

Explore 187 accredited departments across 19 faculties at Delta State University. Find course curricula, duration, and admission requirements.

Faculty of Agriculture

Campus: Abraka12 Departments
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Agricultural Economics

AEC

Animal Science

ANS

Crop Science

CPS

Department of Agricultural Economics and Extension

AEE

Agribusiness management, rural development economics, extension communication, and agricultural policy analysis.

Department of Animal Science

ANS

Livestock production, animal nutrition, meat science, poultry management, and animal breeding for sustainable food systems.

Department of Crop Science

CPS

Plant breeding, crop physiology, agronomy, seed technology, and integrated pest management for improved crop productivity.

Department of Fisheries

FSH

Aquaculture, fish biology, fisheries management, post-harvest technology, and marine resource conservation.

Department of Forestry and Wildlife

FWL

Forest ecology, timber resources, wildlife conservation, agroforestry, and biodiversity management in the Niger Delta ecosystem.

Department of Soil Sciences

SOS

Soil chemistry, pedology, soil fertility management, land evaluation, and environmental soil science for optimized agricultural production.

Fisheries and Aquaculture

FAQ

Forestry and Wildlife

FWL

Soil Science

SLS

Faculty of Allied and Health Sciences

Campus: Abraka5 Departments
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Medical Laboratory Science

MLS

Nursing Science

NSC

Physiotherapy

PTH

Public Health

PBH

Radiography and Radiation Science

RRS

Faculty of Arts

Campus: Abraka15 Departments
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Department of English and Literary Studies

ELS

Literary theory, African literature, Nigerian literature, creative writing, stylistics, and advanced language studies.

Department of Fine and Applied Arts

FAA

Renowned fine and applied arts department offering studio-intensive degrees in painting, sculpture, graphic design, ceramics, and textile arts.

Department of French

FRN

French language, Francophone literature, translation studies, and French cultural studies for ECOWAS and international careers.

Department of History and International Studies

HIS

Nigerian history, African history, pre-colonial and post-colonial studies, and international relations theory.

Department of Language and Linguistics

LAN

General linguistics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, sociolinguistics, and Nigerian language studies including Urhobo and Isoko.

Department of Music

MUS

Music theory, ethnomusicology, choral directing, music composition, African musical traditions, and performance studies.

Department of Philosophy

PHI

Logic, ethics, metaphysics, epistemology, political philosophy, African philosophy, and philosophy of science.

Department of Theatre Arts

THA

Dramatic theory, acting, stage production, directing, costume and set design, and Nigerian dramatic literature.

English and Literary Studies

ENG

History and International Studies

HIS

Languages and Linguistics

LNG

Music

MUS

Philosophy

PHL

Religious Studies

RLS

Theatre Arts

THA

Faculty of Basic Clinical Sciences

Campus: Abraka9 Departments
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Chemical Pathology

CPT

Department of Chemical Pathology

CPT

Clinical chemistry, biochemical investigation of disease, metabolic disorders, toxicology, and clinical enzymology.

Department of Haematology and Blood Transfusion Science

HBT

Haematological disorders, blood grouping, blood banking, coagulation science, and transfusion medicine.

Department of Medical Microbiology and Parasitology

MMP

Diagnostic medical microbiology, clinical bacteriology, virology, medical parasitology, and infection control.

Department of Morbid Anatomy and Histopathology

MAH

Histopathology, cytopathology, post-mortem examination, tissue diagnosis, and forensic pathology.

Haematology and Blood Transfusion

HBT

Medical Microbiology and Parasitology

MMP

Morbid Anatomy and Histopathology

MAH

Pharmacology and Therapeutics

PCT

Faculty of Basic Medical Sciences

Campus: Abraka9 Departments
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Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology

ANA

Gross anatomy, histology, embryology, neuroanatomy, and cell biology — foundational sciences for medicine, surgery, and allied health.

Department of Medical Biochemistry

BCH

Molecular biology, metabolic biochemistry, clinical enzymology, nutrition biochemistry, and pharmacological biochemistry.

Department of Medical Laboratory Science

MLS

Clinical laboratory science, diagnostic techniques, laboratory management, quality control, and biomedical research methodology.

Department of Nursing Science

NSC

Accredited nursing programme providing dual academic and professional clinical nursing certification.

Department of Pharmacology

PCL

Drug mechanisms of action, pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics, clinical toxicology, and chemotherapy.

Department of Physiology

PHS

Human physiology covering cardiovascular, respiratory, renal, endocrine, neurological, and reproductive systems.

Human Anatomy

ANA

Human Physiology

PHS

Medical Biochemistry

MBC

Faculty of Clinical Medicine

Campus: Abraka16 Departments
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Anaesthesia

ANS

Community Medicine

CMM

Department of Anaesthesia

ANA

Peri-operative anaesthetic care, pain management, intensive care medicine, and resuscitation science.

Department of Community Medicine

COM

Epidemiology, biostatistics, public health policy, occupational health, environmental health, and disease surveillance.

Department of Ear, Nose and Throat (ENT)

ENT

Otorhinolaryngology, head and neck surgery, audiological science, and voice disorders.

Department of Medicine and Surgery

MED

Accredited medical school training medical doctors and surgeons at the DELSU Teaching Hospital (DELSUTH) Oghara.

Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology

OBG

Maternal healthcare, obstetric emergencies, gynaecological surgery, reproductive medicine, and perinatal care.

Department of Ophthalmology

OPH

Eye diseases, surgical ophthalmology, community eye health, ophthalmic optics, and low vision rehabilitation.

Department of Paediatrics

PAE

Neonatology, child health, paediatric infectious diseases, nutrition disorders, and paediatric emergency medicine.

Department of Psychiatry

PSY

Mental health disorders, psychopharmacology, community psychiatry, addiction medicine, and clinical psychology.

Department of Radiology

RAD

Diagnostic imaging, ultrasound, CT scanning, MRI interpretation, interventional radiology, and radiation safety.

Internal Medicine

MED

Obstetrics and Gynaecology

OBG

Ophthalmology

OPH

Paediatrics

PED

Surgery

SUR

Faculty of Communication and Media Studies

Campus: Abraka8 Departments
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Broadcasting

BRD

Department of Advertising

ADV

Advertising strategy, media planning, brand management, creative copywriting, and digital marketing communications.

Department of Broadcasting

BRD

Radio and television production, broadcast journalism, news anchoring, studio operations, and digital broadcasting.

Department of Film and Multimedia

FMM

Film production, cinematography, video editing, digital storytelling, animation, and screen writing for the Nollywood industry.

Department of Public Relations

PBR

Corporate communications, stakeholder relations, crisis management, event management, and media liaison.

Development Communication

DVC

Journalism and Media Studies

JMS

Public Relations and Advertising

PRA

Faculty of Computing

Campus: Abraka5 Departments
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Computer Science

CSC

Cyber Security

CYS

Data Science

DSC

Information Technology

IFT

Software Engineering

SEN

Faculty of Dentistry

Campus: Abraka10 Departments
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Child Dental Health

CDH

Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery

OMS

Facial trauma surgery, dental implants, jaw reconstruction, oral cancer management, and exodontia.

Department of Oral Pathology and Oral Medicine

OPM

Oral mucosal disease, oral cancer diagnosis, dental histopathology, salivary gland diseases, and temporomandibular joint disorders.

Department of Paediatric Dentistry

PDD

Dental care for children and adolescents, growth and development, interceptive orthodontics, and management of dental anxiety in children.

Department of Preventive Dentistry

PDT

Oral public health, community dentistry, dental epidemiology, fluoride therapy, and school dental health programmes.

Department of Restorative Dentistry

RDT

Conservative dentistry, endodontics (root canal therapy), fixed and removable prosthodontics, and dental aesthetics.

Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery

OMS

Oral Pathology and Medicine

OPM

Preventive Dentistry

PRD

Restorative Dentistry

RSD

Faculty of Education

Campus: Abraka16 Departments
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Arts Education

AED

Department of Arts Education

AED

Teacher training in languages, literature, fine arts, music, and theatre arts for secondary education in Nigeria.

Department of Early Childhood and Primary Education

ECE

Early childhood development, pre-primary and primary school teaching methods, child psychology, and Montessori principles.

Department of Educational Administration and Planning

EAP

School administration, educational policy, institutional planning, educational leadership, and human resource management in education.

Department of Guidance and Counselling

GNC

School counselling, career guidance, psychological assessment, student welfare, and counselling psychology theory.

Department of Mathematics Education

MAE

Mathematics pedagogy, curriculum development, numerical reasoning, statistics education, and mathematics anxiety interventions.

Department of Physical and Health Education

PHE

Sports science, kinesiology, physical education pedagogy, health education, and sports management.

Department of Science Education

SED

Secondary science teacher preparation in biology, chemistry, physics, integrated science, and agricultural science education.

Department of Social Science Education

SSE

Teacher training in economics, geography, government, history, and social studies for Nigeria's schools.

Department of Vocational and Technical Education

VTE

Technical drawing, home economics education, woodwork and metalwork education, and vocational skills teacher training.

Educational Management and Foundations

EMF

Guidance and Counselling

GNC

Human Kinetics and Health Education

HKE

Science Education

SED

Social Science Education

SSE

Vocational and Technical Education

VTE

Faculty of Engineering

Campus: Oleh10 Departments
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Chemical Engineering

CHE

Civil Engineering

CVE

Department of Chemical Engineering

CHE

Chemical process design, reaction engineering, mass and heat transfer, petrochemical refining, and industrial safety.

Department of Civil Engineering

CVE

Structural engineering, geotechnical engineering, transportation engineering, water resources, and environmental engineering.

Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering

EEE

Power systems, electronics, telecommunications, control systems, renewable energy, and microprocessor engineering.

Department of Mechanical Engineering

MEE

Thermodynamics, machine design, manufacturing technology, fluid mechanics, automotive engineering, and industrial automation.

Department of Petroleum Engineering

PTE

Reservoir engineering, drilling technology, production engineering, petroleum geomechanics, and upstream oil and gas operations.

Electrical and Electronics Engineering

EEE

Mechanical Engineering

MEE

Petroleum Engineering

PTE

Faculty of Environmental Science

Campus: Abraka7 Departments
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Architecture

ARC

Building Technology

BLD

Estate Management

ESM

Fine and Applied Arts

FAA

Quantity Surveying

QTS

Surveying and Geoinformatics

SVG

Urban and Regional Planning

URP

Faculty of Law

Campus: Oleh8 Departments
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Commercial and Industrial Law

CIL

Department of Commercial and Property Law

LAW

Leading law faculty situated at DELSU Oleh campus offering recognized LL.B degree programmes accredited by the Council of Legal Education.

Department of Jurisprudence and International Law

JIL

Legal philosophy, theories of law, public international law, humanitarian law, and international organizations.

Department of Private and Property Law

PPL

Law of torts, equity and trusts, family law, succession law, and customary law in Nigeria.

Department of Public Law

PBL

Constitutional law, administrative law, electoral law, human rights law, and governance law in Nigeria.

Jurisprudence and International Law

JIL

Private and Property Law

PPL

Public Law

PBL

Faculty of Library and Information Science

Campus: Abraka2 Departments
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Archival Studies and Records Management

ARM

Library and Information Science

LIS

Faculty of Management Sciences

Campus: Abraka12 Departments
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Accounting

ACC

Banking and Finance

BAF

Business Administration

BAD

Department of Accounting

ACC

Premier accounting department providing ICAN-accredited training in financial reporting, auditing, taxation, and forensic accounting.

Department of Banking and Finance

BFN

Banking operations, financial markets, corporate finance, investment analysis, risk management, and monetary policy.

Department of Business Administration

BUS

Strategic management, organizational behaviour, human resource management, operations management, and entrepreneurship.

Department of Entrepreneurship

ENT

New venture creation, business planning, innovation management, SME financing, and startup ecosystem development.

Department of Marketing

MKT

Marketing strategy, consumer behaviour, digital marketing, brand management, sales management, and market research.

Department of Office and Information Management

OIM

Records management, information systems, secretarial science, office automation, and knowledge management in organizations.

Department of Public Administration

PAD

Public policy analysis, government administration, local government administration, and public sector management.

Marketing

MKT

Public Administration

PAD

Faculty of Pharmacy

Campus: Abraka11 Departments
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Clinical Pharmacy and Pharmacy Practice

CPP

Department of Clinical Pharmacy and Pharmacy Practice

CPP

Patient-centred pharmacy practice, medication therapy management, pharmacovigilance, hospital and community pharmacy.

Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry

PCH

Drug synthesis, medicinal chemistry, pharmaceutical analysis, quality control, and structure-activity relationships in drug design.

Department of Pharmaceutics and Pharmaceutical Technology

PPT

Drug formulation, dosage form design, biopharmaceutics, pharmacokinetics, and industrial pharmacy manufacturing.

Department of Pharmacognosy and Natural Medicine

PGN

Medicinal plants, herbal drug standardization, natural product chemistry, ethnopharmacology, and traditional medicine integration.

Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology

PLT

Drug mechanisms of action, clinical toxicology, chemotherapy, cardiovascular pharmacology, and neuropharmacology.

Department of Pharmacy Administration

PAA

Pharmacy law and ethics, health economics, pharmaceutical policy, drug regulatory affairs, and social pharmacy.

Pharmaceutical Chemistry

PCH

Pharmaceutics and Pharmaceutical Technology

PPT

Pharmacognosy and Traditional Medicine

PGN

Pharmacology and Toxicology

PHT

Faculty of Science

Campus: Abraka11 Departments
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Department of Biochemistry

BCH

Molecular biochemistry, enzymology, metabolic pathways, nutrition, clinical biochemistry, and biotechnology.

Department of Botany

BOT

Plant biology, plant ecology, plant taxonomy, plant physiology, economic botany, and plant biotechnology.

Department of Chemistry

CHM

Organic, inorganic, physical, and analytical chemistry — with applications in drug development, materials science, and environmental chemistry.

Department of Computer Science

CSC

Cutting-edge computer science curriculum focusing on software engineering, data structures, artificial intelligence, and cloud computing.

Department of Geology

GEO

Mineralogy, petrology, stratigraphy, structural geology, petroleum geology, and engineering geology.

Department of Geophysics

GPH

Applied seismology, gravity and magnetic surveys, well-log analysis, seismic data interpretation, and environmental geophysics.

Department of Mathematics

MTH

Pure mathematics, applied mathematics, numerical analysis, statistics, operations research, and mathematical modelling.

Department of Microbiology

MCB

General and medical microbiology, mycology, virology, environmental microbiology, food microbiology, and biotechnology.

Department of Physics

PHY

Classical and modern physics, electronics, solid-state physics, optics, nuclear physics, and applied geophysics.

Department of Statistics

STA

Statistical theory, probability, regression analysis, biostatistics, survey sampling, and data science.

Department of Zoology

ZOO

Animal diversity, ecology, parasitology, physiology, wildlife management, and marine biology.

Faculty of Sciences

Campus: Abraka10 Departments
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Animal and Environmental Biology (Zoology)

AEB

Biochemistry

BCH

Chemistry

CHM

Geology

GEL

Industrial Chemistry

ICH

Industrial Mathematics

IMT

Mathematics

MTH

Microbiology

MCB

Physics

PHY

Plant Science and Biotechnology (Botany)

PSB

Faculty of Social Sciences

Campus: Abraka11 Departments
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Department of Economics

ECO

Microeconomics, macroeconomics, development economics, econometrics, international trade, and monetary economics.

Department of Geography and Regional Planning

GRP

Urban planning, GIS and remote sensing, environmental geography, regional development planning, and cartography.

Department of Mass Communication

MCM

Media sociology, communication theory, investigative journalism, media ownership structures, and digital news.

Department of Political Science

POL

Nigerian politics, comparative politics, political theory, international relations, public policy, and governance studies.

Department of Psychology

PSY

Clinical psychology, developmental psychology, social psychology, cognitive psychology, and industrial-organizational psychology.

Department of Sociology and Anthropology

SOA

Social theory, ethnography, gender studies, Niger Delta community studies, criminology, and social research methods.

Economics

ECO

Geography and Regional Planning

GRP

Political Science

POL

Psychology

PSY

Sociology

SOC