The Department was previously named Department of Economics and Financial Studies. During this time, it houses various programmes such as Economics, Banking and Finance, Business Administration and Accounting. Immediately after the NUC accreditation exercise in the year 2015 where the Department had full accreditation status, the regulatory body recommended that all the programmes under the Department of Economics and Financial Studies, including Economics, should have full autonomous status. It was since that that the then programme came to prominence as a Department and thereafter referred to as the Department of Economics. Lending credence to the suitability of the NUC recommendation that the programme should resume as a full-fledge Department in 2015, another accreditation exercise in May 2021 also grant the Department full accreditation status. The first Head of the Department was the Late Professor Hakeem Ishola MOBOLAJI and currently under the headship of Dr. Taofeek Olusola AYINDE.
The philosophy and mission statement underlying the Economics programmes  of  Nigerian Universities is to produce graduates  equipped  with critical  skills  and  abilities to : abstract using simplified models that identify the essence of a problem; analyse  and  reason – both  deductively  and inductively; marshal evidence, assimilate structure and analyse qualitative and quantitative  data; communicate concisely the  results to a wide audience, including those with  no  training  in  Economics; think  critically about  the limits of  one’s  analysis  in a  broader socio-economic  context;  and  draw economic  policy  inferences  and  to  recognise  the  potential constraints in their implementation.
Aims and Objectives
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Candidates for admission into the four – year  degree in  Economics should possess a Senior  Secondary  School Certificate, General Certificate of Education,  NECO  or  their equivalents  with  at  least five    credit    passes,  at  not  more  than  two  sittings  including Mathematics,  English  Language  and  Economics.  In addition, candidates  must have acceptable passes in UTME.
Candidates  for  Direct  Entry admission shall  possess  five Credits  in GCE, SSCE, NECO, or  their equivalents, of which at least two shall be at  Advanced  Level, provided that  such  passes  are  not  counted at  both  levels  of the examination. For emphasis, credit passes in English Language, Mathematics and Economics are required.
The Department allows for inter-university transfer from other NUC-approved Universities and of same course or other related courses. Inter-university transfer in same course (i.e. Economics) is possible but subject to screening of academic profile to date. In this regard, the Transcript of the applicant would be evaluated to ascertain the suitability to the level upon which the inter-university application is based. Also, inter-university transfer from other related courses such as Accounting, Business Administration, Finance, Computer Science, Mathematics and Statistics are possible but subject to the strength of transcript
We develop in students the ability to apply the analytical tools, knowledge and skills acquired to the solution of societies’ economic problems.
Provide students with the knowledge and skill base, from which they can proceed to further studies in Economics, related areas or in inter-disciplinary areas that involve Economics; and
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