BY DAYO ADESULU & JONAH NWOKPOKU

Pan-Atlantic University, yesterday, announced the commencement of undergraduate programme for Mass Communication and Business Administration.

The school’s Registrar, Rosemary Okolo, made the announcement at a briefing on the Victoria Island campus of the university.

The undergraduate programme will kick off by September 2014.

She said: “For 11 years, Pan-Atlantic University had been a graduate university that offered exclusively post graduate programmes and executive education courses.

“In that time, it had created a reputation for high standards of ethics and professional competence both inside and outside Nigeria.

“The university will now extend its activities to become a full service university that will also offer first degree programmes.

“Initially, the programmes will be in professional fields such as Business and Mass Communication and they will begin at the Ibeju Lekki campus of the university.”

Dean, School of Media and Communication, Professor Emevwo Biakolo said: “The undergraduate programmes will prepare young people for entry into the exciting world of media and communication, to serve an industry in desperate need of excellence and to provide firms with the first rate human resources to meet their communication needs.”

Deputy Dean, School of Business Administration, Professor Chantal Epie, noted that “Business Administration and Accountancy, which were the first programmes to be offered by the school, were not new fields of activity for Pan-Atlantic University.”