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History Of Anambra State University of Science and Technology

History Of Anambra State University of Science and Technology:  Anambra State University of Science and Technology was set up by law No. 13 of 2000 by the Anambra State Government. The University was imagined a 2-Campus structure with the fundamental grounds of the University situated at Uli in the previous site of the Ekwenugo Okeke Polytechnic, formally called Anambra state Polytechnic and the second grounds situated at Igbariam in the previous site of the College of Agriculture.

The law setting up the University eliminated the State Polytechnic and the University acquired its benefits and liabilities. Then again, the University law neglected to nullify the Edict setting up the College of Agriculture, Igbariam, thus, legitimately, the University and the College existed one next to the other at the Igbariam Campus site, until 2006 when the legislature moved the College of Agriculture to Mgbakwu, around fifteen kilometers far from Igbariam.

By the Anambra State University Amendment Law No. ANHA/LAW/2006/01 of 26th January, 2006, the name of the University was changed to Anambra State University with regards to the Visitation Report of 2004 proposal that the University ought to return to a customary University.
The Amendment Law of 2006 accommodated a 3 – Campus structure for the University contains:

          A. Uli Campus
  • (1) Faculty of Engineering
    (2) Faculty of Environmental Sciences
    (3) Faculty of Science
    (4) Pre-Science Programme
    B. Igbariam Campus
    (1) Faculty of Agriculture
    (2) Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences
    C. Alor Campus
    (1) Faculty of Law
    (2) Faculty of Management Sciences
    (3) College of Health Sciences
    (4) University Teaching Hospital

The 2006 Amendment Law additionally gave that Alor Campus would house the University Administrative Headquarters in view of its centrality to alternate Campuses. Notwithstanding, Alor Campus did not take off, despite the fact that the empowering law recommended its foundation. In the mean time, the two Faculties of Law and Management Sciences are situated at Igbariam Campus of the University. Be that as it may, in 2010 the College of Medicine and Teaching Hospital being developed at Amaku General Hospital, Awka got legitimate sponsorship as the state House of Assembly passed a change demonstration to arrange a third grounds of the University a three grounds structure at Uli (Anambra South), Awka (Anambra Central) and Igbariam (Anambra North).

The University Pre-Science Program, which in 2008, was migrated to Uli Campus, is waxing more grounded. So likewise is the Part-Time/Weekend Degree Program at the Igbariam Campus. 

The University might begin new projects in the accompanying territories in next scholastic year: 

Music, Philosophy and Religion/Society in the workforce of Arts. 

Human science and Psychology in the workforce of Social Sciences. 

Urban and Regional Planning in the workforce of Environmental Sciences. 

Towards this end, Senate has endorsed the de-converging of workforce of Environmental Sciences from the personnel of Engineering at Uli Campus and the de-converging of staff of Arts from workforce of Social Sciences at Igbariam Campus. It is vital that this University is one of the organizations, the Nigerian Security and Exchange Commission is helping with the foundation of the project in Capital Market Studies. This project is being housed in the Faculty of Management Sciences at the Igbariam Campus. 

It is apropos to bring up that projects in Medicine (i.e. Pre-Med. furthermore, Pre-Clinical), based at Uli Campus, initiated in 2008/2009 scholarly year. The National Universities Commission went to these therapeutic projects on asset confirmation in 2011 and the outcomes were great and effective. 

As for the Clinical Programs of the Faculty of Medicine and Surgery based at Awka utilizing the structures and offices of the previous Amaku-General Hospital, the Government of Anambra State has quite recently developed multi-million naira physical structures to suit the Clinical Programs of the Medical School and also its Teaching Hospital
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