Philosophy and Objectives

Vision of the Department

The vision of the Department is to be the centre of academic excellence in the training of future estate surveyors and valuers, and re-training of practitioners in the estate surveying and valuation profession in Nigeria and across the world.

Goal and Objectives

The aim of the Department is to become world class institution of learning in the training of future and practising estate surveyors and valuers. In attaining this goal, the following objectives are vigourously pursued:

1. To produce skilled and competent professional in real estate surveying and valuation.
2. To ensure that our students become employers of labour (not long after graduation) rather than being employees.
3. To inculcate in the students the honesty, diligence, spirituality, possibility mentality and all the virtue that will ensure that they avoid all vices and traces of corruption and unethical issues in real estate marketing.
4. To engage and retain quality Faculty and staff from across the world.

Strategies for Achieving the Objectives

In achieving each of the objectives, the following are the line of action to follow:

1. To ensure competent professionals with deep understanding of the various aspects of real estate surveying and valuation, the curriculum is structured to sharpen students imaginative solutions that are not only technically proficient but that are cotemporary in nature.
2. The approach to attaining Objective 2 is to start with quality teaching and impartation of knowledge of professional practice which many of the lecturers have acquired before joining the University. This will assist the students become professionally qualified such that they will establish their firms and companies within the shortest time possible. Students are also exposed to industrial training that lasts six months before graduation.
3. In attaing the third objective, students are taught the basics operations and strategies that professionals adopt in practice and made to understanding the unethical activities and how to avoid them in practice. This is coupled with the university’s core values that students imbibe while in School.
4. Experienced and quality lecturers are recruited and retained, no matter their race, colour or sex. Staff development through in-house and overseas training and are encourged to enhance academic qualification and performance.