DEPARTMENT OF COOPERATIVE ECONOMICS AND MANAGEMENT
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DEPARTMENT OF COOPERATIVE ECONOMICS AND MANAGEMENT
INTRODUCTION
Cooperative is an autonomous association of persons united voluntarily to meet their common economic, social, and cultural needs and aspirations through a jointly-owned and democratically-controlled enterprise.
Cooperative economics is a field of economics that incorporates co-operative studies and political economy towards the study and management of co-operatives.
Cooperative Economics and Management as a department seek to engage, partner with and empower people from all walks of life—particularly those left behind by a shifting economy and facing the greatest economic and societal barriers. It achieves this vision through collaborative partnerships in development, advocacy, public awareness and thought leadership. It tries to achieve more effective and equitable systems of resource management.
OBJECTIVES OF PROGRAMME
A product of Cooperative Economics and Management should be able to:-
1.Achieve more effective and equitable systems of resource management
2.Mobilize human skills, processes as well as technical and financial resources.
3. Carry out financial survey and evaluation of a proposed or existing enterprise and make recommendations.
4.Provide administrative leadership in all sizes of enterprises
5.And understand cooperatives as a model of organization that creates both social and economic value.
JOB OPTION AND CAREER PROSPECTS FOR COOPERATIVE ECONOMICS AND MANAGEMENT GRADUATES
Consulting Firms.
Financial and Investment Institutions.
Manufacturing/ Production.
Hospitality/ Tourism
NGOs/ Agencies and so many more industries
Grant manager
Trainee manager
Consultant
Analysts
Auditor.........Plus much more
ENTRY REQUIREMENTS
To qualify for a place in the department of Cooperative Economics and Management , You are required of; Five SSCE credits including English Language, Mathematics, Economics and any other two subjects from the following: Business Methods, Principles of Accounts, Literature in English, Commerce, History, Statistics, geography, Government Agric Science/Biology obtained at not more than two sittings.