About this School

The Natural Science Programme is one of the innovations of the School of General Studies, mwhich made the University of Nigeria, Nsukka (Nigeria’s premier indigenous university) peculiar in the history of university education in Nigeria in the early 1960’s. At inception it was designed to furnish the science component of the General Studies programme so as to endear the newly admitted students to scientific practices and innovations in the then known world.

The Natural Science Unit of the University of Nigeria was established in the 1961 / 62 academic session in the then “John Russwarm College of General Studies”. However, it was not until the 1970 / 1971 academic session at the end of the Nigerian civil war that the unit had its fist student enrolment of about four hundred and thirty one. Thereafter, the Unit continued to grow yearly in terms of undergraduate students’ enrolment till 1979 / 80 academic session when the undergraduate enrolment hit the first one thousand mark. Ever since then, the undergraduate enrolment has continued to increase.