faculty of Social sciences
About the Faculty
General Overview
About the Faculty
History date back to 1962 when the School of Business and Social Studies was established as one of the foundation-teaching units of the University of Lagos. In 1967, the School of Business and Social Studies was split into two namely: The School of Social Studies and the School of Business Administration. The School of Social Studies was subsequently renamed the Faculty of Social Sciences in October, 1973 with Professors T. M. Yesufu and late Obasanmi Olakanpo being the pioneer Deans. The Department of Mass Communication became a part of the Faculty in 1973 while the Department of Geography was removed from the Faculty of Environmental Sciences to become a Department in the Faculty of Social Sciences at beginning of 1997/98 Academic Session. The Faculty is made up of seven Departments, namely: Economics, Geography, Mass Communication, Political Sciences, Psychology, Sociology and Social Work. LOCATION OF THE FACULTY: The Faculty of Social Sciences is located on the Commercial Road between the Works and Physical Planning Department and the International School. The Faculty move to its present location effectively from 16th January, 2007 after the Faculty building was completed. Before then, the Faculty of Social Sciences shared the same building with the Faculty of Arts in the adjacent to the Senate House. FACULTY JOURNAL: The Faculty’’s Nigerian Journal of Business and Social Sciences (NJBSS) has been in existence for over three decades. It is an avenue for publishing peer reviewed scholarly papers both within and outside the Faculty. A special Edition of the Journal that published quality papers presented at a two-day international conference with the theme: “Climate Change, Environment and Sustainable Development” was released in March, 2014. The Journal is a Bi-Annual publication. Regular publication of the Journal commenced immediately after the publication of the Special Edition. |
Dean’s Message
The Faculty of Business Administration has grown out of the Faculty of Business and Social Studies which came into existence in October 1962, as one of the first three academic units established in the first phase of the development of the University of Lagos. Like virtually all the other Faculties of the University, the Faculty of Business Administration has gone through structural changes. In 1967, the Faculty of Business and Social Studies was divided into two Schools: the School of Administration and the School of Social Studies. The School of Administration was re-designated Faculty of Business Administration in 1973 while the School of Social Studies became Faculty of Social Sciences. The academic cooperation between these two Schools which has been envisaged in the conception of the University and was indeed implied in their location in a single Faculty has continued for some twenty-five years despite physical or structural separation. In recent reorganization exercise, for example, it was observed that some of the courses offered by the Faculty of Business Administration could be conveniently taught in the Department of Economics which is a component of the Faculty of Social Sciences
Prof. Adelaja Odukoya
FACULTY DEAN
