Cape Coast, Central Region//-The School of Business University of Cape Coast (UCC) in the Central Region of Ghana has announced that it would introduce new programmes next year to augment the number of programmes.
The new programmes which are expected to come on board are- Financial Engineering, and Master of Science (Msc) in Public Financial Management, while the school is also in the process of developing a Doctor of Business Administration programme for people in industry.
The Dean of School of Business of the UCC, Prof John Gatsi, disclosed this when executives and some members of the Institute of Financial and Economic Journalists (IFEJ) paid a courtesy call on him at his office.
He explained that the Financial Engineering programme which would be coming on board next academic year is about finance but with a heavy dose of computer science, statistics and mathematics.
“We will very soon start running the Msc in Public Financial Management programme at the School of Business Department of Finance. These two programmes are not yet on stream. But we have gone far with the accreditation process”, Prof Gatsi, said.
All these programmes will come hopefully in the 2022/2023 academic year, he assured.
“Then at the school level, we have PhD in Business Administration. We have a generic type. What it means is that when you are admitted and your focus is either on accounting, management and finance. That is what we have”.
Entrepreneurship
In its bid to further build the self-reliance capacity of its graduates, Prof Gatsi said the school had set up the Centre of Entrepreneurship & Small Enterprise Development.
“Under the centre, we have an incubator which supports the nurturing of business ideas within the community, among the schools and the students. That is actually driving our entrepreneurship programme.
We also have the university wide entrepreneurship course that every student who passes through the school must take part in. It is being managed by that centre”, he said.
Departments of the school
The School of Business of UCC was established around 2003 and 2004, currently has these departments namely Accounting, Finance, Human Resource Management, Management studies, Marketing, Supply Chain Management, and Centre for Entrepreneurship & Small Enterprise Development.
The School of Business according to the Dean was started with two progammes- Bachelor of Management Studies, and Bachelor of Business Commerce (BCom).
“In 2016, we decided to re-strategize as a result of that to afford the school to establish many more departments. From two departments, we started with now we have five and a centre”.
Currently, the school has an accounting department which deals with BCom, finance, BCom accounting for the undergraduate programme.
“For the Master’s programme, we have MCom. For those who are not familiar with our system, MCom is our version of Mphil. So, we have MCom in accounting, and we have MBA in accounting at the master’s level”, Prof Gatsi indicated.
Additionally, the school has a department of finance which currently runs BCom finance. The upcoming financial engineering programme will be run by the department.
At the master’s level at the department of finance, it runs MCom in finance and MBA in finance.
We have a department of management where we have an undergraduate programme-bachelor of commerce, and management.
The department runs Msc and Mphil in public policy at the postgraduate level. It also runs MCom in Management as well as MBA in management.
“At the department of marketing and supply chain, we have three programmes. At the undergraduate level, we have marketing and procurement and supply chain management.
At the postgraduate level, we have MSc in Procurement and Supply Chain and we have MCom in Procurement and Supply Chain. We have MCom in Procurement and Supply Chain and we also have MCom and Msc in Project management”.
We have a human resource management department where we have bachelor of commerce, human resource management at the undergraduate level. While at the postgraduate level, we have MBA in human resource management and MCom in human resource, according to Prof Gatsi.
Meanwhile, the executives of IFEJ used the occasion to thank Prof Gatsi for being the head of jury committee of their annual Flamingo-IFEJ Awards.
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