The Benue State Polytechnic is a tertiary education institute in Ugbokolo,

Okpokwu Okpokwu is a Local Government Area of Benue State, Nigeria. Its headquarters are in the town of Okpoga located in the south of the area. Benue State Polytechnic is located in the town of Ugbokolo in this LGA. It has an area of 731 km and ...

LGA,

Benue State Benue State is one of the North Central states in Nigeria with a population of about 4,253,641 in 2006 census. The state was created in 1976 among the 7 states created at that time.The state derives its name from the Benue River which is t ...

Nigeria Nigeria ( ), , ig, Naìjíríyà, yo, Nàìjíríà, pcm, Naijá , ff, Naajeeriya, kcg, Naijeriya officially the Federal Republic of Nigeria, is a country in West Africa. It is situated between the Sahel to the north and the Gulf of G ...

. The current Rector is Dr. Usman David Kuti. It was originally known as the ''Murtala College of Arts, Science and Technology'', established in 1977 by the military governor of Benue State, Colonel

Abdullahi Shelleng Abdullahi Shelleng (born 20 January 1942) was the first Military Governor of Benue State, Nigeria from 3 February 1976 to July 1978 during the military regime of General Olusegun Obasanjo, after Benue State had been split from the old Benue-Plate ...

(1976–1978). In 1983, the college's Department of Agriculture of the College was merged with

Akperan Orshi College of Agriculture Akperan Orshi Polytechnic, Yandev is a tertiary institution in Yandev near Gboko, Benue State, Nigeria. The college dates back to 1926 when the British colonial government established a farm training center at Yandev, then in Tiv province of t ...

. The school is approved as a state-owned polytechnic by the

National Board for Technical Education The National Board for Technical Education, otherwise known as NBTE, is a board of education which supervises, regulates and oversees educational programmes offered by technical institutions at secondary, polytechnic and monotechnic levels th ...

. Following violence elsewhere in Benue State in March 2006, during a peaceful student protest at the polytechnic about a student killing and against increase in fees, the chairman of Okpokwu Local Government urged students not to take the law into their own hands. At the 29th Matriculation Ceremony of new students later that month the rector urged students to shun all social ills. In November 2008 the polytechnic's school of Business and Management Studies organized its first annual national conference with the theme: ''Imperatives of Prudent Resources Management in Nigeria for Sustainable Development''.

Schools and Departments

The following are the schools and departments of the institution; School of Art, Design and Printing *Department of Fine Art * Department of Industrial Design *Department of Printing Technology School of Business and Management Studies *Department of Accounting * Department of Marketing *Department of Banking and Finance *Department of Office technology and management *Department of Business Admin and management School of Engineering Technology * Department of Civil Engineering technology * Department of Mechanical Engineering Technology * Department of welding and fabricating Engineering Technology * Department of Electrical/Electronic Engineering Technology School of general and preliminary studies * Department of Library and Information Science * Department of Preliminary studies * Department of Mass Communication School of administrative and vocational studies * Department of Legal Studies * Department of Local Government and Community Development * Department of Public Administration *Department of Public accounting/Audit * School of Environmental Studies * Department of Building Technology * Department of Architectural Technology * Department of Surveying and Geo-informatics * Department of Estate Management School of Technology * Department of Computer science * Department of Hospitality Management * *

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Polytechnics in Nigeria Education in Benue State 1977 establishments in Nigeria Public universities in Nigeria Educational institutions established in 1977 {{Nigeria-university-stub

Schools and Departments

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