Degree Rules

To qualify for the award of a CEMBA/CEMPA degree, students are required to take eight of the nine courses from the list of Core Courses, the two Specialist Compulsory Courses relevant to their Award, three courses from the list of Elective Courses, and the two Required Courses for a total of 15 courses.  Each course carries a credit weighting of 6 as mentioned earlier.  The total credit weighting of each programme is therefore 90 (6 credit units x 15 courses).

Please note that you should not omit any Core Course, which relates to an area in which you intend to specialize.  In particular, students proceeding to CEMPA must not omit the following courses:

• Public Systems Management
• Management in Organisations

The structure of the two programmes is summarised in the following Table

	CEMBA	CEMPA
CORE	8 courses from the core courses list	6 courses from core courses  List   plus Public Systems Mgmt. Management in Organisations
Specialist        Compulsory:	Strategic Management                          Quality Assurance Management	Public Policy Development Planning   and Administration
Electives:	3 courses from Elective    List	3 courses from Elective List
Required Courses:	Research Methods Project	Research Methods Project

In terms of study hours, the programmes have the equivalence of two years of full-time study (i.e. four semesters or approximately 1,800 hours of study).  Each course of the programmes is assigned a nominal 120 study hours.  Study hours include such learning activities as working through study materials, preparing assignments, tutored activity and preparing for examinations.

The degree of CEMBA/CEMPA will be granted, in collaboration with the Commonwealth of Learning, by the National Open University of Nigeria.  Credits earned towards the CEMBA/CEMPA programmes are transferable between the participating institutions throughout the Commonwealth.

 

    Exit Points

 The CEMBA/CEMPA programmes are modularised with two exit points as follows:

Exit Point                       Number of Courses                                          Credits

Post-graduate
Diploma                         10 (8 core + 2 specialist compulsory)                      60

CEMBA/CEMPA          15 (8 core + 2 specialist + 3 electives
                                              + 2 required courses)                                       90

Subject to their availability, you may choose to stop at any of the above certification points based on the credit units completed by you.