Insight into Regent University College of Science and Technology
School of Business and Leadership (SBL), The School of Business and Leadership (SBL) adopts a multi-disciplinary approach in the study of business-related courses with computing, with the aim of producing highly marketable 'hybrid' professionals equipped with information technology skills and the competencies and professional skills required in their chosen fields.
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Our students are enabled, with this special arrangement, to acquire the versatility required to function effectively and successfully in today's ICT-driven business environment. The school has the following departments: Department of Accounting and Finance, and Department of Management Studies.
Department of Accounting & Finance
Undergraduate Programmes:
• BSc (Hons) Accounting with Information Systems
• BSc (Hons) Banking & Finance
• BSc (Hons) Economics with Computing
• BSc (Hons) Administration (e-Commerce option)
Department of Management Studies
Undergraduate Programmes
• BSc (Hons) Management with Computing (Marketing and Human Resource options)
Department of Accounting & Finance
BSc (Hons) in Accounting with Information Systems (AIS)
Programme philosophy and objectives
The BSc (Hons) Accounting with Information Systems aims at providing students with the knowledge, understanding and skills relating to accounting practices and theory, with an added emphasis on information systems. This programme has been designed to provide extensive practical experience and theoretical knowledge of computer-based business systems.
Employment prospects of graduates
The programme equips graduates with skills essential to the management of information efficiently for the purposes of decision-making and control. The programme prepares graduates very well for various computer-related Accounting and Audit assignments.
BSc (Hons) Banking and Finance (BF)
Programme philosophy and objectives
The multidisciplinary nature of the BSc Banking and Finance programme allows students to study business as an integrated package. This is what makes this degree distinctive: its combination of three related areas of study, namely Economics, Banking, and Finance for business. The programme equips students with a broad understanding of Managerial, Financial, and Economic concepts, enabling them to gain an awareness of the current practices and problems implicit in modern-day banking and finance. The programme produces graduates who have the necessary skills, industry, and banking experience; are knowledgeable and creative; and can readily manage people, as well as adapt to new ICT advances in the rapidly changing banking and financial environment. The programme allows bankers and non-bankers to augment their training and knowledge. It also provides an opportunity for students to convert professional qualifications such as ACIB to honours degrees.
Employment prospects of graduates
Graduates are offered the practical management education and enough breadth in complementary academic subjects to prepare them to function effectively in complex organisations, government, industry, e-commerce firms, large or small business, financial institutions, manufacturing, distribution, retailing, and the service sectors. Graduates with an entrepreneurial spirit may choose to start their own company.
BSc (Hons) Economics with Computing
Programme Philosophy and Objectives
This programme helps students to develop their knowledge on how the financial services sector is exploiting information technology for portfolio management and how e-commerce is changing the way business is transacted in the digital economy. This programme trains students in Economics with Computer Science; it provides students with the knowledge and skills required to develop future careers in Business, Finance and Governance.
Employment prospects of graduates
The programme is carefully tailored to meet the needs of industries. Thus, graduates are provided with the requisite training and skill to effectively adapt to job demands of government institutions, publicly-held organisations, private companies, and other business establishments.
BSc (Hons) Business Administration (e-Commerce option)
Programme philosophy and objectives
The ever-changing global business environment makes it imperative for organisations incorporated in Africa and the rest of the world to have a paradigm shift from the traditional approach to a contemporaneous approach to business transactions. Stated differently, rapid changes in technology, resource allocation, structural shifts in the economy, changes in consumer preferences, global competition; shifts in the employment market; environmental issues and media, necessitate a better understanding of the role and nature of business in our contemporary society. The four-year Bachelor of Science in Business Administration (BBA) degree programme produces up-to-date, assertive and effective executives for business and other organisations; and equips students for postgraduate studies in business.
The programme provides a well-rounded business education with specialisation in e-commerce. It is designed to help students develop an in-depth understanding of one of the modern business concentrations and learn a broad range of managerial capabilities, problem solving and communication skills. The programme develops students’ intellectual ability, executive personality and managerial skills through an appropriate blend of business acumen and education.
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The programme examines some key issues on the history of the Internet and electronic commerce on the world wide web (WWW), including case studies of success and failure; technologies and applications of cryptographic techniques for privacy, security and authentication, digital money, digital signature transaction processing; business-oriented aspects of wired and wireless access technologies, multimedia streaming, XML, entrepreneurial skills for defining, protecting, growing and raising capital for e-business; international policies and governmental regulation, online auctions and other trading mechanisms; safe exchange, copyright protection and security, online payment mechanisms, web software infrastructure, personalisation and user tracking; integration of catalogues and other trading information.
Employment prospects of graduates
Graduates of this programme are prepared to work in the banks, other financial institutions and in small, medium and large corporations as e-commerce business and systems analysts, e-commerce developers, e-commerce project leaders or co-ordinators, web application specialists or consultants, business system analysts, customer service executives, process re-engineering executives, quality managers, and online retail managers, among others.
Department of Management Studies
BSc (Hons) in Management with Computing (Marketing and Human Resource options)
Programme philosophy and objectives
This ICT-driven programme produces graduates who are equipped with the relevant management and computing skills critical for the modern business environment. The course provides a cutting-edge training in general management, as well as an in-depth training for those who wish to undertake or enhance a career in human resource management and marketing management in the rapidly changing ICT-driven business environment.
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Employment prospects of graduates
Graduates are offered the practical management education and enough breadth in complementary academic subjects to prepare them to function effectively as human resource managers or marketing managers in complex organisations, government, industry, e-commerce firms, large or small businesses, financial institutions; manufacturing, distribution, retailing and the service sectors. Graduates with an entrepreneurial spirit may choose to start their own company.