Guiding Principles for Academic Excellence and Societal Transformation
The University of Maiduguri shall be an institution dedicated to scholarship and learning in the Arts, Sciences, Humanities and Technology, and the development of moral and civic character of all persons who pass through her portals.
The University shall facilitate and advance scholarship and learning, especially in the light of her location in the Sahelian environment in the North-Eastern Nigeria, and at the crossroads of Africa and Middle-Eastern Culture.
The University of Maiduguri apart from achieving competence in the basic Arts and Sciences, aims at excellence in Agriculture, Pastoralism, Engineering, Human and Veterinary Medicine and Information Technology as well as in Arid Zone, Trans-Saharan and Inter-African Peace and Strategic Studies.
The University also aims to promote the development of Private and Public morality, discipline, accountability and probity, and also international cooperation through participation, research and dissemination of information.
As enunciated in the University of Maiduguri Act 1979, the following objectives would be pursued by the University:
Encourage the advancement of learning and hold out to all persons without distinction of race, creed, sex or political conviction, providing opportunity of acquiring a higher and liberal education.
Provide courses of instruction and other facilities for the pursuit of learning in all its branches, and to make those facilities available on proper terms to such persons as are equipped to benefit from them.
Encourage and promote scholarship and conduct research in all fields of learning and human endeavor.
Relate its activities to social, cultural and economic needs of the people of Nigeria.
Undertake any other activities appropriate for a University of the highest standard.
The Department's courses expose and equip students to higher academic and intellectual levels of abstraction and discourse on matters of historical studies, from antiquity to contemporary national, regional, and international issues.
It aims at preparing students to appreciate the value of history as a field of inquiry and an objective discipline. This allows for enhanced understanding through research and acquisition of empirical knowledge.
This also equips students to comprehend the intricacies and complexities of society as a product of the historical continuum.
The revised history curriculum has incorporated script writing and digital history workshop to deepen the knowledge and capacity of students to create digital content using their knowledge of history.
It has also adopted a course on learning from the past which is a form of applied history that focuses on critical thinking and decision making.
Development of intellectual self-confidence that propels the ability to work beyond subject matter expertise.
Communication skills in a variety of media and to a variety of audiences.
Understanding that numbers tell a story the same way words, images, and artifacts do.
Digital literacy that enables students to work with digital tools and platforms.
Collaborative skills especially with people who might not share similar worldview.
Graduates possess comprehensive skills including entrepreneurial mindset and social awareness.
And many more opportunities in research, heritage management, publishing, and public service