BSc. Security and Investment Management

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Overview

Globally, financial systems are currently experiencing turmoil in the stock markets. Such volatile markets provide both challenges and opportunities for investors. This situation provides the need for adequate training in areas of securities and investments management. Hence, this course is designed to provide opportunities for acquiring knowledge and skills on concepts, theories and operations of capital markets, financial instruments, and investment process.

Emphasis will be placed on role of modern theories of securities and investments management by covering wide range of courses. At the completion of the programme, students should be able to have grasped adequate understanding of how securities and investments markets work, to analyse securities, and to make intelligent investment decisions based on available evidence and analysis. Emphasis shall be placed on the core elements of securities and investments management analysis that support sound decision-making by managers.

The four-year undergraduate degree programme shall also provide training on the practical elements of securities and investments management involving the trading of a variety of financial instruments within the modern market environment. The programme shall be guided by curriculum designed to provide close links to professional practice.

This will avail the students with the opportunity to learn how to evaluate the effect of changing regulatory and operating conditions and gain an understanding of the local and global dynamics in securities and investment management. It is the vision of the programme to graduate students with a combination of knowledge and practical skills guided by scrupulous respect for ethical and professional standards that would propel them forward in the career they may be pursuing. The curriculum also contains the details of requisite, staff, infrastructure, library and laboratory requirements.

Philosophy

The general philosophy of undergraduate training in Securities and Investment programme is to equip students with quality education and training that will develop the mind, impart both theoretical and practical knowledge on the individual student, develop self-confidence, and help them to be innovative and self-reliant in the field of Securities and Investments. The training should be rooted in an interactive pedagogical methodology developed to produce graduates that would strive to be upright and patriotic.

Objectives

The major objectives of a Bachelor’s degree programme in Securities and Investments are to:

  1. provide basic knowledge and skills needed for the understanding and analysis of problems related to the management and administration of industrial, commercial, public and other human organizations.;

  2. produce high level Securities and Investments manpower that will contribute to the development of Securities and Investments practices through research and publication;

  3. provide and equip students with basic knowledge and skills needed for the understanding, analysis and solving of problems relating to Securities and Investment in the management of corporate, public and other organizations;

  4. develop students in leadership and interpersonal relations skills in Securities and Investments management for national development; and

  • offer an in-depth knowledge of global securities and investments ethical principles required for practical application in the industry.
Employable Skills
21st Century Skills
Unique Features
Admission Requirements
Graduation Requirements

The product of this programme should be able to demonstrate remarkable skills based on well-grounded knowledge of Securities and Investments management, particularly in the operation of security market and design of financial systems to suit changing investments requirements of organisations.

At the end of the course, the students are expected to demonstrate certain employability skills such as:

  1. setting priorities to be able to handle long and short-term goals;

  2. leadership qualities manifested through self-assurance and confidence to effectively handle employers, supervisors, and co-workers;

  3. good communication;

  4. motivation and initiative;

  5. reliability and dependability;

  6. accommodation and spirit for team work;

  7. emotional control and Patience;

  8. resilience, adaptability and cooperative; and

  9. decisiveness and the ability to not only deal with tasks but also work stress.

The programme would lead to the development/acquisition of the following 21st century skills by the students:

  1. critical thinking;

  2. communication skills;

  3. creativity;

  4. problem solving;

  5. perseverance;

  6. collaboration;

  7. information literacy;

  8. technology skills and digital literacy;

  9. media literacy;

  10. global awareness; and

  11. self-direction.

The features of this programme are in its delivery process which shall involve:

  1. lectures and consultation-based learning methods;

  2. activity-based engagements to provide opportunities for students to learn by doing in such a way that their progress can easily be monitored, assessed and evaluated. The process shall be reinforced with some form of case studies methods with real life examples; and

  3. the use of technology media inform of digital tools to access, manage, evaluate, and synthesize information in order to solve problems individually and collaboratively and to create and communicate knowledge.

For admission into any of the first-degree programmes of the University, a candidate shall be required to possess the following minimum qualifications:

  • Senior Secondary School Certificate (SSCE) or its equivalents with credit level passes in five (5) subjects at not more than two (2) sittings. The candidate must also earn an acceptable score in the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME).

  • Candidates seeking admission by Direct Entry into 200 level must have at least five (5) O’ level credit passes, in addition to a minimum of two (2) relevant subjects at Advanced level or approved equivalents.

UTME Candidates (4-Year Degree Programme)

To qualify for entry into the 4-year programme for the award of a B.Sc. Degree in Securities and Investments, a candidate must fulfil the following:

  • Possess Five O’ level credit passes at not more than two sittings in five subjects which should include English Language, Mathematics and any other three related subjects from among the following namely: Economics, Principles of Accounts, Accounting, Finance, Book-Keeping, Commerce, Civic Education, Government, Management, Entrepreneurship.

  • Acceptable score in the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME).

Direct Entry Candidates (3-Year Degree Programme)

To qualify for entry into the 3-year programme for the award of a B.Sc. Degree in Securities and Investments, a candidate must fulfil the following:

  • Possess Five O’ level credit passes at not more than two sittings, in five subjects which should include English Language, Mathematics, and any other three related subjects from among the following namely: Business Methods, Principles of Accounts, Accounting, Commerce, Civic Education, Economics, Government, Management, Entrepreneurship.

  • Possess a minimum of two A’ Level passes in the relevant courses acceptable to the

University

The following regulations shall govern the conditions for the award of a honours degree:

1. Candidates admitted through the UTME mode shall have registered for at least 120 units of courses during the 4-year degree programme.

2. Candidates must have registered and passed all the compulsory courses specified for the programme. The determination of the class of degree shall be based on the Cumulative Grade Point Average (CGPA) earned at the end of the programme. The CGPA shall be used in the determination of the class of degree

Course Structure

100 Level
200 Level
300 Level
400 Level
Course Code Course Title Units Status LH PH
GST 111 Communication in English 2 C 15 45
GST 112 Nigerian Peoples and Culture 2 C 30 –
AMS 101 Principles of Management 2 C 30 –
AMS 102 Basic Mathematics 2 C 30 –
AMS 103 Introduction to Computer 2 C 30 –
AMS 104 Principles of Project Management 2 C 30 –
SIM 111 Fundamentals    of    Securities    and Investment I 2 C 30 –
SIM 112 Banking Technology 2 C 30 15
SIM 121 Fundamentals    of    Securities    and Investment II 2 C 30 –
Total 18      
Course Code Course Title Units Status LH PH
ENT 211 Entrepreneurship and Innovation 2 C 30 –
GST 212 Philosophy,    Logic,    and                   Human Existence 2 C 15 45
SIM 211 Law    Relating    to    Securities    & Investments 2 C 30 –
SIM 212 Introduction to Cryptocurrency 2 C 30 –
SIM 213 Business Information System 2 C 30 –
SIM 214 Investment Decision-Making I 2 C 30 –
SIM 221 Investment Trading Fundamentals 2 C 30 –
SIM 222 Introduction to Digital Economy & Web Based Systems 2 C 30 15
SIM 223 Business Communication 2 C 30 –
  Total 18      
Course Code Course Title Units Status LH PH
GST 312 Peace and Conflict Resolution 2 C 30 –
ENT 312 Venture Creation 2 C 15 45
SIM 311 Risk Management 3 C 45 –
SIM 312 Alternative Investments 3 C 45 –
SIM 313 Investment Management 3 C 45 –
SIM 314 Entrepreneurship Skills in Securities and Investments Management 2 C 30 –
SIM 321 Ethics & Professional Standards 3 C 45 –
SIM 322 Investment of Pension Fund in Nigeria 3 C 45 –
SIM 323 Fixed Income Securities 3 C 45 –
SIM 324 Research Methods 3 C 45 –
  Total 27      
Course Code Course Title Units Status LH PH
SIM 411 Practice of Stock Broking & Regulation of Securities 3 C 45 15
SIM 412 Financial Derivatives 3 C 45 –
SIM 413 Capital Market & Portfolio Theory 3 C 45 –
SIM 421 Technical Securities Analysis 3 C 45 –
SIM 422 Global Securities Analysis 3 C 45 –
SIM 423 Research Project 6 C – 27 0
 
Total
 21