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Achievements

The Centre has recorded landmark achievements till date.
  • Out of the 53 candidates admitted in the first batch (2013/2014 Session), 37 graduated in March 2017, within the minimum target time and presently about 90% of them are gainfully employed. In March 2019, a further 7 PhD students from the first batch also graduated, bringing the total number of graduates to 44. Out of the 70 Ph.D. students admitted in the second batch (2016/2017 session), 9 are regional students from countries in East and West Africa. The second batch of students have completed their course work and are now fully into the research aspect of their programme. The third batch of 64 PhD students admitted in the 2017/2018 session has begun lectures.
  • A total number of 383 participants took part in short courses and internship programmes.
  • More than 200 participants had international certification as Environmental Professionals with the National Registry of Environmental Professionals (NREP) USA.
  • The Center received national accreditation from the National Universities Commission (NUC) for 12 of its post graduate programmes coordinated by ACE-CEFOR.
  • The Center carried out an international gap analysis in the Petroleum and Gas Engineering programmes in June 2017 by ABET.
  • More than 100 papers arising from the research work of students from ACE-CEFOR have been published in reputable journals.
  • We also attracted more than 60 experts both from academia and industry as resource persons and as well entered into several partnerships with the industry, professional bodies and foreign universities.
  • With the help of World Bank support, the ACE-CEFOR building was completed and commissioned in March 2018. The building has the following facilities: Language lab, E-library, Lecture/Conference halls, Offices, Video conferencing facilities and full internet facilities.
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