What you Need to know about Auchi Poly

Do you know that Auchi Polytechnic is a front line polytechnic in Nigeria and it is located in a vibrant and cosmopolitan town. It has over 8,000 students enrolled in business, technology, environmental and arts courses?

Auchi Polytechnic strongly supports continuous reviews and updates of curricula to meet current national and global challenges. This thinking is to enrich the curricular and re-orientate students too be self-employed and create jobs on graduation. Entrepreneurial courses have been introduced in all programmes offered in the institution.

Auchi Polytechnic was founded in 1963, first as a technical college which was a gift of the British government to the then Midwestern Region. It offered courses only up to the Ordinary Diploma level in limited areas of engineering and business. By the seventies, there was a need for skilled manpower at a higher level and in many more disciplines. Thus in 1973, the Bendel State Government upgraded the technical college to a full-fledged polytechnic with the mandate to train skilled manpower up to the Higher National Diploma level in a broad range of engineering, science, environmental studies, business studies and art and design.

The extant law establishing it assigned to the institution the task of producing well trained and highly skilled middle level manpower for the national economy in the areas of engineering, applied sciences and technology, environmental studies, management studies, and art and industrial design. In 1994, the Federal Government took over the polytechnic from the Edo State Government.