{"id":1693,"date":"2024-02-14T23:21:17","date_gmt":"2024-02-14T22:21:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mcu.edu.ng\/welcome\/?page_id=1693"},"modified":"2024-02-15T06:05:40","modified_gmt":"2024-02-15T05:05:40","slug":"timeline","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/mcu.edu.ng\/index.php\/about-us\/timeline\/","title":{"rendered":"Timeline"},"content":{"rendered":"

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”McPHERSON IN TIMELINE” font_container=”tag:h1|text_align:center|color:%23462e68″ google_fonts=”font_family:Roboto%3A100%2C100italic%2C300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic%2C500%2C500italic%2C700%2C700italic%2C900%2C900italic|font_style:700%20bold%20regular%3A700%3Anormal” css_animation=”zoomIn”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Established in 2012,\u00a0McPherson University (McU)<\/strong>\u00a0is named after late\u00a0Aimee Semple McPherson<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 the founder of\u00a0Foursquare Gospel Church<\/strong>, whose vision and mission has always been to impact life through leadership, development and service.<\/p>\n

The Foursquare Gospel Church in Nigeria, the main sponsor of the McPHERSON UNIVERSITY (McU), has since its establishment in Nigeria in 1955, taken giant strides in education in its quest to develop and equip men and women for leadership and service. Having successfully run and impacted good education at Nursery, Primary and Secondary School levels in many towns and cities of Nigeria, the Church embraced a bigger vision of expanding in scope by complementing government efforts in producing highly skilled human resources, through the establishment of a University that is geared towards building people who are imbibed with sound and balanced academic and moral education and godly virtues.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1707973226133{margin-bottom: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;padding-bottom: 0px !important;background-color: #f2332c !important;}”][vc_column width=”1\/2″ css=”.vc_custom_1707973537381{padding-top: 50px !important;}”][tt_intro intro_color_option=”custom-color” title_color_option=”custom-color” intro_text=”Vision” css=”.vc_custom_1707973354119{margin-bottom: 0px !important;padding-top: 100px !important;}” title=”\u201c\u2026to build a People of Excellence and Integrity for Service\u201d.” intro_color=”#ffff00″ title_color=”#ffffff”][\/tt_intro][tt_newsletter][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_single_image image=”1796″ img_size=”full” css=”.vc_custom_1707973215812{margin-bottom: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;padding-bottom: 0px !important;}”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_column_text]The Church, with the desire to contribute and impact young ones, proposed to establish the Department of Religious Studies as a tuition-free programme, to encourage ministers and other people who have interest in studying the course. It therefore, commenced in the year 2014\/15 session with just three (3) students. The pioneer Head of the department was Dr. C. Nwaguma, who put in efforts to build the department before he left the system. The department has since made reasonable progress in terms of students\u2019 enrolment, staff strength, community development, among others. It is interesting to note that the Department had full NUC accreditation to produce graduate in the programme.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_single_image image=”1707″ img_size=”medium” alignment=”center”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1707972725904{margin-bottom: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;padding-bottom: 0px !important;background-color: #ffff00 !important;}”][vc_column width=”1\/2″][tt_intro intro_text=”Mission” css=”.vc_custom_1707972931045{margin-bottom: 0px !important;padding-top: 100px !important;}”]<\/p>\n

\u201c\u2026to provide qualitative, functional and sound education with Godly virtues that will prepare men and women for leadership and positive impact on Society\u201d.<\/strong><\/h2>\n

[\/tt_intro][tt_newsletter][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_single_image image=”1752″ img_size=”full” css=”.vc_custom_1707972865988{margin-bottom: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;padding-bottom: 0px !important;}”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_single_image image=”550″ img_size=”Medium” alignment=”center”][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_column_text]The Ivory tower has taken education as one of its basic foundations with a view to raising balanced \u201cChampions\u201d<\/strong> who will lead and bring the desired change.<\/p>\n

The University was licensed by the National Universities Commission (NUC) on Tuesday, 28th day of February, 2012, as the 49th private University and 121st University in Nigeria.<\/p>\n

At McPherson, we are dedicated to ensuring that students are thoroughly prepared for the now and future as the world is changing. Programmes, spiritual and social activities are structured to enhance students\u2019 academic ability and minimize distractions.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]As one of the nation\u2019s private Universities, now famous for academic excellence, the University is home of seasoned and dedicated workforce of experienced academics and amiable administrative staff.<\/p>\n

The University is located on 122.3 hectares of land at Seriki-Sotayo, near Foursquare City, Ajebo. It is bounded on the north by the Ogunmakin-Ajebo-Abeokuta road and on the east by farmlands and the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway. The site of McPHERSON UNIVERSITY lies approximately within latitude 7\u00ba07N and 7\u00ba08N and longitude of 3\u00ba41N on elevation of between 82m to 109m.<\/p>\n

The University is strongly committed to training the students to become the BEST and BRIGHTEST in their chosen paths.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/section>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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