Auchi Polytechnic
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| Motto | Hands & Brain for Development |
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| Type | Public |
| Established | 1964 |
| Rector | Dr. Momodu Sanusi Jimah (Ag.) |
| Location | Auchi, Edo State, Nigeria |
| Campus | Auchi |
| Nickname | Auchi Poly |
| Website | http://www.auchipoly.edu.ng |
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Auchi Polytechnic is a Federal Polytechnic in Auchi, Edo State, Nigeria. It is one of the first four Polytechnics established in Nigeria. It is located in Auchi, 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.
The school has high academic standards recognized nationally and internationally. Since 2009, Auchi Polytechnic has consistently been rated amongst the top twenty universities in Nigeria by Webometrics. It came number eleven in 2009 and in 2010 it moved to the 10th position. By 2011 it became number two. Amongst the polytechnics, it has consistently remained the first in Nigeria, in West Africa, and the second in the whole of Africa.
The graduates of the school have distinguished themselves in their chosen fields, including business, finance, engineering, science, art and design.
In competitions amongst peers, the high standards show glaringly. The polytechnic holds:
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