About
The CCODeL mission drives our focus on quality education for all and service to our neighbours in need.
Covenant University is a private Christian University, which has been operating with official status since 2002 in Ota, Ogun State, Nigeria. Covenant University is one of the leading universities in Africa found on Christian mission ethos. She drives a vision to raise a new generation of leaders and reinstate the black race’s dignity. The University prioritizes cutting-edge learning to make “the Total Man”.
The university has four colleges: The College of Business and Social Sciences, the College of Leadership and Development Studies, the College of Engineering, and the College of Science and Technology. Covenant University has had a rapid rise in nearly two decades of its existence. The webometric ranking named Covenant University the best Private University in Nigeria in its 2021 ranking and the second-best university overall. Covenant University’s Vision 7:2030 outlines a commitment to establishing a distance learning centre to cater to students’ educational needs, called the Covenant Centre for Open and Distance e-Learning (CCODeL).
The establishment of the Covenant Centre for Open and Distance e-Learning (CCODeL) was borne out of the vision to provide accessible world-class higher education to more interested learners limited by the existing human and physical resources or engaged in other life-demanding activities. Covenant Centre for Open and Distance e-Learning (CCODeL) is an excellent opportunity for learners who wish to study and learn in their own time and place. It is also committed to providing quality, accessible, affordable, open and distance education. Many learners have schedules that do not fit the traditional on-campus programme offerings, and CCODeL offers a viable avenue for quality education. Open and Distance e-learning is ideal for learners who want an education but do not live near the Covenant University campus. The distance learning centre at Covenant University offers quality and convenience for today’s hectic lifestyle without the need to come to campus. We provide high-quality online programs. As a learner at Covenant Centre for Open and Distance e-Learning (CCODeL), your academic learning will be equivalent to what you will obtain on campus.
Covenant University, founded in 2002 in Ota, Nigeria, is a leading private Pentecostal Christian university in Africa, with a mission to cultivate new leaders and restore dignity to the black race. It emphasizes cutting-edge education for holistic development.
Covenant Centre for Open and Distance e-Learning (CCODeL) was established to offer world-class higher education to learners constrained by resources or other commitments. CCODeL provides flexible learning opportunities, ensuring quality, affordability, and accessibility. It caters to learners unable to attend on-campus programs, offering equivalent academic standards through online education.
Our Mission
“To create knowledge and restore man’s dignity through a Human Development concept of the Total Man, employing innovative, leading-edge teaching and learning methods.
The application of research that promotes integrated, life- transforming values through Science, Technology and Human Capacity Building”.
- Provide facilities for learning and give instructions and training in such areas of knowledge that will produce sound and mentally equipped graduates, who will provide intellectual leadership in academic institutions, industry, and the public sector through the Total Man Concept approach.
- Develop and offer academic and professional programmes leading to the award of diplomas, first degrees and higher degrees, which emphasise planning, adaptive and technological maintenance, and developmental and productive skills.
- Promote by research and other means, the advancement of knowledge and its practical application to social, cultural, economic, scientific, and technological problems.
- Encourage and promote scholarship and conduct research in all fields of learning and human endeavour.
- Disseminate scientific and technological knowledge among scientists, researchers, industries, trade services and other bodies; and relate its activities to the technological, scientific, and socio-economic needs of the people of Nigeria and undertake other activities appropriate for a university of the highest standard.
- Provide access to quality education and equity in educational opportunities for those who otherwise would have been denied. vii. meet the special needs of employers by mounting special certificate courses for their employees at their workplace.
- Encourage internationalisation, especially in tertiary education curricula; and
- Ameliorate the effect of internal and external brain drain in the University by utilising Nigerian expert teachers regardless of their location or places of work.
In response to the global demand for a departure from dogmatism to dynamism in the existing educational system, Covenant University is built on the following philosophical platform:
- A departure from from to skill
- A departure from knowledge to empowerment
- A departure from figures to future-building
- A departure from legalism to realism
- A departure from mathematics to life-matics
Our core values are the defining components of the Covenant University vision. They reflect our beliefs in the encrypted truths that firmly define our purpose and the underlining ethos of our existence as a University.
Spirituality
This forms the bedrock of our existence as a University and defines every aspect of our operations and context. The Christian ethos underlines our activities and conducts at all times and every student of Covenant University is expected to exhibit character traits and dispositions of a Jesus-centred heritage. The Jesus-factor centred approach to all issues is non-negotiable and central in the pursuit of our mandate in raising a new generation of leaders. To this extent, therefore, students are to be committed to maintaining a high level of spirituality and act in such a manner to facilitate their spiritual growth. Attendance at chapel services, which every student is expected to attend with a Bible, notebook and pen, is a compulsory and essential part of students’ spiritual development. Students are also expected to demonstrate a deep reverence for God at all times.
Possibility Mentality
Students of Covenant University are expected to exhibit a royal carriage, attitude, habit and character, exuding self-confidence and dignity at all levels of interaction and in general conduct. They are expected to see themselves as persons of worth and value, taking pride in their uniqueness as individuals with a positive mindset devoid of any trace of inferiority.
Capacity Building
This is related to commitment to a lifestyle of continuous academic and personal development, striving to be continuously relevant to the overall vision requirement of the University as well as her core mission, goals and objectives. Students are encouraged to constantly seek paths for self-improvement. Openness to learning new skills and taking on board new information is a trait expected of Covenant University students in order to have robustness and depth in the quality of their output.
Integrity
Students of Covenant University are expected to demonstrate traits of honesty, uprightness and trustworthiness at all times. They must ensure that they are accountable, transparent and open in all their dealings. They shall flag truth as a virtue at all times, particularly in conduct during examinations, obeying the rules and regulations of the University, being spiritually sound, morally upright and having a good conscience.
Responsibility
We are committed to inculcating a sense of responsibility in our students. We believe in the place of discipline for effective leadership. We expect our students to respond to issues as demanded not as convenient. Here at Covenant University, our students are not permitted to do what they like but what is right. Punctuality at lectures, as well as prompt response to assignments as demanded, is a desired trait of responsibility.
Diligence
Students of Covenant University are expected to be deeply committed to their assignments. We expect that they will extol the virtues of hard work and constantly strive towards excellent attainment in all they do.
Sacrifice
Sacrifice is the ultimate price for outstanding leadership. It is the quality of sacrifice that defines great leadership. We, therefore, expect students of Covenant University to go the extra mile and pay the extra-price in the attainment of their set goals. Raising an altar of sacrifice in pursuit of their dreams is what must distinguish and define the Covenant University student.
The programmes of the University target the person before his or her profession. In this way, the University can raise a generation of experts who possess the capacity to face and manage challenges. The TMC Programme focuses on the three components of the human personality: the spirit, the mind, and the body.
Spiritual development is to us a major force for the evolvement of the Total Man, as mental excellence and understanding are generated through the vital force in man, which is the Spirit of God and the Spirit of intelligence.
As a University sponsored by a Christian mission, character formation is considered a spiritual issue that is instilled by self-discipline and commitment to the principles enunciated by our Lord Jesus Christ.
Covenant University provides opportunities for spiritual development through various avenues, including spiritual formation programmes and counselling, and also by creating leadership opportunities.
Covenant University students enjoy the highest standards of excellence through the institution of academic programmes that are innovative, creative and functional.
Covenant University also encourages students to be inquisitive, bold and forthright in asking questions and facing the challenges of academic leadership.
The Total Man concept is also promoted through the introduction of a system of compulsory, theoretical and practical courses, all of which must be passed before one can be considered for a degree from the University.
In addition to normal General Studies courses, we have included our own specially-designed courses in areas such as biographical studies, entrepreneurship, family life, human development process, leadership development, mental development, success concepts, work ethics and Towards the Total Graduate (TTG) Programme
The body is a vital component of the Total Man. Covenant University is committed to providing avenues for sound physical development via recreational activities that engage the body and also enhance personality development, stimulating the cultivation of lifestyles that are conducive to healthy living. We thus encourage students to participate in sporting activities.
CCODeL
David Oyedepo
Chancellor, Covenant University
“Knowledge is the key to freedom. It turns frustration to fufillment, sweat into sweet. Nothing approximates the power of knowledge. It is the key to dominion. ”
