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”.
Our Objectives:
- 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.
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. ”
