ABUAD ranks 84th world's best, 3rd in Africa, 1st in Nigeria – The Sun Nigeria

ABUAD ranks 84th world's best, 3rd in Africa, 1st in Nigeria – The Sun Nigeria

22nd June 2025
From Priscilla Ediare, Ado-Ekiti

Afe Babalola University, Ado-Ekiti (ABUAD), has joined the league of 100 best universities in the world.

The institution’s Acting Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Olasupo Ijabadeniyi, disclosed this to newsmen at a press conference held in Ado-Ekiti, the Ekiti State capital, at the weekend, where he said the Times Higher Education Impact Rankings announced the development in its 2025 report.
He further disclosed that ABUAD has also been ranked 3rd in Africa and 1st in Nigeria for four consecutive years: 2022, 2023, 2024, and now 2025.

The acting VC said the global recognition was a dream come true for the proprietor of the university, Aare Afe Babalola (SAN), in his lifetime. He revealed that the founder a few years ago said, “My wish, my hope and prayer is that this university must, in my lifetime, be recognised by the international body as one of the best 100 in the world. So, I still have a lot of work to do to bring this dream into fruition.”
The acting VC, who said that the 15-year-old university has been making headlines since its establishment, having navigated its way to the very top in the comity of universities nationally and internationally, attributed the achievements to the resilience, hard work, and Frankenstein leadership of the founder.
He also ascribed the feat to the tireless efforts of the university’s Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Smaranda Olarinde, and the commitment and dedication of staff as well as the cultured and ever-obedient students.

According to him, the Times Higher Education Impact Rankings of ABUAD are as follows: No. 84 in the world, No. 3 in Africa, No. 1 in Africa in SDG 7 (Affordable & Clean Energy) with a score of 83.3%, No. 1 in Africa in SDG 13 (Climate Change) with a score of 83.1%, No. 2 in Africa in SDG 1 (No Poverty) with a score of 87.9%, No. 3 in Africa in SDG 17 (Partnership for Goals) with a score of 92.4%, No. 1 in Nigeria for four consecutive years: 2022, 2023, 2024, and now 2025.
He continued, “No. 1 in Nigeria in SDG 1 (No Poverty) with a score of 87.9%, No. 1 in Nigeria in SDG 7 (Affordable & Clean Energy) with a score of 83.3%, No. 1 in Nigeria in SDG 13 (Climate Change) with a score of 83.1%, No. 1 in Nigeria in SDG 17 (Partnership for Goals) with a score of 92.4%.”
Ijabadeniyi said many factors contributed to the institution’s success story, some of which include: “The only fully residential university in Nigeria today, the first university in Nigeria to commence academic work on its permanent site, the university is reputed for having a serene and conducive learning environment, the university has students from all 36 states of the Federation, including the FCT, it also has students from some foreign countries, it has a well-planned landscape which enables seamless movement of students from the college areas to their hostels and facility areas, well-equipped modern laboratories and workshops as a result of which the Nigerian Society of Engineers acknowledged our College of Engineering as the ‘Template for Engineering Education in Nigeria’.”
Continuing, he said, “Full accreditation by NUC and professional bodies in all 44 programmes, including programmes in Engineering, Law, Medicine and Health Sciences, Pharmacy, Sciences, as well as Social & Management Sciences, ABUAD has the most advanced computational platform for drug design & research in Nigeria, it is mandatory for ABUAD students to obtain additional professional certification in Banking, Accounting, ICT, Marketing, ICAN, Computer Science, Engineering, Nursing Science, Medical Laboratory Science, and Arbitration while pursuing their undergraduate degrees, it is mandatory for ABUAD students to have a certificate of proficiency in one modern foreign language (Chinese or French) with a scholarship to study in China.”
He added, “The Institute of Government Research and Leadership Technology awarded ABUAD the Best Law Faculty Award in 2012, compulsory evening classes for students between 7–9 p.m., dress code for both students and staff (this is being emulated by other institutions of higher education in the country), regular and uninterrupted power supply from the university’s Independent Power Plant (IPP), which was commissioned on Monday, June 21, 2021, a university dam which ensures regular supply of water, predictable and stable academic calendar which enables students to graduate on time, a functional planetarium where all fresh students engage in space studies compulsorily without paying any fee. On account of the quality of education we offer in ABUAD, many of our students are offered direct admission to pursue their Ph.D. degrees without going through a Master’s programme.”

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He said other things that contributed to the outstanding milestone are: “ABUAD has been encouraging Nigerian youths to return to the farm, by reducing the school fees for students studying Agriculture by 50%. In addition, it gives seed money of N250,000 to every graduate in Agriculture from the university to start his own business upon graduation.

“Youth Empowerment Scheme, under which the university has trained over 1,000 youths and expended N186 million, while it has doled out the sum of N49,103,875 to people under the Entrepreneurship Scheme.
“A 124-unit Industrial Research Park designed to harmonise university education with industry, provide quality and functional education, provide opportunity for hi-tech scientists, innovators, inventors, geniuses, research, community service, stimulate economic development, and provide employment for university graduates, professionals, and artisans.
“The ultra-modern 400-bed ABUAD Multi-System Hospital, which leading healthcare stakeholders have acknowledged as the ‘most well-equipped hospital in Sub-Saharan Africa’.”
Expressing delight at the historic milestone, he said that the university will not rest on its oars but will continue in its determined effort to institutionalise quality and functional education and raise a new generation of transformational and impactful leaders in Nigeria and beyond.
He used the occasion to appeal to the Federal and Ekiti State governments to complement the efforts of Babalola and consider the reconstruction of Ado-Ijan Road and ensure the functionality of the Ekiti Cargo Airport.
“The role played by Aare Afe Babalola in the maintenance of the stretch of Ado-Ijan Road from St. Paul’s Church to this university between 2009 and 2019 is in the public domain.

“The same goes for the Ado-Ekiti Cargo Airport, where he has invested billions of Naira to make it functional.
“The maintenance of Ado-Ijan Road and the functionality of the Cargo Airport is certainly beyond his capacity, bearing in mind the quantum of projects he has embarked upon in the overall interest of the state.
“Because of this, the time has come for both the Federal and Ekiti State governments to see to the immediate reconstruction of the Ado-Ijan Road and the completion of the Ado-Ekiti Cargo Airport.
“If the university is more accessible, it will attract patronage from both local and international audiences, as a result of which it would win more laurels for the state and the nation at large.”

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Vermilion plane crash claims two lives – Edmonton Journal

Vermilion plane crash claims two lives – Edmonton Journal

Small plane crashes close to runway at Vermilion’s aerodrome
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A passenger and pilot were killed in a plane crash near Vermilion’s aerodrome just past noon Saturday.
RCMP responded to the scene, just 1.2 kilometres from the aerodrome’s runway.  The pilot, a 46-year-old woman from Slave Lake, and the passenger, a 76-year-old man from Mannville, did not survive the crash.
RCMP Cpl. Gina Slaney said police responded after witnesses in the area said they had seen a plane go down.
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Nic Defalco, spokesperson for the Transportation Safety Board of Canada, said that air-crash investigators have been dispatched, and would arrive at the crash scene some time Saturday evening.
“It’s too early to say anything about the incident,” said Defalco. Investigators can’t confirm if the plane was landing or taking off, or even the model of the aircraft.
“We are deploying investigators to the scene, and that’s basically where we’re at.”
The aerodrome has a single runway, at 966 metres long.
Vermilion is located 193 kilometres east of Edmonton.

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Iran: Govt provides update on evacuation of Nigerians, makes clarifications on ‘stranded’ citizens – Daily Post Nigeria

Iran: Govt provides update on evacuation of Nigerians, makes clarifications on ‘stranded’ citizens – Daily Post Nigeria

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The minister of Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Yusuf Tuggar, has dismissed as false narratives circulating on social media that Nigerian citizens have been abandoned in Iran as tension continues to rise in the region.
In a statement issued Saturday in Abuja by the Ministry’s spokesperson, Mr. Kimiebi Ebienfa, Tuggar characterized the reports as “misleading”, “untruthful” and “not founded.”
He made it clear that the Nigerian Embassy in Tehran is open and fully committed to the safety and welfare of Nigerian citizens living in Iran.
Contrary to the rumors that the embassy had closed down due to the ongoing conflict between Iran and Israel, the minister explained that while normal embassy business has been impaired due to continued threats to security and bombings in Tehran, staff at the embassy are still working remotely to continue to provide support.
Minister Tuggar also disclosed that the embassy is in communication with the Government of Armenia to arrange possible evacuation options through Yerevan for Nigerians, if the current situation deteriorates.
He called on Nigerian citizens living in Iran to relate with assigned community coordinators, consistently check real-time updates on the Iranian messaging app Eitaa, and contact the embassy through official emergency numbers and affixed emails, as shared by the embassy.
“The ministry remains vigilant in monitoring the situation and will continue to take all necessary measures to safeguard the interests of Nigerians worldwide,” the statement concluded.
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US updates: Federal appeals court reinstates Trump tariffs – dw.com

US updates: Federal appeals court reinstates Trump tariffs – dw.com

A US court has ruled that President Donald Trump overstepped his authority when imposing "Liberation Day" tariffs. But an appeals court later suspended the earlier judgment.
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Below you can read a roundup of news from the United States from Thursday, May 29, 2025:
And with those words from US President Donald Trump, we’re closing down these live updates that saw one court overturn the US leader’s sweeping tariffs, and, about 24 hours later, another court reinstate them. 
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US President Donald Trump criticized the trade court decision that said he had overstepped his authority by setting global tariffs.
“The ruling by the U.S. Court of International Trade is so wrong, and so political! Hopefully, the Supreme Court will reverse this horrible, Country threatening decision, QUICKLY and DECISIVELY,” he wrote on Truth Social, going on to question if the legal decision came out of “purely a hatred of ‘TRUMP.'”
The over 500-word post also claimed that tariffs had brought “many Trillions of dollars” into the US economy. No current economic analysis supports this claim.
The White House downplayed questions about its report on children’s health, but edited the document Thursday after authors listed in the paper confirmed it cited studies that do not exist.
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. released the “Make America Healthy Again” (MAHA) report on May 22, but authors and publishers of at least four studies listed in the original document told the AFP news agency they or their organizations were credited with papers they did not write — or that never existed.
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt described the mishaps as “formatting issues” during a press briefing Thursday.
The errors were first reported on Thursday by NOTUS, a US digital news website affiliated with the nonprofit Allbritton Journalism Institute.
Columbia University, the peer-reviewed journal JAMA Pediatrics, a professor Baylor College of Medicine, and the Virginia Commonwealth University said their work was incorrectly cited in the MAHA report or that the work cited did not exist.
Kennedy has promised to bring “radical transparency” and “gold-standard” science to the public health agencies.
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) declined to comment, referring questions from AFP to the White House. The White House declined to address whether artificial intelligence was used to draft the report, directing questions back to HHS.
US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Elon Musk did “very important work” in the Trump administration, adding that the so-called Department of Government Efficiency’s (DOGE) work would continue following the billionaire’s departure.
“DOGE is not going to end with Elon,” Bessent told the Fox News Channel. “It is a way of thinking about cutting costs, and it’s also a way of thinking about making the government more productive and more efficient. So I would expect that these would be the initial savings, and they will continue from here.”
Musk announced on Tuesday that his time as a government employee had come to an end (see earlier entry).
Kenneth Genalo, the head of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) removal division, and Robert Hammer, who runs ICE’s investigative arm, will be replaced, according to sources familiar with the matter.
Genalo will retire. Hammer will be reassigned, according to the department.
It has been rumored that the two were pushed out of their posts for failing to meet demands from the Trump administration that ICE triple the number of daily arrests it makes from 1,000 to 3,000.
The current number of deportations remains lower than those posted by Trump’s predecessor, Joe Biden.
A spokesperson for the Department of Homeland Security denied the men had been pushed out by the White House but gave no further information.
Trump’s deputy chief of staff, Stephen Miller, a hardline anti-immigrant figure within the US administration, reportedly railed at ICE officials last week, shouting at them over weak arrest numbers, according to White House sources.
ICE on Thursday said former Dallas field office director Marcos Charles would take over enforcement and removal operations, while Washington-based official Derek Gordon will be put in charge of investigations.
A global stock rally that kicked off earlier on Thursday when a federal judge blocked US President Donald Trump’s global tariff scheme stalled when the administration won a temporary lifting of the injunction at an appeals court.
The S&P 500 gave up more than half of its early gains at the end of trading Thursday, rising 0.4%. The Dow Jones index was up 0.3% and the NASDAQ composite was up 0.4%. That came after global stocks leapt nearly 2% in both Tokyo and Seoul. 
Uncertainty has plagued markets since Trump’s return to office, a phenomenon reflected in the latest US economic and employment data released by the Commerce and Labor Departments.
The Commerce Department projected that Q1 corporate profits in the US were down $118.1 billion (€103.8 billion), and that the economy shrank by 0.2% overall compared to Q1 2024 — the largest contraction in four years.
Those drops have led to higher US unemployment numbers, with analysts predicting more layoffs may be on the way due to the uncertainty sparked by Trump’s erratic economic and trade policies.
A federal appeals court reinstated the Trump administration’s sweeping tariffs on Thursday afternoon, a day after a trade court had blocked them and ruled that the president had overstepped his authority.
The United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit did not provide an opinion or reasoning as part of its ruling, which suspends the block on the “Liberation Day” tariffs imposed by the Court of International Trade in New York a day earlier.
The appeals court directed the plaintiffs to respond by June 5, and the Trump administration to respond by June 9.
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The White House reacted strongly rebuked a federal court’s decision to block many of President Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs, which has been seen as a setback to his trade strategy.
The White House called this ruling “blatantly wrong” on social media, expressing confidence that the decision would be overturned on appeal.
Trump’s trade adviser Peter Navarro also told Bloomberg Television: “Nothing’s really changed. If anybody thinks this caught the administration by surprise, think again.”
Attorneys for the Trump administration have filed an appeal against the ruling, which gave the White House 10 days to complete the process of halting affected tariffs. 
White House spokesman Kush Desai earlier said: “It is not for unelected judges to decide how to properly address a national emergency.”
An initial rally in various stock markets on Thursday eased off as uncertainty continued following a court ruling related to the global tariffs imposed by US President Donald Trump.
The ruling saw the stock markets in Tokyo and Seoul, which had the first chance to react, leap by almost 2%, after raising hopes in financial markets that a hamstrung Trump would not see the economy move into a recession with his desired tariffs.
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney welcomed the decision, saying it was “consistent with Canada’s longstanding position” that Trump’s tariffs were unlawful.
However, other US trading partners offered careful responses. The British government said the ruling was a domestic matter for the US administration and noted it was “only the first stage of legal proceedings.” 
Trump “is still able to impose significant and wide-ranging tariffs over the longer-term through other means,” according to Ulrike Hoffmann-Burchardi, chief investment officer of global equities at UBS Global Wealth Management.
China urged the United States on Thursday to completely drop all the tariffs that it has imposed since President Donald Trump took office in January after a US federal court blocked most of them from going into effect.
“China urges the United States to heed the rational voices from the international community and domestic stakeholders and fully cancel the wrongful unilateral tariff measures,” Commerce Ministry spokeswoman He Yongqian told a news conference. 
China has been a major target of US tariffs, with Trump recently raising them to 145% before pulling them back to 30% for 90 days of negotiation.
Most economists have said the sweeping levies ordered by Trump would be unlikely to produce the positive effects for the US economy that he has promised.
Beijing has condemned the US decision, announced on Wednesday, to revoke the visas of Chinese students.
“The US has unreasonably canceled Chinese students’ visas under the pretext of ideology and national rights,” Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Mao Ning said. “China firmly opposes this and has lodged representations with the US.”
Mao went on to say that the decision had “seriously damaged the legitimate rights and interests of Chinese students and disrupted the normal cultural exchanges between the two countries.”
“This political and discriminatory practice of the US has exposed the lies of the so-called freedom and openness that the US has always advertised, and further damaged the US’s own international image, national image and national credibility,” she said.
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Wednesday evening that visas for Chinese students would be “aggressively” revoked and future visa applications from China and Hong Kong subjected to enhanced scrutiny.
Chinese students are one of the largest sources of revenue for US universities, and make up roughly a quarter of all foreign students in the United States. Only India has a larger student contingent in the US.
The visa move seems in line with the Trump administration’s seemingly hostile attitude to US institutes of higher learning, which  it apparently sees as bastions of a liberal ideology that is at odds with its own agenda. 
The court ruling has invalidated with immediate effect all of the orders on tariffs given by Trump since January that took the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) as a justification.
Among other things, it applies to the sweeping import duties on most trading partners that Trump announced on April 2, which included tariffs at a baseline of 10% in addition to higher levies on dozens of economies, including China and the European Union.
Separate duties imposed by Trump on Canada, Mexico and China under the IEEPA have also been ruled invalid.
But US tariffs imposed on automobiles, steel and aluminum remain unaffected, as they were issued under a different statute.
There’s still uncertainty about what will happen next as the Trump adminstration, while already engaging in trade talks over the planned tariffs, lodges an appeal. 
“TACO trade” — with the acronym standing for “Trump Always Chickens Out” — is the term coined by Robert Armstrong from The Financial Times to denote US President Donald Trump‘s tactic of setting high tariff rates, then pulling back.
The term has reportedly spread on Wall Street, as investors and traders learned not to react quickly to his decisions, but rather wait and see if he walks back on them.
As could be expected, Trump himself is not pleased by the term, calling a reporter’s question as to whether he was indeed chickening out “nasty.”
“It’s called negotiation; you set a number,” Trump said.
Among other things, the president defended raising tariffs on Chinese goods to 145% before reducing them to 30% for 90 days to allow negotiations.
Trump claimed that his strategy has led to $14 billion (€12.4 billion) in new investment in the US, a figure that no economic data has so far fully substantiated.
“Don’t ever say what you said!” Trump told the reporter who asked him on Wednesday if TACO was a good description of his trade policy.
US President Donald Trump’s administration has canceled $766 million (€681 million) awarded to drugmaker Moderna Inc to develop an mRNA vaccine against potential pandemic influenza viruses, including the avian flu strain H5N1, the company said.
The cancelation is the latest anti-vaccine move by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who has long promoted misinformation about immunization and particulary mRNA vaccines, which were key to the fight against COVID-19.
The development by Moderna of a vaccine against H5N1 comes as experts warn that the strain, which has been circulating among birds and cattle, could jump to humans and trigger another pandemic.
As Moderna announced the cancelation of the federal funding, it also announced positive results from an early-stage clinical trial of the vaccine.
“While the termination of funding from HHS [Health and Human Services Department] adds uncertainty, we are pleased by the robust immune response and safety profile observed in this interim analysis of the Phase 1/2 study of our H5 avian flu vaccine, and we will explore alternative paths forward for the program,” said CEO Stephane Bancel in a statement. 
“These clinical data in pandemic influenza underscore the critical role mRNA technology has played as a countermeasure to emerging health threats,” he said.
During his first term in office, Trump backed the so-called Operation Warp Speed, a private-public partnership that aimed to facilitate the fast development of COVID-19 vaccines, among them the mRNA vaccines that Kennedy regards with suspicion.
Harvard University is due to hold its annual graduation ceremony Thursday as the storied Ivy League institute continues to contend with the punitive measures taken against itby President Donald Trump.
Dr. Abraham Verghese, a bestselling author and Stanford expert on infectious diseases, will be the principal speaker at what will be the university’s 374th commencement.
On Wednesday,  basketball star and human rights campaigner Kareem Abdul-Jabbar addressed the class of 2025 for Class Day, praising the university’s president, Alan Garber, for taking a stand against Trump.
“When a tyrannical administration tried to bully and threaten Harvard to give up their academic freedom and destroy free speech, Dr. Alan Garber rejected the illegal and immoral pressures the way Rosa Parks declined,” he said to applause.
Rosa Parks was a Black activist whose refusal to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama, in 1955 triggered a boycott that ultimately led to the desegregation of the city’s public transit services, which is seen as a watershed moment in the US civil rights movement.
Since taking office, Trump has sought to ban the university from having foreign students, canceled its contracts with the federal government and slashed grants worth millions of dollars, while accusing it of antisemitism and liberal bias.
All the measures are being challenged in court.
Harvard was founded in 1636, making it a century and a half older than the US itself.
Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel held the commencement speech at Harvard in 2019.

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​The University of Illinois-Deloitte Foundation Center for Business Analytics provides free online data analytics curriculum to help advance business education.
The University of Illinois-Deloitte Foundation Center for Business Analytics (“The Center”) was launched through a grant from the Deloitte Foundation to advance business analytics education by helping provide students with the data knowledge, skills, and abilities needed to become highly-trained business leaders. With curriculum designed by faculty at University of Illinois, Gies College of Business, The Center is a collaborative effort that brings together representatives from all of Deloitte’s businesses and the Deloitte Foundation to provide guidance through a practice lens and strengthen the connection between academia and the profession.
The modern world of accounting and business is changing rapidly. Data is everywhere, and that data is constantly changing. Accounting and business professionals use business analytics to answer complex questions. The data analytics curriculum can help prepare students to use data effectively today, but also help prepare them for a dynamic future.
The Center offers a variety of events that bring together scholars, practitioners, and regulators who present and provide feedback on timely topics.
 Auditor Risk Assessment: Hands-On Webinar Teaching Orientation
This 8-module Case Study can be used in Audit, Analytics or Risk courses to offer students simulated real-life audit experiences in the classroom. The Case Study reflects both the technical and soft skills future auditors will likely need and captures the many different aspects of the audit, from receiving a report from the client, to analyzing data, asking questions of the client, evaluating support, and documenting a risk assessment. The exercises relate to day-to-day activities that auditors perform to complete an audit, such as the creation of data visualizations, analyzing those visualizations, documenting a risk assessment, following-up with the client, and more.
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First course in Foundations of Data Analytics
The first course in Foundations of Data Analytics, rreleased in April 2019, is free, online and accessible to anyone who wants to leverage it for their educational mission. Each module contains multiple lessons and was designed by faculty at University of Illinois, Gies College of Business. The course consists of 60 hours of curriculum broken up into eight modules that can be used on their own or integrated into existing curriculum:
Second course in Foundations of Data Analytics
The eight modules in the second course in Foundations of Data Analytics, released in December 2019, will build a practical foundation for machine learning by teaching students basic tools and techniques that can scale to large computational systems and massive data sets. Topics include algorithms, overfitting and regularization, clustering, anomaly detection, and more:

Data Analytics Foundations for Accountancy I
Data Analytics Foundations for Accountancy I, released in June 2020, introduces students to the basic concepts needed to complete common data analytic tasks in accountancy and business in general. Students will learn to develop data analytic scripts by using the Python programming language and the standard data analytic Python modules, including Pandas, NumPy, SciPy, Matplotlib, and Seaborn:

Data Analytics Foundations for Accountancy II
Data Analytics Foundations for Accountancy II, builds upon concepts introduced in the first course to enable students to obtain, explore, and analyze richer and more complex data sets. Students will first learn how explore and analyze multi-dimensional data sets, before learning how to obtain text data embedded within websites and how to analyze text data by using standard Python techniques and regular expressions:
Content and materials were designed by faculty at University of Illinois, Gies College of Business. To access these courses, please visit the Courses in Foundations of Data Analytics page on The Center’s website. For more information on the Center, contact Kristy Chernick.

Data Analytics Case Studies
The Center offers three case studies developed by faculty at the University of Illinois’ Gies College of Business which are designed to identify and address applications of data analytics in today’s business environment. The cases can be inserted directly into data analytics curriculum and offer students the opportunity to use data in important and practical ways.
Topics covered in the case studies include customer segmentation, introduction to databases for accountants, data analysis, and web scraping using robot process automation.
Mini-Case Studies
The Center has also released five mini-case studies, which are designed to build up students’ understanding of a management control system (MCS) and their data analytics skills in investigating MCS-related issues. The five mini-case studies focus on the following areas:
Control Tools
Data Analytics Skills

Content and materials were designed by faculty at University of Illinois, Gies College of Business. To learn more and access the case studies, visit the Case Studies page on The Center’s website. For more information on the Center, contact Kristy Chernick.

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