Students from Nubian American Advanced College (NAAC) in Lagos, Nigeria, will be eligible to transfer to SU after two years of study at NAAC thanks to a recent agreement signed by SU President Carolyn Ringer Lepre and NAAC President Joseph Isaac.
NAAC is a tertiary education provider resetting the basis for higher learning by pioneering the American community college system in Nigeria. Nubian American and SU agreed to a transfer protocol that allows future students to begin their studies at NAAC’s main campus in Lagos and transfer up to 60 credits toward a B.A. or B.S. at SU.
“SU is proud to be collaborating in this way for the first time with a Nigerian institution that offers an American-style, two-year community college degree,” said Dr. Brian Stiegler, SU assistant provost for international education. “SU has had great success with similar agreements in China, Myanmar, and Sri Lanka. The growth in the higher education sector in Nigeria in recent years makes this new partnership a valuable asset both to NAAC and SU.”
Isaac, a graduate of Morgan State University, visited Salisbury to sign the agreement and to meet with key academic leaders on campus.
During SU’s most recent application cycle, its Janet Dudley-Eshbach Center for International Education received almost 200 undergraduate applications from potential students in Nigeria and Ghana, making up 39% of the applications from international students for Salisbury’s undergraduate program.
Pictured at top: SU President Carolyn Ringer Lepre and Nubian American Advanced College (NAAC) President Joseph Isaac sign an agreement making NAAC students eligible to transfer to SU.