Positive assessments of the state of affairs in a society or an institution are often rationalised, erroneously, in terms of the availability of cash or skilled manpower. The many communities that are anaemic in spite of their almost limitless supply of cash and manpower suggests that brute resources alone do not transform; the management of talent, capital, attitudes and the like is indispensable.

The Faculty of Social Sciences was founded in 1976 precisely to offer training in husbandry, particularly from the standpoint of national developmental goals. In the four Departments of the Faculty, namely Geography, Political Science and Sociology and Anthropology students are taught to understand and manage talent, materials and phenomena within a system of forces that may be centripetal or centrifugal.

Apart from the huge numbers of post secondary students it admits yearly, Social Sciences is the University Faculty that has on its roll the highest number of practising doctors, engineers, lawyers and other professionals, all receiving complementary education on the deployment of their technical expertise in a real-world environment.

The Faculty runs the following degree and non-degree programmes:

Department of Goegraphy
B.Sc. Geography

M.Sc. Geography, with specialization in:
Geomorphology
Climatology
Economic and Social Geography
Resources and Development
Postgraduate Diploma in Environmental Management (PGDEM)

Department of Political Science
B.Sc. Political Science

M.Sc. Political Science, with specialization in:
International Relations
Comparative Politics
Political Theory

Ph.D. in Political Science

Department of Sociology and Anthropology
B.Sc. Sociology

Master's in Industrial and Labour Relations (MILR)

Postgraduate diploma in Industrial and Labour Relations (PGDIR)