Abia State Polytechnic, Aba

Ogbonnaya Onu Polytechnic, Aba (earlier Abia State Polytechnic) is a state-owned polytechnic in Abia State, south-eastern Nigeria. Its mandate is to produce sound graduates and to provide studies, research, training and development of techniques in the applied arts and sciences, technology, management, commerce and other fields of learning. Its vision is to be the best polytechnic in Nigeria and a centre of excellence for producing highly skilled manpower for national development.

Teaching is organised into five schools: Business and Management, Engineering and Technology, Environmental Design and Technology, Science and Industrial Technology, and General Studies and Communication Technology. A Centre for Evening Programme and Continuing Education admits to Ordinary National Diploma (OND) and Higher National Diploma (HND) programmes in the departments of the schools, for working people who are free in the evenings, and also provides remedial studies.

Departments include Accountancy, Banking and Finance, Marketing and Public Administration; Civil, Mechanical, Computer and Welding and Fabrication Engineering and Mechatronics; Architecture, Building Technology, Quantity Surveying, Estate Management, Surveying and Geoinformatics and Urban and Regional Planning; Computer Science, Statistics, Food Science and Technology, Science Laboratory Technology and Hospitality Management Technology; and Mass Communication, Mathematics and Languages and Communication.

The polytechnic has an elected Student Union Government, a Librarian-led library service, and benefits from Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) annual and special interventions covering areas such as academic buildings, staff training, library development, ICT support and institution-based research.