Kaduna Polytechnic, Kaduna

Kaduna Polytechnic (Kadpoly) is a federal polytechnic in Kaduna, Kaduna State, northern Nigeria. It grew out of the Kaduna Technical Institute of 1956 and is regarded within Nigeria as one of the country's largest higher institutions outside Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, and as the largest technical institution in Africa. Its crest, the spider and its web (Gizogizo), stands for sharpness, industry and tenacity, and the hexagonal shape recalls the six northern states that originally owned the institution.

The polytechnic is built on four campuses, each described as being as large as many other higher institutions in Nigeria. It has more than 138 programmes in 44 academic departments, organised in seven colleges: Business and Management Studies (Unguwan Rimi), Administrative Studies and Social Sciences (Sabon Tasha), Engineering (Tudun Wada), Environmental Studies (Barnawa), Science and Technology (Tudun Wada), Technical and Vocational Education (Main Campus) and Preliminary and Remedial Studies (Tudun Wada).

Programmes run from IJMB (Arts, Science, Social Science) through National Diploma (ND), Higher National Diploma (HND) and NCE (in Chemistry, Integrated Science, Mathematics, Physics and Biology education) to a Diploma in Health Information Management. Many ND and HND courses are offered in both Regular and Evening modes, with Direct entry streams for some NDs. Fields include accounting, banking and finance, architecture, building, quantity surveying, estate management, surveying and geoinformatics, mass communication, computer science, agricultural and bio-environmental engineering, chemical, civil, electrical and electronic, mechanical, metallurgical, foundry, polymer, renewable energy and railway engineering technology, food technology, nutrition and dietetics, hospitality and tourism, library and information science, printing and textile technology, crime management, and procurement and supply chain management.

The Rector is the chief executive, assisted by a Management Committee that includes the Deputy Rector, Registrar, Bursar, Polytechnic Librarian, College Directors, the Director of Medical and Health Services, the Director of Works and the Director of the Centre of Technology Entrepreneurship Education and Development (CTEED). Kadpoly Consult is the institution's consultancy arm. The student body is cosmopolitan, drawing on all parts of Nigeria and other countries. Digital services include a CISCO Networking Academy, the ODFeL open distance flexible e-learning platform, an alumni portal and an online payment and admissions system.

The Polytechnic is a federal institution, taken over by the Federal Government on 27 August 1991 under Decree No. 40 of that year, and is a beneficiary of TETFund.