Plateau State Polytechnic

Plateau State Polytechnic is a state-owned polytechnic in Plateau State, Nigeria, commonly called Plateau State Polytechnic, Barkin Ladi. It began as a College of Technology in 1978 and became a polytechnic in 1980. Its founding goals are to provide instruction, training and research in technology, the sciences and the humanities, to run in-service courses for public servants, and to promote local technology and the adoption of appropriate technologies.

The Polytechnic operates on two campuses: the main campus at Heipang, Barkin Ladi Local Government Area, and the Jos campus at Hwolshe, beside the National Library in Jos.

Teaching is organised in eight schools: Administration and Business Studies; General Studies; Engineering Technology; Environmental Studies; Science and Technology; Technical Education; Information and Communication; and Innovation Technology and Entrepreneurial Studies. Together they offer 23 HND, 27 ND, 12 diploma, 1 remedial science and technology, 1 Pre-NCE (Technical) and 5 NCE (Technical) programmes.

Departments include Accounting, Banking and Finance, Public Administration, Civil, Electrical/Electronics, Mechanical, Computer, Mineral and Petroleum Resources, Metallurgical, Foundry and Agricultural and Bio-Environmental Engineering, Urban and Regional Planning, Quantity Surveying, Building Technology, Estate Management and Valuation, Hospitality Management, Leisure and Tourism, Statistics, Food Science, Science Laboratory Technology, Legal Studies, Mass Communication, Library and Information Science and Computer Science. A Human Resource Development Centre runs professional diploma programmes such as Professional Accounting and Audit, Management Studies and Entrepreneurship Studies.

The Polytechnic Library offers print collections, e-resources, research support, information literacy training and study spaces, and the institution has an ICT Directorate, a sports and games unit and an elected Student Union Government. Departments publish journal articles through an academic journals listing.