Umaru Musa Yar’adua University (UMYU) was established in the year 2006 as the Katsina State University by the Katsina State Government. Importantly, it was conceived to serve as a nucleus for socio-economic and political development of the state through – among other means – the provision of highly skilled human resources and research output. From inception, the institution was expected to offer conventional educational system and distance learning mode. In its almost two decades of existence, it houses fifty one (51) undergraduate and fifty two (52) graduate programmes across eight Faculties (Natural & Applied Sciences, Humanities, Education, Social Sciences, Management Sciences, Law, Agriculture, and Earth & Environmental Science) and College of Health Sciences and College of Postgraduate Studies. As at the end of the 2023 academic session, the total student population stood at about 13,000, cutting across full-time and part-time undergraduate and graduate students.