2014

15 Apr 2014

The IOU was given a license to operate as an online university in the Gambia from the Ministry of Higher Education, Research, Science and Technology in the Gambia.

A Memorandum of Understanding was signed with the College of Sharee’ah and Islamic Studies at Kuwait University. The IOU also introduced new departments: Department of Education, Department of Islamic Economics, Department of Islamic Economics, Banking and Finance, and Department of Psychology and a new department of Arabic Language and Linguistics was launched. The IOU also introduced a BA in Islamic Studies in Russian, an Ijazah program and a prison initiative. IOU’s Android App was also launched in 2014.