Africa Regional Centre for Information Science (ARCIS) of the University of Ibadan has been renamed Department of Data and Information Sciences (DDIS). The new department however subsumes a new ARCIS which is now research-focussed arm of the department. DDIS is located in the Faculty of Multidisciplinary Studies, a new faculty created by the university to provide host to existing multidisciplinary programmes. DDIS will continue to award the doctoral, master's and MPhil degrees in Information Science. The Master of Information Resources Management (M.I.R.M.) programme will also continue to run. In response to the need to cater for rapidly emerging issues in the information society, ARCIS is also mounting an academic master's degree programme in Data Analytics and a PGD in Natural Language Processing.
