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Dennis Osadebe University, Asaba (DOU)
Project & SIWES Format Guide

The exact formatting DOU students are expected to follow -- fonts, margins, spacing, and reference style -- with the real faculty and department list, so you know your document will be built right the first time.

What UniDraft builds for DOU

All three document types are supported. Where DOU’s exact format has been added to our catalog, the specifics below are real -- not estimated.

  • General guidance

    IT / SIWES Report

    Industrial training and SIWES report documentation.

    • Body fontTimes New Roman, 12pt
    • Line spacing1.5 lines
    • Reference styleAPA (most common)

    General Nigerian university convention -- until your exact department template is added, UniDraft applies your supervisor’s and department’s specific instructions on top of this baseline.

  • General guidance

    Seminar Report

    Academic seminar report documentation.

    • Body fontTimes New Roman, 12pt
    • Line spacing1.5 lines
    • Reference styleAPA (most common)

    General Nigerian university convention -- until your exact department template is added, UniDraft applies your supervisor’s and department’s specific instructions on top of this baseline.

  • General guidance

    Final Year Project

    Final-year project and thesis-style documentation.

    • Body fontTimes New Roman, 12pt
    • Line spacing1.5 lines
    • Reference styleAPA (most common)

    General Nigerian university convention -- until your exact department template is added, UniDraft applies your supervisor’s and department’s specific instructions on top of this baseline.

Read the full DOU SIWES report guide

DOU at a glance

  • 9 faculties and 86 departments are in UniDraft's catalog for DOU, the largest being Faculty of Science with 18 departments.
  • No DOU-specific formatting is on file yet, so documents start from the general Nigerian tertiary baseline (Times New Roman 12pt, 1.5 spacing, APA) and adopt your department's and supervisor's instructions as you supply them.
  • Faculties covered: Faculty of Agriculture, Faculty of Allied Health Sciences, Faculty of Arts, Faculty of Behavioural Sciences, Faculty of Computing, Faculty of Environmental Sciences, Faculty of Law, Faculty of Management Sciences, Faculty of Science.
  • Official website: dou.edu.ng. Check it, or your department, for the current handbook.

What your department type means for your DOU report

These notes are general guidance by discipline, matched to the departments listed for DOU. They are not DOU rules; your supervisor’s and department’s instructions always take priority.

Management and social sciences

25 departments listed: Agribusiness, Philosophy (Philosophy, Politics, and Economics), Criminology and Security Studies, Economics and others.

Projects in these departments are usually survey-based studies, so the questionnaire, the sample size and the choice of statistical test become the parts supervisors examine most closely.

APA is the most common style in management and social science departments. Related reading: the accounting and business SIWES report guide and how to design a questionnaire.

Natural and physical sciences

21 departments listed: Home Science, Library and Information Science, Political Science, Environmental Management and others.

Science projects are usually laboratory, field or survey studies that report methods, results tables and statistics. Formulas, units and species names need careful formatting, and the results chapter must match what your methodology says you did.

APA is common in many science departments, but some follow another style, so confirm yours. Related reading: formatting chemical formulas and species names and choosing a statistical test.

Health and medical sciences

12 departments listed: Environmental Health Science, Health Information Management, Healthcare Administration and Hospital Management, Human Anatomy and others.

Health-related departments often work under clinical or community placement arrangements of their own and follow a structured health-research format, with ethical approval where human participants are involved. Ask your department what applies to your programme.

APA and Vancouver are both used in health programmes; confirm which your department expects. Related reading: seminar topics for nursing and public health students and validity and reliability of questionnaires.

Arts, humanities and law

8 departments listed: Creative Arts (Visual Arts, Music, Theatre Arts), English and Literary Studies, French, History, Strategic and International Studies and others.

Arts, humanities and law projects tend to be text-based, analytical or doctrinal, built on sources, cases or texts rather than measured data. The literature review often carries more of the argument than it does in a laboratory project.

Styles vary widely here: some departments use APA, others MLA or Chicago, and some law departments use OSCOLA. Confirm yours. Related reading: how to write the literature review and how to write the references list.

Faculties & departments at DOU

UniDraft routes your document through your specific department’s rules on top of the university baseline above.

  • Faculty of Agriculture

    • Agribusiness
    • Agricultural Economics
    • Agricultural Extension and Rural Development
    • Animal Science and Production
    • Crop Science and Farm Management
    • Fisheries and Aquaculture
    • Home Science
    • Soil and Land Resource Management

  • Faculty of Allied Health Sciences

    • Environmental Health Science
    • Health Information Management
    • Healthcare Administration and Hospital Management
    • Human Anatomy
    • Human Nutrition and Dietetics
    • Human Physiology
    • Medical Lab Science
    • Nursing Science
    • Optometry
    • Pharmacology
    • Public Health

  • Faculty of Arts

    • Creative Arts (Visual Arts, Music, Theatre Arts)
    • English and Literary Studies
    • French
    • History, Strategic and International Studies
    • Philosophy (Philosophy, Politics, and Economics)
    • Religious Studies

  • Faculty of Behavioural Sciences

    • Criminology and Security Studies
    • Economics
    • Film and Multi-Media Studies
    • International Relations
    • Journalism and Media Studies
    • Library and Information Science
    • Mass Communication
    • Peace and Conflict Resolution
    • Political Science
    • Psychology
    • Public Administration
    • Sociology

  • Faculty of Computing

    • Computer Science
    • Cyber Security
    • Data Science
    • Information Technology
    • Software Engineering

  • Faculty of Environmental Sciences

    • Architecture
    • Building
    • Environmental Management
    • Estate Management
    • Fine and Applied Arts
    • Geography
    • Industrial Design
    • Quantity Surveying
    • Surveying and Geo-Informatics
    • Urban and Regional Planning

  • Faculty of Law

    • Law

  • Faculty of Management Sciences

    • Accounting
    • Actuarial Science
    • Aviation Management
    • Banking and Finance
    • Business Information Management
    • Business Management
    • Employment Relations and Human Resource Management
    • Entrepreneurship
    • Finance
    • Hospitality and Tourism Studies
    • Insurance
    • Management
    • Marketing
    • Petroleum Information Management
    • Transport Management

  • Faculty of Science

    • Animal and Environmental Biology (AEB)
    • Applied Geophysics
    • Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
    • Biotechnology
    • Chemistry
    • Environmental Management and Toxicology
    • Geology
    • Geology and Mining
    • Industrial Chemistry
    • Industrial Mathematics
    • Marine Science
    • Mathematics
    • Medical Physics
    • Microbiology
    • Physics
    • Physics with Electronics
    • Plant Science and Biotechnology
    • Statistics

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Frequently asked questions

What format does DOU require for a final year project?

DOU's exact department-level format isn't in our catalog yet, so the specifics above are the general Nigerian tertiary-institution convention (Times New Roman 12pt, 1.5 spacing, APA references). UniDraft still applies your supervisor's and department's specific instructions when you write with us.

What should DOU students in management and social sciences expect from a project?

Projects in these departments are usually survey-based studies, so the questionnaire, the sample size and the choice of statistical test become the parts supervisors examine most closely. APA is the most common style in management and social science departments. This is general guidance for the discipline, not a DOU rule, so your supervisor's instructions win.

Does UniDraft support SIWES/IT reports for DOU?

Yes. IT/SIWES reports, final year projects, and seminar reports are all supported. See the DOU SIWES guide for report-specific structure.

Is this list of faculties and departments official?

This list reflects 86 departments across 9 faculties in UniDraft's catalog for DOU, used to route your document to the right department-level rules. If your department is missing or misspelled, you can still enter it by hand when you start a document.

How does UniDraft know my supervisor's specific instructions?

You tell it. Supervisor and department instructions always take priority over the university-wide baseline shown above -- UniDraft layers your specific rules on top before generating anything.