The Department of Political Science and Public Administration was established in February 2002 when Benson Idahosa University was granted license by the National Universities Commission (NUC) to operate as a full-fledged private university. The Department started as Department of Political Science and Public Administration, Sociology and Anthropology with the Department of Sociology and anthropology becoming autonomous in 2005. The Department of Political Science and Public Administration has grown in length and breadth. Its first set of graduates graduated in the 2004/2005 session with three students, who were Public Administration students of the Christian Faith University (CFU) affilliated to the Ambrose Alli University, Ekpoma. It is on record that the Christian Faith University (CFU) metamorphosed into the Benson Idahosa University in 2002. The Department which graduates students annually since the 2004/2005 session also run post-graduate programmes with its maiden post-graduate students graduating in 2011/2012 academic session. The post-graduate programmes are M.Sc. Public Administration, Master of Public Administration (MPA) and the post-graduate Diploma in Public Administration (PGDPA). The growth and expansion in the Department is also reflected in the increased academic staff strength from six (6) in 2002 to eleven (11) in the 2012/2013 session. Three of the academic staff are on the Professorial rank with four Senior Lecturers, one Lecturer Grade I, two Lecturers Grade II and one Assistant Lecturer.