Covenant encourages interdisciplinary approach to research and scholarship. Our researchers from different disciplines collaborate under different clusters to address key challenges facing the society both nationally and globally. The strategy has helped the University to identify its distinctive research competencies and platforms for the establishment of centres of excellence as well as the effective utilisation of research grants and findings.

Currently, Covenant has 17 active research clusters, each with sub-clusters reflecting their different agenda, themes and strands.

The clusters include:

• Applied Physics Cluster
• Bioinformatics
• Biotechnology
• Business, Entrepreneurship and Innovation
• Center for Economic Policy and Development Research (CEPDeR)
• Civil Environmental and Industrialisation
• Corrosion and Materials Science and Engineering
• Covenant University Public Health and Well-being
• Covenant University Women Development & Human Security Initiatives (CU-WDHSI)
• Environmental Sustainability Issues
• Gender, Peace and Conflict Resolution
• Hebron Start Up Lab
• Industrial Mathematics
• New Leadership Paradigm
• Plant Science
• Product Development
• Public Private Partnership