The Senate of the University of Ado-Ekiti (UNAD) approved the commencement of the SLT program in 1997 as a part-time program with a view to awarding national and higher national diplomas under the body of the Nigerian Institute of Science Laboratory Technology (NISLT) program.

The Senate also, at its 167^th regular meeting on Wednesday, June 25, 2008, ratified the conversion of the SLT program from a diploma certificate to a B.Sc. degree certificate.

At the 187^th regular meeting of the Senate held on August 25, 2010, the conversion to a full-time program of Science Laboratory Technology from part-time was approved.

The National University Commission, after a resource assessment visit, approved the establishment of the full-time mode of the SLT (B.Sc.) program effective from 2013/2014 admission, as per Ref NUC/05/395/Vol.5/151 dated February 19, 2013. Thus, the full-time program started with five options:

 (a)       Biological Science/Biotechnological Techniques

 (b)       Biochemistry Techniques

 (c)       Chemistry Techniques

 (d)      Physics/Electronics Techniques

 (e)       Geology/Mining Techniques