The Faculty of Biological Sciences (FBS) is one of the ten Academic Faculties in Ebonyi State University. It is located within the Presco Campus of the Ebonyi State University, along Abakaliki-Enugu Express Road, a distance of about one kilometer from the city centre of Abakaliki town.

The Faculty of Management and Social Sciences was among the four additional faculties created in 1999 when the then Ebonyi State University College was upgraded to a full-fledged conventional University. By then, the faculty had nine departments including Accountancy, Banking & Finance, Management, Public Administration, Economics, Mass Communication, Political Science, Psychology, and Sociology/Anthropology. The tenth department, marketing, was introduced later in the year 2000.

Consequently, established needs led to the splitting of the Faculty of Management and Social Science into, with the faculty of Management Science housing the following five departments:

i.             Accountancy

ii.            Banking and Finance

iii.          Business Management

iv.          Marketing, and