66,000 Candidates Jostle for UNN’s 9,000 Admission Slots
By Correspondent
The data released by the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) shows that 65, 954 first choice candidates will be writing the University of Nigeria, Nsukka’s 2016/2017 academic session aptitude test.
The institution would automatically generate about N330,000,000 million from the N5,000 administrative fee per individual candidate scheduled to write the test.Meanwhile, the university can only admit 9,000 applicants in all its programmes.According to an administrative staff at the university, “It is an impossibility to assume that all the candidates will be admitted.”A cursory look into the process shows that the department of Medicine and Surgery, for example, which usually admits 130 to 150 students; had 11,146 applications while the Faculty of Law with an admission quota of about 200 received 6,560 applications.In the first place, JAMB’s excuse for redistributed candidates with uncompetitive scores to other universities where they would have chances of gaining admission was to avoid imbalance in the entire process; which was severely criticised by both parents and stakeholders for arbitrariness.The body still insists that the decision was based on the need to supply other universities with a number of applicants less than their capacity with more candidates.Discover more from NewsBreakers
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