66,000 Candidates To Hustle For UNN 9,000 Admission Capacity

Reports released by the Joint Admission and Matriculation
Board (JAMB) shows that 65, 954 first choice candidates
will be writing the University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN)
2016/2017 academic session aptitude test.

That would generate about N330,000,000 million for an
institution that charges N5,000 administrative fee per
individual candidate for the test.
But the university cannot admit more than 9,000 applicants
in all its programmes. An administrative staff member at
the university said “It is an impossibility to assume that all
the candidates will be admitted.”

A breakdown of the data 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.

Last year, JAMB had in a bid to addressing this admission
imbalance redistributed candidates with uncompetitive
scores to other universities where they would have chances
of gaining but was severely criticized by both parents and
stakeholders for arbitrariness.

But JAMB had insisted the decision was based on the need
to supply other universities with a number of applicants less
than their capacity with more candidates. source>>>