Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka has applied to the National
Universities Commission, NUC, for approval to admit about 9,000 fresh
students in the next academic session .
Vice-Chancellor of the university, Prof Boniface Egboka, at a
briefing described as pitiable, a situation where out of over 80,000
candidates who participated in the post-UTME and were qualified to gain
admission, only about 3,700 would be admitted.
According to him, the institution had been following strictly the
admission guidelines of 60:40 for science and arts courses as directed
by the Federal Government, as well as the stipulated percentages
for merit, catchment and disadvantaged areas, but insisted that there
was need to give the youths who desire tertiary education more
opportunities.
Using the faculties of medicine and law as examples, Egboka said out
of the 2,000 candidates that scored up to 291 in the matriculation
examination and were qualified to study medicine and surgery, only 100
would make it, while only 180 students would be admitted for law out of
3000 that scored above 280.
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