General jamb entry requirements
In addition to the specific entry requirements into each faculty or department, the following are the general entry requirements approved for the admission into first degree courses for both UME and Direct Entry candidates.
Applicants must write the universities Matriculation Examination (UME) and attain an acceptable standard in the use of English (compulsory) and three subjects relevant to the proposed course of study
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Candidate must in addition to attaining an acceptable standard in the university Matriculation Examination obtain one of the following qualifications
(a) National Examination Council (NECO)/ West African Examinations Council (WAEC) Senior School Certificate (SSC)/ General Certificate of Education Ordinary level(SSC/GCE O/Level) or equivalents with credit passes in Five(5) subjects relevant to the course and obtained at not more than two sitting; except where otherwise specified.
(b) Grade 2 teacher’s certificate (TC11) with credit or merit passes in at least five(5) subjects. PLEASE NOTE THAT TC11 IS NOT ACCEPTABLE FOR SOME COURSES IN SOME UNIVERSITIES.
(c) National Technical Certificate (NTC), National Business Certificate with Credit passes in five(5) subjects relevant to the course and obtained at not more than two sittings. For the purpose of NTC/NBC, a credit in any General Education Subjects, trade related subjects and trade component subjects is relevant to a credit in a subject.
(d) A credit pass in Mathematics is required for all Science based and Social science Courses except where it is stated otherwise.
(e) A credit pass in English Language is required for all courses except where it is stated otherwise
(f) Please note that a matriculated student in Any University is not eligible to sit for the University Matriculation Examination (UME) except those who are transferring from foreign Universities.
ENTRY BY DIRECT APPLICATION (DE) (2/3/4/5- year degree programme).
Applicants with one of the following qualifications may be considered for admission by direct entry:
(a) A minimum of five (5) subjects passed at not more than two sittings with at least two at the principal or advanced level of the GCE and the others, at credit level of the SSC/GCE O/Level, NTC/NBC. No subject shall be counted at both Ordinary and Advanced Levels.
(b) Passes in two major subjects in the NCE with SSC O/Level, NTC/NBC credits or equivalents in THREE other subjects (mainly for Education Courses). Education may be accepted as a third A/level subject for those taking courses in Education
(c) Two passes at IJMB examination or Cambridge moderated Schools of Basic Studies terminal examination or international Baccalaureate from recognized institutions with SSCE/GCE O/Level,NTC/NBC credits or equivalents in three other subjects (SUBJECT TO UNIVERSITY REQUIREMENTS)
FIRST DEGREE HOLDERS
A limited number of good first degree holders who have completed the National Youth Service Corps Programme may be accepted by some universities into the Law and Medical Science Programmes. The following Universities will accept candidates with first class/ second class upper degree for Law or Medical Science Programmes.
(a) Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-ife
(b) University of Benin, Benin –City
(c) University of Calabar, Calabar
(d) University of Ibadan, Ibadan
(e) University of Lagos, Lagos
(f) University of Nigeria, Nsukka
(g) Ambrose Alli University, Ekpoma
(h) University of Ilorin
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Great Ife
Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria is a government-owned and operated Nigerian university, The university is located in the ancient city of Ile-Ife, Osun State, Nigeria. The university was founded in 1962 as the University of Ife, and was renamed Obafemi Awolowo University in May 1987 in honor of Obafemi Awolowo (1909-1987), the first Nigerian premier of the Western Region of Nigeria who was also the university's founding statesman and first Chancellor.
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History
The decision to establish the then University of Ife by the ruling Action Group party of the Western Region of Nigeria was in protest to the reccomendations of the Ashby commission . The first Nigerian university was established in 1948 at Ibadan, in the Western region as an external college of the university of London. However, the needs of the country, Nigeria ( then a British colony) far outstriped the manpower productivity of the only university. In particular the University College at Ibadan had no faculty of Engineering or technology, no Law school, no Pharmacy school or management training disciplines. The Ashby commission set up by the erstwhile colonial master, the British was to review tertiary educational needs of the soon to be independent nation of Nigeria. In 1959, the Ashby commission recommended additional ( regional) universities in the Northern, and Eastern regions of Nigeria, and another Federal university in the Lagos protectorate, but none in the more educationally advanced Western Region which also had a 'free and universal primary education' program.The government of the Western region did not want to rely on the Federal universities or those of other regions to admit its populous secondary school leavers. The protest foundation of the university at Ife, was not only in rebuttal to the perceived politicization of higher educational opportunities in Nigeria and the Western region, but also designed to fill the gaps in the projected manpower needs of Nigeria. Ife started the first Facuty of pharmacy in West Africa, the first Department of Chemical Engineering and the first Electronics component in addition to Electrical engineering. Its medical school started with an integrated curriculum and community orientation ( which was later adopted by the World Health Organization) and a compulsory baccalaureat ( BSc honors) before entrance to the clinical school, but this was later jettisoned.
The First Vice-Chancellor of the new university was Professor Oladele Ajose ( MD, PhD)a Glasgow University graduate and Nigeria's first professor of public health recruited from the University of Ibadan. He served from 1962-1966, until political upheavals and military coups led him to be replaced in 1966. The second Vice-Chancllor was Professor HA Oluwasanmi who served from 1966-1975. Graduates of Ife have gone on to excel at the most selective universities internationally, especially in Britain, Europe and America. Many graduates and staff of Ife university hold tenured faculty positions in many American ( USA) universities, including the most selective in different fields. They have also been recipients of a wide array of competitive prizes, awards and distinctions. Ife medical students /alumni have achieved perfect scores in the USMLE examinations, and attained the highest pass rates outside the US in the pharmacy board exams ( referenced needed). Nigeria's only Nobel prize winner ( in literature) Wole Soyinka, served as Professor of Comparative literature at the University of Ife, and is currently an Emeritus Profesor of Dramatic Arts in the university. The motto of the university is " For learning and culture". However, owing to the rigorous and exacting academic standards, students have parodied this motto to "for learning and torture". In terms of research productivity, Ife is consistently ranked as the most productive university in Nigeria by the National Universities Commission ( NUC) and by Shangai University World rankings as it relates to Africa. Ife has consistently attracted the youngest and brightest Nigerian students because for a long time it had no lower age limit for admission. Total enrollment is about 12,000 for undergraduates and 6,000 for graduate studies of different kinds. The major halls of undergraduate residences are for males Fajuyi, Awolowo, and Angola. For women, separate halls of residence exists and are Moremi and Mozambique halls. A sports hall complex, and Post-graduate hall also exist to meet specific needs of University sports people/athletes, and post-graduate students respectively.
The Ife campus is famously regarded as "Africa's most beautiful campus", the university is endowed with a beautiful architectural masterpiece and an eye catching landscape esconced on about 5,000 acres of a total of 13,000 acres of the land owned by the university.. Ife campus is a minicity and highly computerized and linked to the internet. It has a very strong Department of Computer Engineering and Information technology. {Fact|date=March 2008}} The university has also remained consistently one of the best in Nigeria.[citation needed]
The university has active alumni groups outside Nigeria the foremost being the Great Ife Alumni Association of the United States of America, headquartered in Houston, Texas, which spearheaded the now traditional biennial reunions of the alumni for the primary purpose of raising funds for the development of the alma mater.
Obafemi Awolowo University offers undergraduate and post-graduate programmes in various fields of specialization spanning the humanities, the arts, the natural sciences, the social sciences, the medical sciences, engineering and technology.
The university currently has 13 faculties, and two colleges - the Postgraduate College and the College of Health Sciences, administered in more than 60 departments
Notable alumni
Ibiyinka Alao (Artist)[1]
Obafemi Martins (Professional Footballer)
N.B Visit www.campusflava.com for other updates
History
The decision to establish the then University of Ife by the ruling Action Group party of the Western Region of Nigeria was in protest to the reccomendations of the Ashby commission . The first Nigerian university was established in 1948 at Ibadan, in the Western region as an external college of the university of London. However, the needs of the country, Nigeria ( then a British colony) far outstriped the manpower productivity of the only university. In particular the University College at Ibadan had no faculty of Engineering or technology, no Law school, no Pharmacy school or management training disciplines. The Ashby commission set up by the erstwhile colonial master, the British was to review tertiary educational needs of the soon to be independent nation of Nigeria. In 1959, the Ashby commission recommended additional ( regional) universities in the Northern, and Eastern regions of Nigeria, and another Federal university in the Lagos protectorate, but none in the more educationally advanced Western Region which also had a 'free and universal primary education' program.The government of the Western region did not want to rely on the Federal universities or those of other regions to admit its populous secondary school leavers. The protest foundation of the university at Ife, was not only in rebuttal to the perceived politicization of higher educational opportunities in Nigeria and the Western region, but also designed to fill the gaps in the projected manpower needs of Nigeria. Ife started the first Facuty of pharmacy in West Africa, the first Department of Chemical Engineering and the first Electronics component in addition to Electrical engineering. Its medical school started with an integrated curriculum and community orientation ( which was later adopted by the World Health Organization) and a compulsory baccalaureat ( BSc honors) before entrance to the clinical school, but this was later jettisoned.
The First Vice-Chancellor of the new university was Professor Oladele Ajose ( MD, PhD)a Glasgow University graduate and Nigeria's first professor of public health recruited from the University of Ibadan. He served from 1962-1966, until political upheavals and military coups led him to be replaced in 1966. The second Vice-Chancllor was Professor HA Oluwasanmi who served from 1966-1975. Graduates of Ife have gone on to excel at the most selective universities internationally, especially in Britain, Europe and America. Many graduates and staff of Ife university hold tenured faculty positions in many American ( USA) universities, including the most selective in different fields. They have also been recipients of a wide array of competitive prizes, awards and distinctions. Ife medical students /alumni have achieved perfect scores in the USMLE examinations, and attained the highest pass rates outside the US in the pharmacy board exams ( referenced needed). Nigeria's only Nobel prize winner ( in literature) Wole Soyinka, served as Professor of Comparative literature at the University of Ife, and is currently an Emeritus Profesor of Dramatic Arts in the university. The motto of the university is " For learning and culture". However, owing to the rigorous and exacting academic standards, students have parodied this motto to "for learning and torture". In terms of research productivity, Ife is consistently ranked as the most productive university in Nigeria by the National Universities Commission ( NUC) and by Shangai University World rankings as it relates to Africa. Ife has consistently attracted the youngest and brightest Nigerian students because for a long time it had no lower age limit for admission. Total enrollment is about 12,000 for undergraduates and 6,000 for graduate studies of different kinds. The major halls of undergraduate residences are for males Fajuyi, Awolowo, and Angola. For women, separate halls of residence exists and are Moremi and Mozambique halls. A sports hall complex, and Post-graduate hall also exist to meet specific needs of University sports people/athletes, and post-graduate students respectively.
The Ife campus is famously regarded as "Africa's most beautiful campus", the university is endowed with a beautiful architectural masterpiece and an eye catching landscape esconced on about 5,000 acres of a total of 13,000 acres of the land owned by the university.. Ife campus is a minicity and highly computerized and linked to the internet. It has a very strong Department of Computer Engineering and Information technology. {Fact|date=March 2008}} The university has also remained consistently one of the best in Nigeria.[citation needed]
The university has active alumni groups outside Nigeria the foremost being the Great Ife Alumni Association of the United States of America, headquartered in Houston, Texas, which spearheaded the now traditional biennial reunions of the alumni for the primary purpose of raising funds for the development of the alma mater.
Obafemi Awolowo University offers undergraduate and post-graduate programmes in various fields of specialization spanning the humanities, the arts, the natural sciences, the social sciences, the medical sciences, engineering and technology.
The university currently has 13 faculties, and two colleges - the Postgraduate College and the College of Health Sciences, administered in more than 60 departments
Notable alumni
Ibiyinka Alao (Artist)[1]
Obafemi Martins (Professional Footballer)
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