OAU Admissions: Why it’s Taking So Long (TAGS: OAU, ADMISSION, NAIRALAND, FIRST LIST, CAPS, GOOGLE, FIRST BACTH, UNIVERSITY IFE, OBAFEMI AWOLOWO UNIVERSITY, JAMB, POSTUTME, PREDEGREE, DIRECT ENTRY, DE, PD, JUPEB)

OAU Admissions: Why it’s Taking So Long

It is safe to think OAU is the only Nigerian federal university left that is yet to have all her 2019/2020 admission list uploaded, and this is not good for the anxieties of the applicants and their parents. Many of these applicants and parents—especially the ones who don’t know how much time OAU takes in doing everything—are beginning to worry on whether they or their ward would be admitted or not. And at this point, it is okay to have such worries, as waiting on OAU for admission would mean you have totally settled for OAU and—come what may—you would bear the consequences if it ends up how you do not want it to. If you are admitted eventually, lucky you, if unfortunately you are not, it would only mean you are writing another UTME, as there are no other schools left right now still doing admission, all the schools with name are done with their admission for 2019/2020. But why is OAU taking so long? You may want to ask. (Article continues after advert break)

Apart from the fact that OAU doesn’t rush anything, there are always official reasons why admission processes take so long in OAU, and this year has a reason too. Some applicants were offered admission some four weeks ago and everything has been on hold since then. No one else has been offered admission since then, and that is because of the NUC departmental accreditation going on in all the departments of the school right now. Every admission processes have to be on hold for the time this accreditation would last just so a department would not offer admission to people and then end up losing its accreditation and can’t offer admission to anyone to study that course, and then applicants who have been offered admission to such department are rendered stranded and confused. For instance, see how the Department of Business Administration lost their accreditation just after the evaluation by the NUC officials last two weeks. Just imagine that people were already offered admission by the department already, what’s going to be for the students now? That is why the few names that were uploaded for admission about four weeks ago are currently the last names uploaded, and I assure you that that list if not even up to 5% of the names on the First Batch. Most departments have not even been uploaded at all, only Public Administration and two or three more departments were uploaded. Which means JAMB is not even done uploading to CAPS the First Batch OAU sent to them.

For people who are still having problems understanding how JAMB and the schools work on CAPS in the process of offering admission, let me say again that it is not JAMB that offers admission as many think. It is still the schools that release the list of applicants to admit to JAMB and the list may come in batches. While JAMB just scrutinizes the names on the list to make sure they are indeed qualified for such admission, and then they upload then on CAPS for admission. If you need to read more about how JAMB, the schools and CAPS work on offering admission, read this write-up "How the Use of CAPS Works Between JAMB and the Schools on Admissions"

To close this write-up, I will have to ask all applicants of OAU to be patient, keep praying and hoping it all goes well, because no one can rush OAU. As much as I know, as soon as the accreditation process is over, the rest of the names on the First Batch sent to JAMB will be uploaded on CAPS, after which the Second Batch which is currently in compilation in OAU would be sent to JAMB too for upload to CAPS. Let’s just say December and January would be the months for: the remaining of the First Batch, the Second Batch, and then February for the Third Batch—which is the VC List that comes out after compiling the spots of people who were initially offered admission but for one reason or the other didn’t accept the admission, and then the admissions are offered to other people. I just hope with you that all goes well and you or your ward is offered admission eventually. I wish you all the best as you wait.

Necessary Information for OAU PG Applicants (TAGS: OAU, PG, POSTGRADUATE, MASTERS, TRANSCRIPTS, ETX, WES, IQAS, NAIRALAND, OBAFEMI AWOLOWO UNIVERSITY)

Necessary Information for OAU PG Applicants

I have to hint you that OAU’s PG College—because they don’t admit so many people to their programmes—is a very unpopular college of off the postgraduate colleges in Nigeria. I say this to mean you can barely hear anyone talking about the College or their programmes anywhere or having the right information you need about the College and their programmes. Unfortunately, the PG College and OAU as a whole also contribute to how the OAU PG aspirants who want to apply to OAU don’t get informed about anything concerning the application and the processes, the College and OAU as an institution have near-zero interest in dispensing information to the public about anything, or maybe they don’t know how to best do it in this 21st century.

This makes it the job of the OAU bloggers to publicize every possibly needed information about OAU, their PG College and their PG programmes. And funny enough, because all other OAU bloggers are currently undergraduate students who have little or no idea what the PG College is about and how their programmes go, it becomes an obligation to me—the only OAU blogger who is conversant with the PG College and their programmes—to always update the public on anything they need to know about the college and their programmes. To confirm I am still the only blogger who writes about OAU’s PG College and their programmes is when you typed anything about OAU’s PG programmes in the Google search engine and everything it brought to you are things I wrote about the college and their programmes at different times of every year since 2007.

I say that not to create any negative impression about the college or anything, but to pre-inform you that you may find it difficult to get any other information you need about OAU’s PG programmes from anywhere else than here. So stick to us to remain informed about OAU, OAU’s PG College and their programmes. And if there is anything you need my service for from the buying of the form to the stage of admission, don’t hesitate to contact me on 08139534187. You will be informed rightly and everything will be coordinated meticulously for you. I wish you the best of luck as you begin processing your admission to the PG College.

PS: you must know that in your PG admission processing, your transcript is almost the most important thing of all that determine whether you will be admitted or not, and I can give you one zillion factors right now that could cause your transcript to not get to the PG College before the admission board sits to offer admissions. But then, the solution to the factors is what I'm in for, not really the factors. I’ll be closing this note with a link to an article you have to read to avoid letting your transcript deprive you of your admission you deserve; click here to read it.

The Dis-accreditation of Some More Departments in OAU

The Dis-accreditation of Some More Departments in OAU

Just last year, some aspirants of Law, Med. Rehab., Dentistry and Botany in Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU) received SMSes from 55019 (supposedly belonging to JAMB (as that’s the same number they received their generated code from when they were registering for the 2018 UTME). These SMSes were sent to inform the candidates that their choice of course/department in their chosen school was unaccredited by the National Universities Commission (NUC), and they should change to another institution or course. Then came the expected panic everywhere online and offline by candidates and parents, everyone wanted to know the truth about the dis-accreditation and what they should do next. Hence, this write-up I published last year about how the departments lost their accreditation: OAU’S Law, Med. Rehab., Dentistry and Botany: The Dis-accreditation, and the Untold Truth About it All. One year later, some of these departments are only still trying to get their department accredited again, and yet another department (Business Administration) lost her accreditation again just last week, and more departments (especially in the Faculty of Education) may be facing the risk of losing their accreditation too sooner or later, due to unavailability or inadequacy of the needed resources to stand as a department offering such course.

The question right now should not only be why are those departments losing their accreditation? But also, which department is the next to lose it? The reason for this question is because I know very well that going by the NUC Benchmarks for universities, no department in OAU is worth having an accreditation to offer their course, due to lack of the needed resources—materials, facilities and humans, or the availability of such resources in inadequate counts.

However, while expecting the Faculty of Law and one or two more departments that have corrected some things about what made them lose their accreditation last year to regain the accreditation back soon, we also expect more departments to lose their accreditation this year to follow the Department of Business Administration that recently did. Also, we can only start wishing the 2019/2020 UTME applicants who have chosen Business Administration the luck to get another course, as OAU does not automatically consider applicants for another course different from the course they have chosen; lest they have done some underground processing (“runs”) on it, and unfortunately, most of these applicants wouldn’t know something had happen to the department they are waiting to be admitted to. If you are one of the candidates in this group, I advise you to get up and do something before it is too late. I wish you all the best as you try.

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OAU’S Law, Med. Rehab., Dentistry and Botany: The Dis-accreditation, and the Untold Truth About it All (TAGS: NAIRALAND, OAU, NUC, UTME, CUTOFF, ADMISSION, ACCREDITATION, OBAFEMI AWOLOWO UNIVERSITY, GOOGLE,, JAMB, DIRECT ENTRY, DE)

OAU’S Law, Med. Rehab., Dentistry and Botany: The Dis-accreditation, and

the Untold Truth About it All

Everything I want to write right now is from the offices and also from experience. So please, keep what you have read on those Whatsapp and Facebook groups and the recycled misleading write-ups you have read on other blog sites for a while to get this truth you won’t get from anywhere else but on PEC-ng, and maybe also on other blogs that are always coming on this site to steal my write-ups.

Not quite long, departments in OAU received visitors—lecturers of other schools sent by NUC to evaluate the departments. They certainly don’t do that so often, because that was my first time of experiencing such visit in my 11 years of studying and working in and around OAU. NUC uses lecturers of one school to evaluate another school and give feedback on whether some departments should be offering their courses or not. It is how they grant the accreditation a university needs to be able to train students for a particular discipline. But me, I must make this comment about the so called evaluation done in OAU, it was full of episodes of nonsense, and it’s a means of wasting resources—money and time especially. The evaluators only came to eat the meals the staffs of the departments assigned to them to evaluate. It pains me to say also that all the departments—exempting none—were just running up and down to raise funds and borrow the facilities they should have from everywhere and anywhere, just to impress the evaluators coming.

But the running up and down to prepare some nice meal and some heavy envelopes for the evaluators was more serious than the run to borrow what they should have actually. The reason for that being that, it is actually the food and the envelopes the evaluators came to evaluate, the better the food and the envelopes, the easier the evaluation goes. Which brings us to the truth about the dis-accreditation of some departments, these departments didn’t “do normal”, that’s why they got the bad report that made them lose their accreditation. As an aspirant, this is not your problem, but I had to talk about it so you know the source of the problem. Knowing the source of a problem makes it easier to address. Now let’s address the problem.

As an aspirant of the departments having the dis-accreditation problem, you are thinking write now: “what should I do? Should I change my course or stick to the course and institution I have chosen?” I will provide my answers to these questions in the form of informing you of what the outcomes of this dis-accreditation issue would be, so you could weigh the odds and know which one to go for.

To start with, I must let you know this is not the first time some departments will be losing accreditation in OAU, but the most recent one before the one happening right now happened in 2006 when the Faculty of Law was disaccredited. That year, students of the Faculty of Law had to transfer to other departments. Those who wanted Law by all means with less care about where they are getting it from had to transfer to another school to continue their Law programme. If same will be happening again this session, it would only mean OAU will not be admitting students to the dis-accredited departments this session. Which means you will have to change course/institution as advised by JAMB.

On the other side, OAU is a very rebellious institution—the students are rebellious, and even the management too. So, there is the possibility that OAU will rebel against NUC and JAMB and still admit students to these departments anyways. Which would be a thing of regret if you have changed away from these departments and yet admission is offered to students who didn’t change. You will just end up being one of those students who wanted OAU but couldn’t get it, or one of those students who want a particular course but couldn’t get it, then turned bitter against the school and people who got the course they wanted. You don’t want to join that group.

This one is very vital and you must pay your best attention to it; if OAU will not rebel against NUC and JAMB and does not admit students to the dis-accredited departments this year, and you don’t change course, I promise you, OAU will not because you have chosen any dis-accredited course then offer you admission to a department you didn’t apply to. This is why you have to be very careful what you want to do about this dis-accreditation thing. You have to be very sure what you want to do so you won’t be scolding yourself for being too fast or too slow to make a decision about this when OAU eventually do what they would do about this. For us in the system, we can only keep watching to see how OAU will react to the dis-accreditation. You will keep reading from me about this. Let’s just keep hoping this ends well.

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Solution to ETX, WES, ECE and All other Transcript Issues (TAGS: OAU, PG, TRANSCRIPTS, ETX, ORDER, ONLINE, IFE, NAIRALAND))

Solution to OAU,  ETX, WES, IQAS and All other Transcript Issues

If you are having issues with your transcript order or the delivery of the transcript to where you need it, this write-up is definitely for you. So read and discover something funny about your transcript issue.

If that initial paragraph held you down on this article and makes you want to continue reading it, then it most probably has to be you have ordered for your transcript and it’s taking forever to get delivered to where you need it. If my assumption is anywhere near correct, then relax, I'm about to discuss the problem and the solution here.

If via ETX is where you ordered for you transcript, then believe me, the delay of your transcript is nothing to them, they like derive joy from abandoning people’s order till it’s either too late for its use or almost too late. That is said not to spoil ETX’s market, but let’s call a spade a spade so it knows it’s not a sickle. Let’s show ETX’s failure to their face so they know they are failing. If ETX has made you lose an opportunity before just because they refused to deliver your transcript on time, you would understand why I'm this blunt about criticizing them. Take this for instance; the idea of online order of transcripts is to facilitate the order and to make it possible for the owner to order for it anywhere without having to show up. But unfortunately, it’s not like that with ETX. ETX, despite their over-charging transcript delivery service, they still make you go down to your school about the transcript after several months of waiting to hear that your transcript has been delivered. I'm talking about 3, 4, 5 or even 6 months of waiting here. To confirm what I'm saying about what ETX put people through after ordering their transcripts, log on to your Twitter app sometime, type ETX in the search engine and see tons of tweets people have tweeted to complain online about what ETX is doing to them. In fact, let me help you do that! I will attach some snapshots to this write-up now; they are tweets from Twitter users about ETX and their transcript delivery service. This write-up continues after the picture break…

Like I said earlier on, these snapshots of complaints about ETX’s service are not uploaded to spoil ETX’s market, but we have to show the dirt to the eyes so they are aware what they’ve been doing. Now that it has been made clear to you the problem you may encounter by ordering your transcripts from ETX, or the problem you are already encountering, let’s talk about the solution now.

Being a problem solver, when a problem is noticed, it becomes an obligation finding a way out to it, and being an entrepreneur, it becomes necessary to make profits from solving problems, and this is where I come in to provide prompt solution to your transcript issues. Don’t worry, you're still ordering your transcripts from ETX, all I need is the reference number of the transcript you ordered and the order code, leave the rest to me. Instead of the months your transcript order takes before it gets delivered, I make it get to wherever you need it in a matter of days! You're sending the transcript to WES or IQAS for evaluation? Don’t worry. You need your institution to respond to the confirmation of your evaluation faster? Don’t worry. You need your transcript delivered to another school or even your school for a postgraduate programme application? Don’t worry. You need your transcript delivered to your employer? Don’t worry. I mean don’t worry, your transcript gets to where you need it in just a matter of days. However, this service is not free o. LOL. I had to make that clear so you wouldn’t contact me expecting me to be on the run for you without talking about my charges.

In other news, if you are trying to apply for the current OAU’s PG programme for which the application form is on sale right now, then I must inform you that it is important that your transcript gets to the PG College before the admission board sits on the admission. OAU loves transcripts so much, in fact, it’s no admission without transcripts. So if you are just applying for the programme now and you are yet to order for your transcript, just know your transcript is already behind the clock; it most definitely will not get to OAU before the admission board sits, and it will deny you of the admission you deserve so much. However, you can use my service too. I fast-track transcript orders and get it delivered in just a matter of days. Just call me when you are ready 08139534187. If I'm not answering the call or the line is not going through, just leave a message. I will definitely respond to it sooner than expected.

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How Slots, “Runs” and Admission Processing work in OAU (TAGS: OAU, ADMISSION, FIRST BATCH, SECOND BATCH, FIRST LIST, SECOND LIST, THIRD BATCH, THIRD LIST, VC LIST, MERIT LIST, SUPPLEMENTARY LIST, UNIVERSITY, PREDEGREE, SLOT, RUNS, RUNZ)

How Slots, “Runs” and Admission Processing work in OAU

As far as I know, every higher institution of learning in Nigeria gives a certain number of slots to many of their staffs and executives, and OAU is not an exemption to this. Also, all of these schools have how their own slots work, so does OAU. Now this is how slots work in OAU; staffs and executives of the school are given slots because working in a school makes people always come to them to make requests for admission, and this is why the departmental cutoffs don’t affect people who slots are used for. Meaning, if a slot is used for you, all you just have to do is have the basic requirements for the department you are considered for and you are good for admission. For better explanation (before the advent of this current post-UTME scoring system OAU is using) the basic requirement for consideration for admission to OAU was having at least 200/400 in the UTME and also 200/400 in the post-UTME. When you have gotten these, and you are a slot candidate, it wouldn’t matter what the cutoff of the department you are considered for is, you will be offered the admission. What I'm saying is, let’s say you are a slot candidate aspiring the Department of Economics, the cutoff of Economics is 270 but you have only scored 200. Don’t worry; if truly a slot in Economics is used for you, you are gaining your admission; this is how slots work, and as it was then, so it is now that we are using the “aggregate score” to determine who is “Eligible for Admission” and who is “Not Eligible for Admission”. This time, all you just have to do is be “Eligible for Admission”, whether you have the departmental cutoff or not, if a slot is used for you truly, you are surely gaining your admission to the department the slot is from. However, if you are getting a slot, just always make sure it’s genuine; there are fake slots out there.

I know too many people think slot and runs mean the same, but I tell you verily, they may in other schools, but I assure you they don’t mean the same in OAU. Now, let’s set this record straight once and for all. I have explained what slots mean in OAU and how they work, so compare that with this explanation of runs I'm about to give. Generally, the term “runs” (as a noun) is no English word, it’s only generated to fit the mention of all the running around you will have to do in the course of seeking a thing or wanting something to happen, and it fits well into describing all the seeking and wanting something to happen in admission processing; that’s why all the running around in seeking admission is referred to as “runs” while the person/people doing the running around for others is/are called “runsman”/“runsmen” . This makes the job of the runsman limited to just helping you do what you want to do but can’t do. You already have your strategies, your people, your links or even your qualifying admission requirements, but you need someone on ground for prompt and reliable information and for responsiveness to your admission needs, a runsman is what you need here. However, most runsmen—though the school doesn’t give them slots but because of the relationship they have with so many staffs and the executives of the university—they have more slots even than the Vice-Chancellor; I’m not joking here. For instance, I’ve been a runsman in OAU since 2007, I have built this paddy-paddy relationship with at least 30 OAU lecturers (ranging from the level of Mr. to Prof.), I have cordial relationship with at least 50 nonacademic staffs and good number of Personal Assistants and Personal Secretaries of the executives of the school; so just imagine how many slots I have access to per session. All I'm saying is, a runsman is the person you need if you need a slot, because they have more slots and they put you in mind even than the staffs and excos. However, even when the runsman has used a slot for you, you still have to hold on to him very well as there is something called slot-swapping here in OAU (my next write-up will explain this).

However, of all that’s been explained, admission processing covers them all. Admission processing starts from when the UTME form is obtained, to the level of guidance for the appropriate course, to the level of providing materials, information and strategies for gaining the admission, and doing the running around till the admission is gained. I only get to have 10-15 of candidates like this per session. In fact I bring them down to Ife for specialized tutoring for the UTME and post-UTME with fine hostel provided for them. It is almost impossible for any candidate to not get admission to their aspired department on merit when all these processes are gone through as recommended. There is slot, there is “runs”, but admission processing covers them all. There are reasons why sending your ward/child to Ife as early as they are ripe to write UTME works; the school environment itself is a motivation to aspirants, and also, the best tutors who understand how to get into OAU easily can only be found around OAU. Send your kid to Ife sir/ma if you really want that admission for them, they will not die! Quote me anywhere sir/ma, the tendency of being admitted on merit to the desired department in OAU after studying in Ife for the UTME and also for the post-UTME is almost 100%.

How the Use of CAPS Works Between JAMB and the Schools on Admissions (TAGS: OAU, ADMISSION LIST, FIRST BACTH, SECOND BATCH, NAIRALAND, GOOGLE, ADMISSION LIST, CAPS)

How the Use of CAPS Works Between JAMB and the Schools on Admissions

Since the introduction of CAPS (Central Admission Processing System) by JAMB, there has been amongst candidates and others the wrong understanding of how the schools and JAMB work on offering admission. Some people even think it is JAMB that offers admission now not the schools, and that is a capital NO! The job of offering admission remains and will always remain the schools’! As that is one of the primary functions of the administrative head of the schools (i.e, the Vice Chancellors) which the selected staffs of the schools will have to carry out on their behalf. But then, as the reason why CAPS was introduced is to centralize admission processing to: monitor the fairness and meritocracy in the processes of admission; make sure any one candidate does not get an admission they do not qualify for or not get multiple admissions while some are hanging to get any, it becomes necessary that JAMB has a part to take in the processes of offering admission too. But let’s not get this wrong, that does not mean JAMB offers admission, the function of JAMB as a matriculation board does not extend to the offering of admission even though it covers the conduction of the matriculation exams and monitoring the originality of admissions and the fairness in them.

Though JAMB knows the admission quota of every accredited school as provided by NUC, but only the schools can decide whether they want to admit up to the quota or below it, which also puts JAMB in the wrong position to be the body to offer admission. How it therefore works is that the schools compile their admission lists and uploads to CAPS, and JAMB after screening that you qualify for the admission approves the admission. When your school has uploaded your name is when your CAPS says “ADMISSION IN PROGRESS”, but when JAMB approves it is when it says “ADMITTED”. However, the names can still be uploaded to CAPS by the schools in batches, that is why all candidates don’t get the same updates on their CAPS at the same time.

In other news, if you are an applicant of OAU and your CAPS has been saying “ADMISSSION IN PROGRESS” for a while now, you can check the new update now; “CONGRATULATIONS YOU HAVE BEEN ADMITTED”. Note that this is only the First BATCH, the Second Batch—which will include the names of the DE applicants and all slot candidates—will be out soon too. I wish you the best of luck as you wait.

Transcripts Order in OAU 2: The Problems and the Possible Solutions (TAGS: oau transcripts order request etx wes ece evaluation iqas nairaland))

Transcripts Order in OAU 2: The Problems and the Possible Solutions 

With no beating around, I’ll like to start highlighting why transcripts services are awful in OAU, and it is majorly—first of all—because OAU decided to hand over totally their transcripts services to ETX—a startup company for that matter. Not that it is bad to try out a startup company and help them grow, it only becomes bad when: one, OAU hands the transcripts services over to the company 100%; and two, the company refuses to leave the status of a startup company after five years of handling such big project.

OAU’s alumni base gets bigger and bigger every year, and the need for their transcripts gets even bigger too—especially now that everyone wants to travel to Canada and needs their transcripts for processing such thing. But unfortunately, ETX is not efficient enough to meet the needs of the thousands of OAU alumni who request for their transcripts per year. Thereby creating problems upon problems for the alumni who need their transcripts for a thing or two. All I'm saying here is, it is totally reasonable that OAU tries to take their transcripts to the internet, and also totally unreasonable that they removed themselves totally from every transcripts request services. OAU is a larger school than that, and there are even schools will lesser alumni base than OAU that still deal transcripts individually with their alumni, even when thy have also handed the service to an online transcripts delivery company.

Though the OAU management is corrupt, as it is most likely that some people in the management are collecting special bribes from ETX to keep them in the partnership with OAU, because I believe there is no way OAU as a school does not know what ETX has been putting their alumni through in getting their transcripts. However, there still can be solutions to thes. Transcripts order should be optional: you may order on ETX if you want to (which will favour people who can’t come down to Ife or who don’t want to); or come down to the school to request for your transcripts directly from OAU if that’s how you want it. This would reduce the clients for ETX and get them to treat every other client they have rightly and also improve on their services.

On the part of ETX, their major problem is that they have zero follow-up strategies, almost zero feedback system and customer care. When a client orders for their transcripts on ETX, and unfortunately there is any problem about the processing of the transcripts or about delivering the transcripts, ETX just normally leaves the case and forgets about it, without even getting back to the client who ordered for the transcripts to update them on the status of their transcripts order. The client who needs their transcripts would keep waiting for months and months for their transcripts to get to where they need them until they miss what they need the transcripts for. Even when the client tries to call the customer care, they don’t answer calls, and when they do, the respondents are never ever helpful! The solution to this is simple too, ETX need to have a customer care personnel that actually understand the management of OAU and can even before contacting the management give answers to questions from their clients. ETX needs to not just collect order money and not make sure the orders are fulfilled by all means, to this they will have to have a follow up team that will always go about solving the problems any client’s transcripts may be having that may end up sabotaging the delivery of their transcripts instead of just leaving the order where it has problems to not get back to it again. ETX need to improve on their feedback system, a client who orders for their transcripts online need to be getting alerts at good intervals on the level their transcripts order has gotten and information on what's wrong with their order when something goes wrong (that one they put on their web about your order is not even informative enough!). And to add to this, why must a normal transcript order take several weeks or months to be delivered even when the transcripts have no problem at all? I believe there are ways the bureaucracy could be reduced so that all paper works about every normal order could be done in maximum 2 days, and the transcripts can be on their way to their owner by the 3rd or 4th day. The completion of a transcript order should not take more than one week in the worst case! ETX, please up your game!

Read the first part of this write-up here: Transcripts Order in OAU 2: The Problems and the Possible Solutions

Untold things About OAU’s Departmental Cutoffs and the Admission Lists (Tags: google.com, nairaland, oau, cutoff, admission list, postutme, post-utme, aspirants, cut off mark, Obafemi awolowo university)

Untold things About OAU’s Departmental Cutoffs and the Admission Lists

Writing and failing the UTME is bad, passing the UTME only to end up failing OAU post-UTME is worse, but passing OAU post-UTME only to find yourself behind the departmental cutoff when that of your aspiring department is released is the worst. But you know what else is worse even than not meeting the departmental cutoff? Seeing another aspirant of the same department as you who is even far below the departmental cutoff than you gaining admission to that department is the worst of them all, it’s super-depressing.

If there is anything at all I remember very well about me scoring just 2 or 3marks below the cutoff in my three sessions of writing the UTME and not gaining admission, it will be the part when I saw aspirants having lesser score than I did gaining the admission anyways like they deserved it better than me. I got depressed every time this happened, then I had the conviction—which I just recently changed—that that cutoff thing is the biggest scam in OAU’s admission processing, judging by how someone with a lesser score gets to gain the admission while you don’t, even when the two of you are below the cutoff. But now, I have a better understanding of how the cutoff works, and I want to share it.

Runsmen, the “eligible” OAU aspirants and the parents who have children in this category, there is nothing we look forward to right now more than the OAU departmental cutoffs. On my own path as a runsman, I know why I await the cutoffs earnestly, but that is not why I’m making this article. I’m making this article to explain the reason why a person would lose their admission because they are some marks below their aspired departmental cutoff but another person with a lesser score would gain the admission anyways. This is it, there is a reason why OAU releases admission list thrice; I will mention each of the three lists below and tell you what you have to know about it.

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1. The Merit List (a.k.a First List): this list is exclusive only to the candidates who have in all ramifications met every requirement to be offered admission to their aspired departments, just as requested by the department and the university. That is, if the cutoff for Economics is 65% such candidates have scored at least 65% or have the score and areas/states that fit for the special cases like the catchment areas and ELDS cutoffs. Other than these conditions, you cannot be admitted on merit. The pre-degree students use to be on this list too, but not the direct entry students (DE). The DE students only come on the subsequent lists after the merit list.

2. The Second List: this list comes after the merit list, it is on this list the DE candidates see their names, and also candidates who didn’t meet the meriting cutoff to their aspired departments but because they know who they should know and what should be done for them has been done, they gain the admission anyways (either to their aspired department or to a compensating department). Most of the times, only one thing is the rule here: just make sure “Eligible for Admission” is written on your slip, how low your score is below your original or compensating department will not matter; you know people, so it’s okay. This is where I get my saying from that you either merit OAU’s admission or get it anyways.

3. The Third List (a.k.a Supplementary List or VC List): this list is the most misunderstood list! Everyone just thinks the list is their right. But I’m stating this emphatically, the third list is not your right, it’s the VC’s. To get on this list, you have to know the VC or know someone who knows the VC, in another sense, the VC has to know you or know someone who knows you; that’s how you get on the VC list. This supplementary list is the shortest of all the lists, and it comes to effect because there will always be people who are offered admission on the first and second list but will not accept the admission based on some reasons ranging from unavailability of funds, health issues, or another opportunity opened elsewhere. These names will be replaced with other people’s name, and most of the times, this list is released close to the matriculation or just after the matriculation.

Now that you know how the OAU cutoff and admission lists work, I hope you have learnt that cutoff or no cutoff, if you did what you have to do right and in time, you will still gain your admission; and also, by now, you know on which list to expect your name.

Waiting on OAU’s Admission Lists (TAGS: OAU, OBAFEMI AWOLOWO UNIVERSITY, ADMISSION LIST, NAIRALAND,, GOOGLE, FIRST BATCH, JAMB, UTME, DE, POSTUTME, ADMISSION, CAPS, IFE)

Waiting on OAU’s Admission Lists

As of today, OAU has to be the only Nigerian tertiary institution left yet to release any admission list at all, and that’s what we are known for—taking our time on everything. However, this could be a bad thing as much as it could be a good thing, as taking official things slow could mean perfection is what we are shooting for, or it’s just that our staffs aren’t swift about their jobs. But whatever the case is, if OAU is making you wait for the admission list, it’s only wise that you know why you are waiting and how you should be waiting. I cannot help you know why you are waiting—it’s in your decision you made by choosing OAU and working hard to pass all the screenings you have passed, but I could help you know how to wait, and that’s what I’m up to right about now.

As the UTME and our tertiary institutions are structured now, it is almost impossible for an admission seeker to be considered for admission by other schools on their choices of institution if their first choice of school doesn’t offer them admission. It’s more or less like you are choosing just one school and if that one school doesn’t admit you, then you will have to go do Change of Institution to put another school on your first choice of school so you could stand a chance of being screened and considered for admission by the newly chosen school. But in this case when all the schools open and close their registration for Post-UTME/screening and close it almost at the same time, it means if you failed the Post-UTME of one school or get rejected for admission by the school, you may find it difficult to find any school left to register for their Post-UTME/screening. Then in the case of OAU that likes to conduct their Post-UTME later than most schools, and also like to release their admission lists far later than most schools, it means if OAU doesn’t admit you, your next and only option may have to be the next UTME. So as you are waiting on OAU to release their admission lists, it must be at least one of:

1. you are very certain you will be admitted, because you beat either of the merit score, catchment score or the ELDS score, and you have done perfectly all you should do that no faults could be found about your application. But even at this level of qualification and perfection, I must tell you that you still need MORE to get courses in the Health Sciences, Law, and courses like Accounting and Economics;

2. your runsman or admission helper has assured you of an admission—even when you do not beat the cutoff, and you trust their words; or

3. You have made your decision to wait on OAU for as long as it takes, and if (God forbids) you are not offered an admission, to give up or just write UTME again next year is what you are doing.

It is not possible that you are waiting on OAU’s admission lists and how you are waiting is not at least one of the three mentioned above. But I must tell you that the most dangerous of the three ways candidates wait for OAU’s admission list is the second on the list, because apart from the fact that you have to really trust your runsman or admission helper to have decided to wait on OAU based on these people’s words and actions to help you gain the admission even when you do not have the cutoff score, you have also chosen to put your chances to write the next UTME on the line. This is what I mean, UTME registrations begin early nowadays, in fact the one for 2020 had already started, even when OAU is yet to release any admission list, it means by the time the Third List is released, registration for next year’s Post-UTME may have closed. You see what I mean?

Remember, if you do not have any of the merit score, catchment score or ELDS score, it means your name cannot come out with the First List, and that’s because the First List is the Merit List, and only the ones who have either of these scores mentioned above merited the admission, everyone else will always have to wait for the Second List and Third List. It’s still safe to wait on the Second List without trying to register for another UTME already, but very very unsafe to wait for the Third List without haven’t register for the next UTME. That is because: one, the Third List is a very very slim list; and two, it comes out much later—sometimes after the matriculation of the ones admitted on the First and Second Lists. So I advise you, when the First and Second Lists are all out and your name is not on them, please register for another UTME already as you wait on the Third List. I wish you all the best.

Read more about the Third List here to know how to wait on it if you have to.

Transcripts Order in OAU 1: How OAU and ETX are Getting it Wrong (TAGS: oau transcripts etx wes ece evaluation iqas nairaland)

Transcripts Order in OAU 1: How OAU and ETX are Getting it Wrong

After about five years of working somewhere in between OAU and ETX in solving alumni’s transcripts order issues and making a clean living from it, I have over these years learnt what OAU and ETX are jointly doing wrongly to make transcripts transactions frustrating and opportunity-depriving for the alumni of the school who need their transcripts to move forward either academically, occupationally, in their career or in life generally. OAU and ETX really need to be given a blunt feedback about their transcripts services, I will try to do that with this write-up, and I sincerely wish this one gets to someone in the management of any or both of the managements of the two organizations.

Let me—for those who don’t know this—state that OAU stopped transacting transcripts directly with individuals about 5 years ago, anyone who goes to the senate to request for their transcripts now will be told this (no matter whom you are meeting): “go and order for it on ETX”. The school has handed everything about transcripts requests to a startup company called ETX. ETX is an online transcripts delivery service that was meant to ease the order and delivery of transcripts to anywhere in the world, this was supposed to be so easy that the alumni shouldn’t need to come down to Ife to get their transcripts. You just have to give your details as a student, state where you need the transcripts, pay for the service, and wait to get notifications that your transcripts has gotten to where you said you need them. But unfortunately, the reverse has been the case since ETX started handling OAU’s transcripts services. Alumni will order, wait, wait and wait, after months of waiting and not getting their transcripts, they will eventually have to come down to Ife only to learn that ETX just collected their order money, encountered a little problem in the processing of their transcripts and abandoned the file—without even giving any report to the client on why they won’t be getting their transcripts they have ordered and paid for. Many people lose opportunities to this every year! OAU doesn’t care about this, ETX too either don't want to improve on their services or/and not even trying to know how to improve on their services.

I can’t deny that this problem is why I—as an entrepreneur—get to make profits from solving such problems, but that doesn’t mean I still don’t hope OAU and ETX do something to get better on this.

Transcripts Order in OAU 2: The Problems and the Possible Solutions is another write-up you should read. Click the link now to read it.

Necessary Information for OAU PG Applicants (TAGS: OAU, MASTERS, PGD, MSC, PHD, FORM, POSTGRADUATE, NAIRALAND)

Necessary Information for OAU PG Applicants

I have to hint you that OAU’s PG College—because they don’t admit so many people to their programmes—is a very unpopular college of all the postgraduate colleges in Nigeria. I say this to mean you can barely hear anyone talking about the College or their programmes anywhere or having the right information you need about the College and their programmes. Unfortunately, the PG College and OAU as a whole also contribute to how the OAU PG aspirants who want to apply to OAU don’t get informed about anything concerning the application and the processes, the College and OAU as institutions have near-zero interest in dispensing information to the public about anything, or maybe they don’t know how to best do it in this 21st century. This makes it the job of the OAU bloggers to publicize every possible needed information about OAU, their PG College and their PG programmes. And funny enough, because all other OAU bloggers are currently undergraduate students who have little or no idea what the PG College is about and how their programmes go, it becomes an obligation for me—the only OAU blogger who is conversant with the PG College and their programmes—to always update the public on anything they need to know about the college and their programmes. To confirm I am still the only blogger who writes about OAU’s PG College and their programmes is when you typed anything about OAU’s PG programmes in the Google search engine and everything it brought to you are things I wrote about the college and their programmes at different times of every year since 2007.

I say that not to create any negative impression about the college or anything, but to pre-inform you that you may find it difficult to get any other information you need about OAU’s PG programmes from anywhere else than here. So stick to us to remain informed about OAU, OAU’s PG College and their programmes. And if there is anything you need my service for from the buying of the form to the stage of admission, don’t hesitate to contact me on 08139534187. You will be informed rightly and everything will be coordinated meticulously for you. I wish you the best of luck as you begin processing your admission to the PG College.

PS: you must know that in your PG admission processing, your transcript is almost the most important thing of all that determine whether you will be admitted or not, and I can give you one zillion factors right now that could cause your transcript to not get to the PG College before the admission board sits to offer admissions. But then, the solution to the factors is what I'm here for, not really the factors. I’ll be closing this note with a link to an article you have to read to avoid letting your transcript deprive you of your admission you deserve; click here to read it.

OAU Postgraduate Admission Form for 2019/2020 Harmattan Semester On Sale Now (Tags: Nairaland, OAU, Obafemi Awolowo University, PG, Admission, form)

OAU Postgraduate Admission Form  for 2019/2020 Harmattan Semester On Sale Now

You find yourself on this page probably because you clicked on the link I sent to you as one of those people who have—at some points—discussed with me about OAU PG form and asked me to alert them when the form is on sale, or because you googled about OAU PG form and it brought this link to you; you clicked on the link and here you are. Now that you are here, let me inform you categorically that the OAU PG form for the 2019/2020 Harmattan Semester is out finally, and it will be on sale till 4^st November, 2017 (for most of the departments). Now read every other thing you are about to read on here with great care because they are the information you will not get anywhere online—not even on OAU’s website., and because the PG students are never that much, it is always very difficult to find people online talking about anything that has to do with OAU PG. I guess that’s why I still have something doing, since I happen to be the only OAU-based blogger who blogs about the PG college (not finding any recent thing on any website about OAU’s PG programme should be enough to convince you of that).

If you are planning to buy the form, know first of all that you can pay for the form only in two ways: first being through your bank cards and the other by purchasing the NetQue cards relevant to such payment at Polaris Bank OAU Campus Branch. The price of the form ranges from #15,000 to #20,000 depending on the kind of programme you are applying for, and some extra charges of lesser than #1,000 may be added to your payment whether you are paying online or using the NetQue cards. Everything is easy to do at this stage and should not give you any problem. However, my services may be useful to you should you need someone to help you purchase the NetQue cards and have the PINs sent to you. I could also help you fill the form here and submit the necessary documents to the appropriate offices and in fact monitor the processes for you till you are offered admission. Rest assured everything will be done meticulously.

Also, most applicants focus on wanting to obtain the form but don’t prepare on ordering their transcripts as early as the form is purchased, and I must tell you, transcript issues make so many people lose their PG admission per session, just because they do not understand how seriously OAU takes the transcripts in giving any admission. No matter how qualified-for-the-admission you are, if your transcripts are not delivered before the admission board sits to decide on the admission or if they are delivered incompletely, you will certainly not be admitted! So as you are planning to get the form now, kindly be planning on getting your transcripts too. If you need any help on how to order for your transcripts, or you want to fast-track the delivery of your transcripts, or you want me to help you check if all your documents have been delivered to the appropriate offices or you want me to let you do the delivery, you can always call me for any of these.

I want to keep the rest of the information for when you contact me, so it won't be like I have given you all the info you need that you don’t even need to contact me anymore (na wetin I go dey chop if you no contact me na?). So, apart from everything I just told, if there is anything else you want to know about OAU PG admission, or anything you need to get done; I'm your man; I’ll do it as though you were the one doing your own thing. Contact me 08139534187.

The Commonest Admission-Depriving Mistakes Jambites Make (TAGS: JAMB UTME REGISTRATION FORM NAIRALAND GOOGLE OAU CANDIDATE UME EXAM DE DIRECT ENTRY COACHING OAU IFE)

The Commonest Admission-Depriving Mistakes Jambites Make

Now that the registration for the 2020/2021 admission session UTME is on, I feel the need to publish this article to warn applicants of the likely mistakes they could make—at the level of registering for the exam—that would deny them of their admission even when they have gotten all it takes to get the admission. Not that many of them who even come across such write-up as this would even bother to read it. I mean, a student that doesn’t care about studying the JAMB brochure before registering for their UTME—even when they are repeatedly asked to study the brochure before going on with the registration, what are the chances that such student would want to read a whole write-up that’s meant to warn them of what their negligence and ignorance may cost them? Being in the educational consultancy business for a while has exposed me to different kinds of applicants who lose admission based on one or two mistakes they made while registering for the exam, and the kinds of mistakes they make. I will be talking about the commonest of them after this advert break...

Not Studying the Brochure: Most UTME applicants don’t study the brochure before going to the computer centre to register for the exam, they just decide these are the schools I like, these are the courses I like, these are the O/Level subjects I feel like using and these are the subjects I like to write in my UTME, and many at times, this negligence gets them into some admission trouble. Every school have how they offer admission to each of their courses and the kind of students they want to take in for each course, they have the subjects they expect you to have passed in your O/Levels and the subjects they need you to write in the UTME to be qualified for admission. And in fact, these expectations and requirements are not constant; they may change at any time. Because you used to know OAU for instance doesn’t accept Commerce in place of Government or Economics in the UTME combinations to study in the Faculty of Administration doesn’t mean things couldn’t have changed yesterday; things may change and then OAU now accepts Commerce and Economics. You just have to study the brochure before filling the form!

Confusing the Computer Person for an Education Consultant: Applicants by default believe the guy they go to at the computer centres to register for the exam knows everything about the school they are trying to apply to and about the course they desire, so they just leave the computer guy to everything that most of them end up not even knowing the email and/or password the computer guy used to create their UTME form. I must emphasize this, the computer centre guys mostly are not there to correct you on anything, they are just there to help you fill in the things you have decided to fill in your form, and many of them who even act like they know what you should fill in the form don’t even know the right thing at all. So you need to consult an education consultant before filling that form. An education consultant is in the best position to know everything about every school, or at least be able to get valid information on the things they don’t know. I will say this again, consult an educational consultant before registering for your UTME. Wrong entries will not deny you of your well-deserved admission o.

Not Paying Attention to Anything During Registration: Like I said earlier on, most applicant don’t really pay attention when the filling of their form is going on, they just nod their head and provide answers to the questions they are asked. I know this because most applicants don’t even get to know the email address used to register their UTME until it’s time to print the exam slip, and because the printing of the exam slip doesn’t require inserting their password on the JAMB portal, most of them don’t know they password until they need to do some Data Correction (Change of Institution, Change of Course and the likes) or something like that on their portal. We go through so much at these two times and when it’s time to register for the Post-UTME and their password is needed. We are always having to go through hell in recovering their password. And according to my personal survey on 2017, 2018 and 2019 UTME candidates, over 90% of candidates (of all these years put together) who have problems recovering their password end up not gaining admission to their desired school or course. You know why, when it comes to admission, not paying attention to your own stuff means you are careless, and most schools’ screening are programmed to screen out careless people too. Carelessness has a snowball effect, if you could be careless about your UTME registration, you would be careless about several other things and they will all come together in the end to deny you of your admission.

If the foundation of a house is already bad, the whole building is going to end up bad. If the registration of your UTME is bad, no matter how good everything else turns out, that foundation will always have its own definition of how good your building stans. Don’t be a careless applicant, don’t be an ignorant applicant, contact an education consultant, do your part in the exam and do it to your best capacity; you will have yourself to appreciate for it. I wish you well.

NB: if you have chosen OAU as your choice of school and you want to come to Ife to take coaching in preparation for the UTME, we’ve got you covered. Our tutorial centre is the best in town and our hostel facilities are conducive and comfortable too. Pictures speak…

OAU Admission, After the Cut Offs, Then What? (Tags: OAU, Nairaland, OAU Peeps, Admission, Cut off, Merit List, First List, UTME, Post-UTME, Screening)

OAU Admission, After the Cut Offs, Then What?

We’ve waited impatiently for the OAU departmental cut offs; they came at last and here we are again—all of us consultants and applicants—waiting anxiously for the first list. To some people, the admission list is only a list coming, to some other people, it’s much more than just a list. For instances, to the applicants who is slow or indifferent to doing a thing about enhancing their admission chances, it’s most likely to be a disappointing list—especially if they have not scored up to the cut off required of them by their aspired department. To the applicants who is smart enough to understand that gaining admission into OAU—especially to the highly competitive departments—is much more about who you know and the chances you take than it is about what you scored, it’s most likely going to be the list that’ll put their widest smile on their faces and show them the way to joining the ever-conscious-ever-articulate OAU students. To many of us consultants who have been paid for admission processing and “runs”, the list is either going to be the evidence of a job done completely or job done incompletely. But to us at PEC, the list is surely and yet again going to be another prove of integrity and the show of long-time experience in the business of admission facilitation. So, it’s not just the applicants waiting for the first list now, we all are awaiting it seriously. But now that the cut offs have been released and we are waiting for the first list to be released too (which will be sooner), what should an applicant be doing just to make sure their chances of being admitted get higher and remain so? I'm about to do justice to that.

Year in year out, I always tell my candidates to not—because they have scored up to or more than the cut off required of them by their aspired departments—relent on their admission processing or become negligent. Hyping apart now, the moment you chose OAU in the UTME form, the moment everything that has to do with relenting and negligence in your life should divorce with you; because seriously, relenting and negligence are the major reasons why most OAU applicants don’t get admitted—even when they deserve it so much. Now, as an applicant, what should you be doing as you await the first list? Simple, don’t let your runs-person rest! Text and call them every now and then to show them how desperate you are. I know why I'm saying this. There are "runs" people in OAU who re-sell the slot they have sold to you to another person because the second bidder offered the highest price (this happens so much in the cases of applicants going to the highly competitive departments like Medicine, Nursing, Med. Rehab., Accounting and Economics). Though that does not mean they wouldn’t give the lowest bidder another slot, but it won't be the slot that will give them admission to their course of choice. I say this because I know, I’ve been doing this job since 2007, so you can be sure whatever I tell you on this is from experience.

Let me take advantage of this article to tell applicants who are still waiting for the first list before they start their runs that—should they not be admitted into OAU this session—they'll certainly be the cause of themselves losing the admission, not OAU. For Heaven’s sake admission processing and "runs" always start immediately after the release of the Post-UTME result (or even before it sef); so, waiting till the cut offs are released before you start making moves is the worst kind of procrastination; because by the time the cut offs are released? It’s always difficult to find a runs-man who still has a slot they have not used. Even the professors and high level staffs who own the slots would have exhausted their slots. So, if you are yet to do a thing about your admission processing, it’s almost getting too late now! If you make the move right now you can still be lucky enough to be squeezed in somehow—if you can afford it. But when the first list is out before you start making a move, your chance of getting a slot is almost zero. By this, I'm telling you to be wise, fast and smart enough to take advantage of any opportunity that promises to increase your chances of being admitted. You have to be desperate and more risk-taking about your admission "runs" to be admitted to OAU—even if you have the cut off score. OAU is much more competitive than you can ever imagine. It’s always about 100,000 applicants every year and the number that’ll be admitted has—since 2006—always been between 5000 and 11000 (the maximum number OAU has ever admitted in a session). That’s a very tiny portion of the applicants. So you should know by this that it takes much more than your score to be among the overly small number of applicants that’ll be admitted out of the so-much applicants. Now, if you are thinking of making any move, make it now before it is too late. Make a call now!





Other write-ups you need to read:
OAU Admission Rush 
OAU Departmental Cutoffs for 2019/2020 Session 
The Commonest Admission-Depriving Mistakes Jambites Make

OAU Departmental Cutoffs for 2019/2020 Session (Tags: OAU, Nairaland, Admission, Cut off, Merit List, First List, UTME, Post-UTME, Screening)

OAU Departmental Cutoffs for 2019/2020 Session

Could you believe I spent the whole of last week looking everywhere for the real OAU departmental cut offs? Yea, I couldn’t believe it either, that I’d have so many candidates depending on me for the right information on what’s happening about their admission processing, and I’ll have no idea what to give them as the truth. I have never been that blind about anything happening on OAU campus before—never ever. I guess a blogger could end up needing information too sometimes. Well, I pulled some strings and thank God I ended up having the true information that I need. I have the true OAU departmental cut off now, and I'm sharing it immediately.

I had to add this to this article tho, because I've been getting calls concerning this. For as many of you who applied for the highly competitive courses like Medicine, Nursing, Med. Rehab., Pharmacy, Economics and Accounting, and you are already relaxing because you scored higher than the departmental cut off in the Post-UTME screening; I'm enjoining you now to get up from your relaxation and start doing what you have to do now if you don't want to lose your admission even with the high score you have. Your high score does not guarantee your admission to these departments o, you will have to shine your eyes, open your ears, and do something not many people will know you did. Na the truth I just yarn you so. Make good use of it. The cutoffs come after this picture break.

OAU DEPARTMENTAL CUTOFFS FOR 2019/2020 SESSION

FACULTY OF AGRICULTURE

AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS

Merit 50%

Ekiti – 50%

Lagos – 50%

Ogun – 50%

Ondo – 50%

Osun – 50%

Oyo – 50%

ELDS – 50%

ANIMAL SCIENCE

Merit 50%

Ekiti – 50%

Lagos – 50%

Ogun – 50%

Ondo – 50%

Osun – 50%

Oyo – 50%

ELDS – 50%

AGRIC EXTENSION AND RURAL SOCIOLOGY

Merit 50%

Ekiti – 50%

Lagos – 50%

Ogun – 50%

Ondo – 50%

Osun – 50%

Oyo – 50%

ELDS – 50%

CROP PRODUCTION AND PROTECTION

Merit 50%

Ekiti – 50%

Lagos – 50%

Ogun – 50%

Ondo – 50%

Osun – 50%

Oyo – 50%

ELDS – 50%

SOIL SCIENCE

Merit 50%

Ekiti – 50%

Lagos – 50%

Ogun – 50%

Ondo – 50%

Osun – 50%

Oyo – 50%

ELDS – 50%

FACULTY OF ADMINISTRATION

ACCOUNTING

Merit 66%

Ekiti – 50%

Lagos – 50%

Ogun – 50%

Ondo – 50%

Osun – 50%

Oyo – 50%

ELDS – 50%

INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

Merit 56%

Ekiti – 50%

Lagos – 50%

Ogun – 50%

Ondo – 50%

Osun – 50%

Oyo – 50%

ELDS – 50%

PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION

Merit 58%

Ekiti – 50%

Lagos – 50%

Ogun – 50%

Ondo – 50%

Osun – 50%

Oyo – 50%

ELDS – 50%

LOCAL GOVERNMENT STUDIES

Merit 63%

Ekiti – 50%

Lagos – 50%

Ogun – 50%

Ondo – 50%

Osun – 50%

Oyo – 50%

ELDS – 50%

FACULTY OF ARTS

ENGLISH LANGUAGE

Merit 67.39%

Osun:65.1%

Oyo: 65.5%

Ondo: 66.2%

Ekiti: 63.8%

Ogun: 64.3%

Lagos : 60.8%

ELDS: 51.9%

DRAMATIC ARTS

Merit 62.05%

Osun: 58.5%

Oyo: 58.7%

Ondo: 58.7%

Ekiti: 53.1%

Ogun: 58.6%

Lagos: 57.4%

ELDS 52.8%

FRENCH

Merit 50.5%

Osun: 50%

Oyo: 50%

Ondo: 50%

Ekiti: 50%

Ogun: 50%

Lagos: 50%

ELDS: 50%

GERMAN

Merit 59%

Osun: 50%

Oyo: 50%

Ondo: 50%

Ogun: 50%

Ekiti: 50%

Lagos: 50%

ELDS: 50%

HISTORY

Merit 63%

Osun: 61.2%

Oyo: 56%

Ondo: 54%

Ekiti: 50%

Ogun: 60.15%

Lagos: 52%

ELDS: 53.5%

LINGUISTICS

Merit 62.9%

Osun: 61.9%

Oyo: 61.7%

Ondo: 58.9%

Ekiti: 57.1%

Ogun: 59.9%

Lagos: 52.1%

ELDS: 53.9%

LITERATURE IN ENGLISH

Merit 61.9%

Osun: 57%

Oyo: 57%

Ondo: 57%

Ekiti: 57%

Ogun: 57%

Lagos: 50%

ELDS: 50%

MUSIC

Merit 54.8%

Osun: 50%

Oyo: 50%

Ondo: 50%

Ekiti: 50%

Ogun: 50%

Lagos: 50%

ELDS 50%

PHILOSOPHY

Merit 60.9%

Osun: 50.9%

Oyo: 50.9%

Ondo: 50.9%

Ekiti: 50.9%

Ogun: 50.9%

Lagos: 50%

ELDS: 50%

PORTUGUESE

Merit 53.2%

Osun: 50%

Oyo: 50%

Ondo: 50%

Ekiti: 50%

Ogun: 50%

Lagos: 50%

ELDS: 50%

RELIGIOUS STUDIES

Merit 52%

Osun: 50%

Oyo: 50%

Ondo: 50%

Ekiti: 50%

Ogun: 50%

Lagos: 50%

ELDS: 50%

YORUBA

Merit 52.1%

Osun: 50%

Oyo: 50%

Ondo: 50%

Ekiti: 50%

Ogun: 50%

Lagos: 50%

ELDS: 50%

FACULTY OF EDUCATION

BIOLOGY/EDUCATION

Merit 52.5%

Ekiti – 50%

Lagos – 50%

Ogun – 50%

Ondo – 50%

Osun – 50%

Oyo – 50%

ELDS – 50%

PHYSICS/EDUCATION

Merit 50.9%

Ekiti – 50%

Lagos – 50%

Ogun – 50%

Ondo – 50%

Osun – 50%

Oyo – 50%

ELDS – 50%

CHEMISTRY/EDUCATION

Merit 52.3%

Ekiti – 50%

Lagos – 50%

Ogun – 50%

Ondo – 50%

Osun – 50%

Oyo – 50%

ELDS – 50%

MATHEMATICS/EDUCATION

Merit 52.7%

Ekiti – 50%

Lagos – 50%

Ogun – 50%

Ondo – 50%

Osun – 50%

Oyo – 50%

ELDS – 50%

MATHEMATICS/INTER SCIENCE/EDUCATION

Merit 50%

Ekiti – 50%

Lagos – 50%

Ogun – 50%

Ondo – 50%

Osun – 50%

Oyo – 50%

ELDS – 50%

HEALTH EDUCATION/EDUCATION

Merit 50%

Ekiti – 50%

Lagos – 50%

Ogun – 50%

Ondo – 50%

Osun – 50%

Oyo – 50%

ELDS – 50%

PHE/EDUCATION

Merit 50.9%

Ekiti – 50%

Lagos – 50%

Ogun – 50%

Ondo – 50%

Osun – 50%

Oyo – 50%

ELDS – 50%

ECONOMICS/EDUCATION

Merit 56%

Ekiti – 50%

Lagos – 50%

Ogun – 50%

Ondo – 50%

Osun – 50%

Oyo – 50%

ELDS – 50%

GEOGRAPHY/EDUCATION

Merit 50%

Ekiti – 50%

Lagos – 50%

Ogun – 50%

Ondo – 50%

Osun – 50%

Oyo – 50%

ELDS – 50%

POLITICAL SCIENCE/EDUCATION

Merit 52.9%

Ekiti – 50%

Lagos – 50%

Ogun – 50%

Ondo – 50%

Osun – 50%

Oyo – 50%

ELDS – 50%

GUIDANCE AND COUNSELLING/EDUCATION

Merit 53.8%

Ekiti – 50%

Lagos – 50%

Ogun – 50%

Ondo – 50%

Osun – 50%

Oyo – 50%

ELDS – 50%

HISTORY/EDUCATION

Merit 50.5%

Ekiti – 50%

Lagos – 50%

Ogun – 50%

Ondo – 50%

Osun – 50%

Oyo – 50%

ELDS – 50%

CRS/EDUCATION

Merit 53.5%

Ekiti – 50%

Lagos – 50%

Ogun – 50%

Ondo – 50%

Osun – 50%

Oyo – 50%

ELDS – 50%

ENGLISH LANGUAGE/EDUCATION

Merit 63.5%

Ekiti – 50%

Lagos – 50%

Ogun – 50%

Ondo – 50%

Osun – 50%

Oyo – 50%

ELDS – 50%

EDUCATIONAL MANAGEMENT

Merit 51.1%

Ekiti – 50%

Lagos – 50%

Ogun – 50%

Ondo – 50%

Osun – 50%

Oyo – 50%

ELDS – 50%

ADULT EDUCATION

Merit 55.7%

Ekiti – 50%

Lagos – 50%

Ogun – 50%

Ondo – 50%

Osun – 50%

Oyo – 50%

ELDS – 50%

MUSIC/EDUCATION

Merit 50%

Ekiti – 50%

Lagos – 50%

Ogun – 50%

Ondo – 50%

Osun – 50%

Oyo – 50%

ELDS – 50%

YORUBA/EDUCATION

Merit 50.7%

Ekiti – 50%

Lagos – 50%

Ogun – 50%

Ondo – 50%

Osun – 50%

Oyo – 50%

ELDS – 50%

FINE ARTS/EDUCATION

Merit 58.7%

Ekiti – 50%

Lagos – 50%

Ogun – 50%

Ondo – 50%

Osun – 50%

Oyo – 50%

ELDS – 50%

SOCIAL STUDIES/EDUCATION

Merit 55.2%

Ekiti – 50%

Lagos – 50%

Ogun – 50%

Ondo – 50%

Osun – 50%

Oyo – 50%

ELDS – 50%

FRENCH/EDUCATION

Merit 54.7%

Ekiti – 50%

Lagos – 50%

Ogun – 50%

Ondo – 50%

Osun – 50%

Oyo – 50%

ELDS – 50%

FACULTY OF EDM

Architecture

Merit – 67.8%

Ekiti – 64.8%

Lagos – 60.9%

Ogun – 66.5%

Ondo – 65.5%

Osun – 66.6%

Oyo – 67.3%

ELDS – 54.9%

Building

Merit – 51.9%

Ekiti – 50%

Lagos – 50%

Ogun – 50%

Ondo – 50%

Osun – 50%

Oyo – 50%

ELDS – 50%

Urban and Regional Planning

Merit – 51.5%

Ekiti – 50%

Lagos – 50%

Ogun – 50%

Ondo – 50%

Osun – 50%

Oyo – 50%

ELDS – 50%

Quantity Surveying

Merit – 51.2%

Ekiti – 50%

Lagos – 50%

Ogun – 50%

Ondo – 50%

Osun – 50%

Oyo – 50%

ELDS – 50%

Surveying and Geo-informatics

Merit – 55.1%

Ekiti – 53.6%

Lagos – 50%

Ogun – 54.4%

Ondo – 50%

Osun – 51.1%

Oyo – 50.5%

ELDS – 50%

Estate Management

Merit – 51%

Ekiti – 50%

Lagos – 50%

Ogun – 50%

Ondo – 50%

Osun – 50%

Oyo – 50%

ELDS – 50%

FACULTY OF SCIENCE

APPLIED GEOPHYSICS

Merit - 50%

Ekiti:50%

Lagos:50%

Ogun:50%

Ondo:50%

Osun:50%

Oyo :50%

ELDS: 50%

BIOCHEMISTRY

Merit - 63.50%

Ekiti: 60.50%

Lagos: 53.50%

Ogun: 63%

Ondo: 62.75%

Osun: 62.85%

Oyo: 62.75%

ELDS 50%

CHEMISTRY

Merit- 59.50%

Ekiti: 54%

Lagos: 59.1%

Ogun: 58%

Ondo: 53%

Osun: 58.50%

Oyo: 57.50%

ELDS: 55%

ENGINEERING PHYSICS

Merit 50%

Ekiti: 50%

Lagos: 50%

Ogun: 50%

Ondo: 50%

Osun: 50%

Oyo: 50%

ELDS: 50%

GEOLOGY

Merit 61.30%

Ekiti: 58.60%

Lagos: 61.30%

Ogun: 50.30%

Ondo: 50.60%

Osun: 61.20%

Oyo: 60%

ELDS: 59.60%

INDUSTRIAL CHEMISTRY

Merit 61.80%

Ekiti: 58.60%

Lagos: 55%

Ogun: 57.50%

Ondo: 61.50%

Osun: 61.60%

Oyo: 61.50%

ElDS: 55%

MATHEMATICS

Merit 59.10%

Ekiti: 58.30%

Lagos: 59.10%

Ogun: 56.70%

Ondo: 56.40%

Osun: 56.90%

Oyo: 58%

ELDS: 50%

MICROBIOLOGY

Merit 63.85%

Ekiti: 59%

Lagos: 54.80%

Ogun: 61.50%

Ondo: 60.90%

Osun: 62.20%

Oyo: 61%

ELDS: 51%

PHYSICS

Merit 50%

Ekiti : 50%

Lagos: 50%

Ogun: 50%

Ondo: 50%

Osun: 50%

Oyo: 50%

ELDS: 50%

STATISTICS

Merit 50%

Ekiti : 50%

Lagos: 50%

Ogun: 50%

Ondo: 50%

Osun: 50%

Oyo: 50%

ELDS: 50%

ZOOLOGY

Merit 50%

Ekiti : 50%

Lagos: 50%

Ogun: 50%

Ondo: 50%

Osun: 50%

Oyo: 50%

ELDS: 50%

FACULTY OF SOCIAL SCIENCES

Demography and Social Statistics

Merit – 51%

Ekiti – 50%

Osun – 50%

Ogun –50%

Ondo –50%

Oyo – 50%

Lagos –50%

ELDS – 50%

Economics

Merit – 64.5%

Ekiti – 60.3%

Osun – 60.3%

Ogun –60.3%

Ondo –60.3%

Oyo – 60.3%

Lagos –60.3%

ELDS – 52%

Geography

Merit – 55%

Ekiti – 50%

Osun – 50%

Ogun –50%

Ondo –50%

Oyo – 50%

Lagos –50%

ELDS – 50%

Political Science/PPE

Merit – 61.1%

Ekiti – 57.3%

Osun – 57.3%

Ogun –57.3%

Ondo –57.3%

Oyo – 57.3%

Lagos –57.3%

ELDS – 57.3%

Psychology

Merit – 53.6%

Ekiti – 50%

Osun – 50%

Ogun –50%

Ondo –50%

Oyo – 50%

Lagos –50%

ELDS – 50%

Sociology and Anthropology

Merit – 54.3%

Ekiti – 50%

Osun – 50%

Ogun –50%

Ondo –50%

Oyo – 50%

Lagos –50%

ELDS – 50%

Entrepreneur

Merit – 50%

Ekiti – 50%

Osun – 50%

Ogun –50%

Ondo –50%

Oyo – 50%

Lagos –50%

ELDS – 50%

FACULTY OF ENGINEERING

Agricultural Engineering

Merit – 60.025%

Osun – 59.30%

Oyo – 59.025%

Lagos – 52.25%

Ekiti – 53.175%

Ogun – 55.50%

Ondo – 57.875%

ELDS – 57.65%

Chemical Engineering

Merit – 68.025%

Osun – 67.525%

Oyo – 67.025%

Lagos – 62.98%

Ekiti – 66.925%

Ogun –65.80%

Ondo – 67.85%

ELDS – 65.225%

Civil Engineering

Merit – 66.025%

Osun – 64.95%

Oyo – 65.80%

Lagos – 62.95%

Ekiti – 63.15%

Ogun – 64.58%

Ondo – 63.375%

ELDS – 64.65%

Computer Science and Engineering

Merit – 65.99%

Osun – 65.37%

Oyo – 63.50%

Lagos – 63.45%

Ekiti – 64.05%

Ogun – 63.04%

Ondo – 64.80%

ELDS – 53.55%

Computer Science/Mathematics

Merit – 65.80%

Osun – 65.10%

Oyo – 65.15%

Lagos – 62.30%

Ekiti – 64.00%

Ogun – 64.275%

Ondo – 64.72%

ELDS – 64.725%

Computer Science/Economics

Merit – 63.53%

Osun – 61.125%

Oyo – 59.425%

Lagos – 61.875%

Ekiti – 63.25%

Ogun – 51.50%

Ondo – 63.53%

ELDS – 58.7%

Electrical and Electronics Engineering

Merit – 68.1%

Osun – 66.925%

Oyo – 66.50%

Lagos – 64.975%

Ekiti – 66.475%

Ogun – 67.70%

Ondo – 66.25%

ELDS – 64.825%

Food Science and Technology

Merit – 61.15%

Osun – 60.375%

Oyo – 59.40%

Lagos – 61.15%

Ekiti – 61.15%

Ogun – 58.775%

Ondo – 56.82%

ELDS – 56.40%

Material Science and Engineering

Merit – 60.11%

Osun – 58.75%

Oyo – 58.06%

Lagos – 60.11%

Ekiti – 60.11%

Ogun – 59.60%

Ondo – 53.925%

ELDS – 53.625%

Mechanical Engineering

Merit – 68.725%

Osun – 68.725%

Oyo – 67.475%

Lagos – 62.625%

Ekiti – 65.825%

Ogun – 65.65%

Ondo – 68.56%

ELDS – 60.225%

COLLEGE OF HEALTH SCIENCES

Medicine and Surgery

MERIT 78.5%

Osun- 77.63%

Ondo- 77.11%

Ekiti- 76.75%

Ogun- 75.77%

Oyo- 77.20%

Lagos- 73.45%

Kwara-77.4%

Cross River-77.1%

Benue-74.3%

Kogi-73.36%

Akwa Ibom-73.1%

Medical Rehabilitation

MERIT 71.10%

Osun- 70.38%

Ondo- 69.9%

Ekiti- 70.6%

Ogun- 67.43%

Oyo- 68.82%

Lagos 67.37%

ELDS

Kogi 68.28%

Kwara-64.95%

Nursing

MERIT 69.90%

Osun- 68.30%

Ondo- 69.05%

Ekiti- 68.62%

Ogun- 68%

Oyo- 68.14%

Lagos 64.53%

Kogi 67.05%

Kwara-68.4%

FACULTY OF PHARMACY

Merit – 73.25%

Ekiti –  66.45%

Ogun – 70.475%

Ondo – 68.575%

Osun –  69.80%

Oyo –  69.05%

Lagos – 69.475%

Benue-65.975%

Cross River 51.0%

Kogi-72.325%

Kwara 70.40%

Sokoto-58.05%

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