UNN: 66,000 candidates battle for 9,000 admission slots

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.


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

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.