Unibadan can only admit 3,000 out of over 29,000 candidates This Year

 

Vice Chancellor of the University of Ibadan (UI), Prof Idowu Olayinka has disclosed that only 3,000 candidates out of the over 29,000 who scored 200 and above in the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) and chose the premier university would be offered admission.

Olayinka said issues like funding, infrastructure deficit, student-lecturer ratio and limitation of Hostel accommodation were to blame for keeping the institution from going beyond this carrying capacity.

While speaking on the topic “Challenges of Building a World Class University” at the 68th Interdisciplinary Research Discourse of the Postgraduate school under the Deanship of Professor Adeyinka Aderinto, Professor Olayinka noted that Nigerian government must decide if it wants her universities to be globally competitive or not by adequately funding research and fixing infrastructural deficits bedeviling them.

The professor of Geology listed inadequate teaching and research facilities, problem of attracting and retaining top-class faculty, poor funding, overstretched infrastructure, inconsistent policy of education, inadequate suitable staff, and government attitude to education as factors affecting the global competitiveness of the university.