LATEST REPORT OF UNILORIN POST UTME

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LATEST REPORT OF UNILORIN POST UTME

Again, Unilorin tops list of most
preferred varsities
The University of Ilorin has again emerged the
nation's most preferred higher institution of
learning, having attracted far more admission
applicants than any other university in this year's
Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination
(UTME).
This is the third consecutive year that
the Better-by-far institution will be attracting the
highest number of admission seekers.
Statistics obtained from the computer-based test
conducted between February 27 and March 3
this year across 540 centres in Nigeria and eight
overseas countries showed that Unilorin
attracted 103, 238 admission seekers,
maintaining the record it had set in the last two
years. A total of 1,592,305 million candidates sat
for the examination conducted by the Joint
Admissions and Matriculation Board this year.
This revelation was contained in an exploratory
report on the 2016/2017 pre-admission exercise
by one of the nation's leading newspapers, The
Punch, entitled “Imo has highest number of
UTME candidates”.
In its edition of Tuesday, June 14, 2016, the
newspaper reported that “UNILORIN, as in the
last two years, still occupies the first slot in
terms of attracting the highest number of
applicants. One hundred and three thousand, two
hundred and thirty-eight candidates applied to
study in the university this year”.
According to the report, the University of Benin,
Benin City, with 81,363 applicants came second
while Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, with 75,383
candidates, came third.
The University of Nigeria, Nsukka, attracted
65,954 candidates to place fourth, while Bayero
University, Kano, with 64,220 applicants, and
Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, with 61,862
candidates came fifth and sixth respectively.
The University of Lagos (Unilag), with 60,659
candidates, is placed seventh while the nation's
premier university, the University of Ibadan (UI),
with 59,176 candidates, came eighth. In last
year's rankings, 68-year-old UI was placed
seventh while UNILAG was fifth.
Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, retained the
ninth position it occupied in 2015. This year, it
attracted 45,924 candidates.
The University of Jos, which was not among the
top 10 most preferred universities in 2015,
improved on its rankings, placing 10th this year
with 40,366 candidates.
For the private universities, the Covenant
University, Ota; Afe Babalola University, Ado-
Ekiti; Babcock University, Ilishan-Remo; and
Igbinedion University, Okada, Edo State, occupied
the first four positions in terms of attracting
candidates' interest. They had 2, 586; 1,304,
1,248 and 418 candidates in that order.
Missing on the top 10 private universities among
candidates this year, are the Bell University, Ota,
owned by former President Olusegun Obasanjo,
and the American University of Nigeria, Yola,
founded by former Vice-President, Atiku
Abubakar.
The Madonna University, Okija, Anambra State
(370); Bowen University, Iwo (329); Al-Qalam
University, Katsina (308) and the Baze University,
FCT (277) came fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth
in that order.
The Bingham University, Karu, with 247
candidates, and Benson Idahosa University, Benin
City, with 204 candidates, occupied the ninth and
10th positions, out of the over 60 private
universities in the country.
Meanwhile, the report also showed that Imo
State indigenes topped the list of applicants that
sat for this year's UTME with a total of
104,383candidates (about 6.56 per cent) of the
1,592,305 million candidates that sat for the
examination conducted by the Joint Admissions
and Matriculation Board this year.
Delta State came second on the table with
78,854 candidates (4.95) in the examination.
The third on the table is Anambra State, which
produced 77,694 or 4.88 per cent of the
candidates.
In the examination, Osun State had 72,752
candidates, placing it in the fourth position.
The statistics also revealed that Oyo State, with
72,298 candidates (4.54 per cent), came fifth,
while Enugu State placed sixth with 69,381
candidates or 4.36 per cent.
In the seventh position is Edo State with 66,107
or 4.15 per cent of the candidates, while Ogun
State placed eighth with 62,973 candidates.
Akwa Ibom State, which placed ninth, had 62,369
candidates, while Benue State, in the 10th
position, led the pack from the 19 states in the
North with 60,160 candidates.
Kogi State placed 11th on the rankings with
57,694 candidates, whereas Kwara State, which
accommodates the University of Ilorin, had
54,606 candidates, placing 12th among the 36
states of the federation.
Still on the rankings, the lowest 10 states in
terms of applicants are Niger, Borno, Taraba,
Adamawa, Jigawa, Yobe, Sokoto, Kebbi, Zamfara
and FCT.
While 18,231 Niger State indigenes applied for
tertiary education this year, Borno and Taraba
states had 15,697 and 15,672 candidates
respectively. Adamawa, Jigawa, Yobe and Sokoto
had 15, 615, 12,664, 10,045, and 10,006 in that
order. FCT had only 4,087 candidates.
Meanwhile, of the 1,592,305 million candidates
that sat for the examination, only 68,481
candidates applied to study Education.
Social Sciences topped the Faculty table with
362,567 candidates.
The breakdown further reveals that whereas
336,694 candidates sought to study Medicine,
95,182 others applied to study Law.
Engineering/Technical/Environmental courses
with 228,195 candidates attracted a higher
number of applicants than Administration and
Arts/Humanities, which posted 88,029
candidates.
Similarly, 217,150 candidates considered
Sciences this year, while only 25,445 of the
1,592,305 million candidates applied to study
Agriculture.

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