University Admission & Post-UTME

School fees are what you pay per session for your education (tuition and other billed charges for that session). Acceptance fee is what you pay once, when you accept an admission offer, to confirm it and secure your place. Different purpose, different timing, different frequency — and confusing the two is how students underpay, overpay, … Read more

A remedial programme is a one-year preparatory programme, run by a university, for candidates whose O’Level results have deficiencies — missing credits, wrong subject combinations, or grades below the requirement for their target course — giving them a year to repair those deficiencies and qualify for admission into that university’s degree programmes at 100 level. … Read more

A pre-degree programme is a one-year preparatory programme run by a university (or its affiliated centre), designed to prepare candidates for admission into that university’s degree programmes — usually at 100 level, through the university’s own admission process, rather than through UTME alone. Completing a pre-degree programme does not automatically guarantee admission: it qualifies you … Read more

Post-UTME is each Nigerian university’s own screening of UTME candidates, run after JAMB’s exam and before admission: it checks that you chose the institution, meet its minimum cut-off, hold the required O’Level credits, and — depending on the institution’s format — pass its exam, its O’Level aggregate ranking, or its physical document screening. Passing Post-UTME … Read more

Part-time university admission in Nigeria lets you study for a degree alongside work or other commitments, with classes scheduled outside standard full-time hours (evenings, weekends, or concentrated blocks, depending on the programme). You are admitted through the same routes as full-time students (UTME or Direct Entry, as the programme requires), study the same curriculum over … Read more

Open university admission in Nigeria — most notably through the National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN), a federal institution, plus NUC-approved private open universities such as Miva Open University and Iconic Open University — admits students on O’Level results without UTME, with flexible, distance-based study and examinations at study centres. It is the legitimate no-UTME … Read more

Late admission — admission after the main admission window for a session has closed, or after you missed your screening, acceptance, or fee deadline — is possible only through legitimate, still-open channels: supplementary lists, change of institution or course to an institution still screening, Direct Entry or open-university routes with later windows, or a fresh … Read more

JUPEB (Joint Universities Preliminary Examinations Board) is a one-year advanced-level programme, run by accredited institutions, that prepares candidates for Direct Entry admission into Nigerian universities at 200 level — without writing UTME. You complete the JUPEB programme (three subjects plus a general studies component, as the programme structures it), sit the JUPEB examination, and use … Read more

IJMB (Interim Joint Matriculation Board) is a one-year advanced-level programme, run by accredited institutions, that prepares candidates for Direct Entry admission into Nigerian universities at 200 level — without writing UTME. You complete the IJMB programme in subjects relevant to your target course, sit the IJMB examination, and use your IJMB result — commonly reported … Read more

University admission in Nigeria works through a single central system: you write UTME with JAMB, you are screened by the institution(s) you chose, the institution proposes candidates for admission, JAMB approves the proposal on CAPS, and you accept the offer on CAPS. No step outside that system — no agent, no list, no payment — … Read more