UNIZIK seeks NUC’s approval to admit more student

BY VINCENT UJUMADU
AWKA – Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka has applied to the National Universities Commission, NUC, for
approval to admit about 9,000 fresh students in the next academic session .
Vice-Chancellor of the university, Prof Boniface Egboka, at a briefing described as pitiable, a situation where out of over 80,000 candidates who participated in
the post-UTME and were qualified to gain admission, only about 3,700 would be admitted.
According to him, the institution had been following strictly the admission guidelines of 60:40 for science and arts courses as directed by the Federal
Government, as well as the stipulated percentages for merit, catchment and disadvantaged areas, but insisted
that there was need to give the youths
who desire tertiary education more
opportunities.
Using the faculties of medicine and law as examples, Egboka said out of the 2,000 candidates that scored up to 291 in the matriculation examination and were qualified to study medicine andsurgery, only 100 would make it, while only 180 students would be admitted for law out of 3000 that scored above 280.