Do you know that states are highly favored over each other in different departments in the university of Lagos. Here is what I mean, there are some states which if you claim as your state of origin gives you an edge over others from other state in your course of choice. For example, In 2007, the aggregate cut-off mark released for business administration was 64.5, but if you are from Ekiti state you only need an aggregate score of 59.5 to get admitted, Lagos 62.1, Ogun state 62.7, Ondo state 60.5, Oyo state 63.1 while Osun state 63.0. In the department of sociology, the released aggregate cut-off mark was 62.0, but if you are from Ekiti state you only need 60.0, Lagos 59.9, Ogun state 59.8, Ondo 58.7, Oyo 59.9, Osun state 59.5 and so on and so forth, and i can tell you that this is how it is every year.

So how will this help you?

Find out the highest catched state in your course of choice, then you can claim to be from that state by obtaining relevant documents that will validate your indigeneship of that state. I think this will work best with students with yoruba names because its only the south west states that benefit from the catchment programme in the University of Lagos. Believe this works like magic, you will be surprised at how helpful this will be to you.

for student that are not from any of the south west states, there is also a programme that will make your admission into Unilag very easy (the free lunch is for everybody), only if you know how to go about it.

Looking forward to see you on campus.