Findings show that many students have misaligned expectations, economist refer to it as irrational expectations. These they say is due to misinformation or lack of information about their academic ability or effect on their lives.

in a survey of students in a higher institution in Nigeria, students said their expectations were met by the institution could not specifically state iin which aspect and the ones that said the school did not meet their expectation, said the building was not attractive enough.

Strangely, they did not complain about quality of lectures, material, library and books, laboratory equipments, exam feedback, competence of lecturersm or objective assessments.

This means students are looking for admission in different school with wrong or no expectations.

When you suposedly complete your studies, how do you measure that the service you cam to the school for has been provided.

Before you choose a course or school, learn your capability and have an expectation. Life is short too for anyone to have so many disappointments.

Those that were struggling to study medicine without the mental capability for it, eventually drop out to study something is social sciences after they seat for MB exams twice.


Everyone wants to be termed as successful and so wants to study the course of successful professionals in the society. Doctor, lawyer, architecht, engineer etc. However, these professions is not for anybody or everybody, you must be very smart. We cant afford to have incompetent professionals.
Please find what you can be very good at doing. It does not make you less successful.

a Cisco certified network administrator is a professional, there is MCP, MCSE, MSDBA, A+ and more. You can be a programmer, DBA and many others.

Information Technology welcomes you to become a professional in I.T. with option self-employment. Its a respectable job in a modern industry.

@Highland College of technology, Ibadan. You can get your ND, HND/B.Tech and before you finish you will be a certified professional. Find Highland Tech on the internet.

This topic is not really about Highland Tech.

I want to use this medium collate people's opinion on expectations from their Higher Institution. Without making any distinction between type of institution, whether it is a univeristy, a polytechnic or College of Education/ Technology, Technical College.

I really will like you to share your expectations from the school (higher institution) you are in now or the one you want to attend.

Please share us, What is you expectation?

Some university in the UK and US as part of Total Quality Management, see students as their customers, even though some educationists argue that for students to be treated as customers they need to have expectations.

If you dont have expectations it may be difficult to satisfy you as a student.

Please share your expections and in one word of (yes/No) tell us if you are currently satisfied with your higher institution.

Thank you again.