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Thank you very much. Instead of the people to be sober, they are jumping up and down. What you should be asking yourself is what is the carrying capacity of those universities versus the number of applicants?

In 1981, we had one federal university in lagos state, one in kaduna state and one in sokoto state

Today, with a population of over 20 million lagos state still has one federal university and the other one still barely commencing academic programs and some people a knocking their heads on the wall that they approved another university for lagos state

Now juxtapose this with old kaduna state now kaduna and katsina

1. ABU
2. NDA
3. Air force
4. University of education
5. University of Kachia
6. University of medical sciences katsina
7. Transport university
8. Federal university katsina

Now look at sokoto state

1. Usmandan fodio University
2. Federal university birini kebbi
3. Federal University Gusau
4 University of agriculture zuru
5. University of heaith sciences Tsafe

You will collect cit from lagos, fiam it goes, you will collect vat from lagos fiam it goes, you will collect customs duty from lagos fiam it goes

You will now leave their children to be fighting for admission coming out with bloodied nose most times yet no admission whereas people in kaduna state are strolling into the universities as if they are walking in the park

Cut off for medicine in most sw universities is about 280 while in kaduna state you are good to go with 240. Nursing is about 270 in sw and like 210 in the federal university in the north. Parents are now forced to have a recourse to an exorbitant fee paying private and state university

So why are my people rejoicing?

AustineE1:
I wonder why the noise about LASU or UniLag being the most sort after when the population of Lagos is 3 or 4 larger times larger than an average state in Nigeria. The only other state to compete with Lagos, could have been Kano state but because the north has not fully embraced education,Lagos certainly is in a world of his own in terms of population.

dgitrader:
Lagos high population and Insecurity on the highways and far places is also a factor.

Is it my fault that your region is not safe?

RichDad1:
What happened to UNN, IMSU, NAU?

Only our blodas go there

AustineE1:
I wonder why the noise about LASU or UniLag being the most sort after when the population of Lagos is 3 or 4 larger times larger than an average state in Nigeria. The only other state to compete with Lagos, could have been Kano state but because the north has not fully embraced education,Lagos certainly is in a world of his own in terms of population.

South West is the safest region, period!

Please, carry your needless explanation commot here

datola:
Chief, UNILAG is popular because it is in Lagos and most people will find it more convenient to choose it instead of travelling all the way to Ile-Ife for a much rigorous academic, hence the competition.

This is the same reason LASU is now the most sought after. Who/what is LASU compared to OAU, UI, UNN, FUTA, FUTO, etc.

Insecurity in Kwara state contributed to UNILORIN's drop.

What do you mean what is LASU. Go there and see those who scored over 300 in UTME studying. They go for inter uni competitions and beat Federal Unis hands down. Do your research and stop wallowing in ignorance.

Armaggedon:
I Will tell you the reason. It borders more on the affordability of higher education in the southwest. The cheaper the school in the southwest, the more the demand. It's not about prestige or education tourism. most native southwesterners choose schools based on cost. That is why federal universities in the southwest dominate the list including the new one in oye ekiti unlike the east where people are more willing to explore states and even private unis. Easterners form a very significant, if not the highest student population of southwest private unis and then form an overwhelmingly majority of the student population in the fast emerging private university education sector in the east.

There are several factors that resulted in this stat but affordability issues pushed native southwesterners into cheaper federal unis, leaving their private unis and that of the east for Easterners to occupy. You can confirm this from southwest nelfund application figures.

No be only affordability. It's about prestige. Choke on that.

Saladdin:
Good to know. Now kindly enlighten us on the unique programs/activities/propositions that they offer, and is not offered or largely absent from Federal Universities in Nigeria?

Thanks.

Go to LASU and do your research. To get admitted into LASU IS no joke. Many of the students admitted into competitive courses scored 300 and above. LASU has prestige. Stop living in the past. Levels don change.

datola:
Chief, UNILAG is popular because it is in Lagos and most people will find it more convenient to choose it instead of travelling all the way to Ile-Ife for a much rigorous academic, hence the competition.

This is the same reason LASU is now the most sought after. Who/what is LASU compared to OAU, UI, UNN, FUTA, FUTO, etc.

Insecurity in Kwara state contributed to UNILORIN's drop.

Many of the applicants are actually from outside of Lagos State.

tollyboy5:
So why was LASU not the most sought after some years ago?
If you care to explain

LASU got better in facilities, infrastructure and academia. Now is not some years ago. LASU stepped up. Applicants who scored over 300 in UTME are now opting for LASU.

Thank you. That's the ignorance that I don't understand. I still recall attending a wedding in one of the rich parts of Ibadan several years ago and many of the kids along that axis were in UNILAG law, medicine, engineering, accounting, computer science etc alongside the expected large number from UI, Ife and Ilorin. I was surprised as these are Ibadan born and bred guys. Even their current governor in Oyo State was a local homeboy who chose UNILAG engineering.

Digmygold:
Many of the applicants are actually from outside of Lagos State.

Digmygold:
Many of the applicants are actually from outside of Lagos State.

Yes. Lagos is safe and more accessible to most Nigerians.

Lahos is the land of opportunities

You stat getting gigs even while still an Ug

Digmygold:
Go to LASU and do your research. To get admitted into LASU IS no joke. Many of the students admitted into competitive courses scored 300 and above. LASU has prestige. Stop living in the past. Levels don change.

Hmmm...I just asked a simple question and you immediately put up a defensive posture. I never said that the university has low/no prestige. I totally have no misgivings about LASU. Not at all. What got my attention was when he made that bold claim that LASU has what NO federal and uni in Nigeria possess. When I asked what's that, did you saw any reply from him?

I simply asked that what set it uniquely apart from tier 1 unis in Nigeria and the guy refused to give any single reason.

For instance, if someone asks an UI, UNN or ABU student or alumni, what's sets the uni apart, they'll start giving you many features and USPs (true or not) right off the bat without telling me to go on a a 60-days data gathering exercise inside the campus to get those features.

That's the premise of my question, just one USP and not him making indefensible claims and fleeing when questioned.

DesireV:
You're sha cooking the "facts" in your head to make you feel good.
There is this saying that if you want to lure a Yoruba man, build a school where you want him to be. Cost is the least of the factors driving those people's choice of where to study. Typical SW parents will sell belongings and inheritance to send children to good schools.

And yes, SW has most high quality schools. See that FUOYE dragging top spots with first generation schools? It's a 4th or 5th gen school established during Jonathan period. None of the ones established together with it can move close to it today. This shows the kind of attention those people give to schools.

Quite a number of people from other geopolitical zones making waves had contact with SW education. Lolll.
Check those top UTME scorers and see where they had their secondary education.

There are other things the zone may not have, there is no perfect society but you see education, they have hacked it

you think FUOYE is more prestigious than many second generation federal universities? Is it even more established than ekiti state university? No! The simple reason it has far more applicants than ekiti state university is that EKSU's fee is three times higher than FUOYE. You think if afe babalola fee is cheaper than FUOYE ekiti people won't flood it? It's more about affordability. It's not exactly the same way in the east.

Last should rank among g the tops in Africa! This is Lagos state school nah, the richest statei n the country.

georgeakins:
Is it my fault that your region is not safe?

Don't be pained, I did not publish the article. Just stating the obvious. Take paracetamol

Armaggedon:
you think FUOYE is more prestigious than many second generation federal universities? Is it even more established than ekiti state university? No! The simple reason it has far more applicants than ekiti state university is that EKSU's fee is three times higher than FUOYE. You think if afe babalola fee is cheaper than FUOYE ekiti people won't flood it? It's more about affordability. It's not exactly the same way in the east.

I don't think, I know.
Your reasoning is wrapped in tribal supremacist colouration rather than the obvious and facts. With your argument, do you mean good private universities in the East have more Igbo students than UNN,UNIZIK and co?

A rich man, irrespective of tribe, will seek the best education for his children anyhwere. This has absolutely nothing to do with tribe. As low as literacy level in the North seems, Baze and Nile universities in Abuja are dominated by Northern students. Rich Northerners pay huge to send their children to schools in Egypt, Turkey, even Sudan.

FUOYE as we type is more prestigious than a lot of second generation universities. You can make your findings.

Go to the campuses of those schools on the list, you can conveniently say something loudly in Yoruba and get a random person to answer you, even those outside the SW. That you claimed Easterners form the highest population of students in SW private Unis confirms your ignorance of the topic. You clearly have not been to any of these schools before. I seriously doubt you have been to more than 2 tertiary institution campuses before. You obviously lack the necessary exposure for the discourse and I'm sorry I won't reply your further mention.

Go to any good private institution anywhere in this country, Yorubas are very many there. They are the most numerous in those expensive ones in SW especially.

Once again, If you want to lure the Yorubas, simply build a school where you want them to be. Not only in Nigeria but anywhere on this planet, they do education best,they have hacked it.

LASU no be school abeg