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If you are seeking university admission in Nigeria, or you just gained admission to study any of these courses, and you are from a humble background, draw closer and hold your ears. Yes, I said hold your ears! Make sure you graduate with a First Class. Second Class Upper and Lower are not options.

If you know say you go graduate with 3rd Class, you better use your 100L school fees to start POS business.

Except you know that your background is solid, and you can easily start up any trade, project, or business venture, a First Class Is NOT optional; it is highly required. It will open doors for you no matter your course of study. Organizations that sponsor scholarships are not Father Christmas. They look critically at your grades.

I have listed the courses below:

1. Public Administration
2. Mass Communication
3. Microbiology
4. Linguistics
5. Zoology
6. Sociology
7. Parasitology and Entomology
8. Psychology
9. Philosophy
10. History or Religious Studies
11. International Relations
12. Political Science
13. Any Nigerian language
14. Anthropology
15. English

Someone with a First Class in the courses listed above has access to more opportunities than someone who has 2.1 or 2.2 in a professional course like Law or Engineering.

Just face the primary thing wey carry you come school. Nor let anybody whine you say school na scam. Education gives you access to opportunities, and gives you an analytical mind to judge outcomes in a complex society.

In Nigeria, knowledge transfer is secondary to rationing of grades or relating bad experiences from one generation to another.

CodeTemplar:
In Nigeria, knowledge transfer is secondary to rationing of grades or relating bad experiences from one generation to another.

How do you mean? Can you give a brief insight?

Rapmoney:
How do you mean? Can you give a brief insight?

Knowledge transfer and advancement are the two main task of the university system. We relegate transfer of knowledge and focus on rationing how many first class can emerge thinking that makes our standard higher compared to elsewhere where many first class are made. Over time, the minds of the awarders of grade and source of knowledge begin to shift towards grade rationing. They present faded notes and see nothing wrong because transfer of knowledge in fullswing will bring about the not-so-desired outcome of many first class. As time goes, it becomes a culture. The uni system is centred around knowledge growth via research and impartation of same, while polytechnics are suppose to complement that with skill acquisition which takes shorter period.

As for bad experiences from generation to generation. I have few experiences.
A lecturer comes to take us a course in year three and starts complaining about how public schools are more rigorous and all that popular bullshit people pull private schools down with. Thats the first red flag. The issue is this same lecturer(heard he attended UNN) is he gives a faded note/handout with the justification of thats how it was in their time and in public schools. Imagjne a handout of 50 pages with about 25 badly faded pages that almost no one can see what written on them. The justification is that, thats how it was in their time. Am i in school to taste your bad experiences and challenges or to get knowledge?

First class emphasis and competition is not being handled healthily by Africans.

Saying a First Class in Sociology is SUPERIOR to a 2.1 in Law is DELUSIONAL.

The courses listed by the OP are some of the MOST USELESS courses anybody can study in Nigeria TODAY.
Regardless of what they graduate with.

IF you have kids, mentees or siblings looking for admission; this is a perfect list of courses to AVOID.

Unless their main target is POVERTY and UNEMPLOYMENT.

Also, getting a First Class Degree in English is almost IMPOSSIBLE.

I attended a School that's nearly 40 years old and they'd NEVER had a First Class Graduate in their English Department.

CodeTemplar:
Knowledge transfer and advancement are the two main task of the university system. We relegate transfer of knowledge and focus on rationing how many first class can emerge thinking that makes our standard higher compared to elsewhere where many first class are made. Over time, the minds of the awarders of grade and source of knowledge begin to shift towards grade rationing. They present faded notes and see nothing wrong because transfer of knowledge in fullswing will bring about the not-so-desired outcome of many first class. As time goes, it becomes a culture. The uni system is centred around knowledge growth via research and impartation of same, while polytechnics are suppose to complement that with skill acquisition which takes shorter period.

As for bad experiences from generation to generation. I have few experiences.
A lecturer comes to take us a course in year three and starts complaining about how public schools are more rigorous and all that popular bullshit people pull private schools down with. Thats the first red flag. The issue is this same lecturer(heard he attended UNN) is he gives a faded note/handout with the justification of thats how it was in their time and in public schools. Imagjne a handout of 50 pages with about 25 badly faded pages that almost no one can see what written on them. The justification is that, thats how it was in their time. Am i in school to taste you bad experiences and challenges or to get knowledge?

First class emphasis and competition is not being handled healthily by Africans.

Okay. I understand you now.

You missed one useless course that I see the students stress themselves so much over for nothing. In my undergraduate days, I had a neighbour that studied the course and this guy was always stressed and sometimes he went to school on Saturday while we were playing football in the lodge. I'm talking about Theater Arts. If you get admission for that course, you better go learn handwork than waste your time.

Nonsense

What's first class without skills...Most of today's CEOs in my set finished with 2.2

The era of paper certificate is gone...be a problem solver

A first class in any subject doesn't guarantee you success in life.

Rapmoney:
Someone with a First Class in the courses listed above has access to more opportunities than someone who has 2.1 or 2.2 in a professional course like Law or Engineering.

Keep deceiving young people on Nairaland.

The moment I saw Linguistic, I know the op is a joker.
My wife graduated with that course few years back from one of the most prestigious universities in Nigeria, OAU.
She was only fortunate to be one of about 8 that made 2nd class upper, all others were 2nd class lower and Pass.
So where will First Class even come from?

Nonsense

Op this is 2026

Rapmoney:
If you are seeking university admission in Nigeria, or you just gained admission to study any of these courses, and you are from a humble background, draw closer and hold your ears. Yes, I said hold your ears! Make sure you graduate with a First Class. Second Class Upper and Lower are not options.

If you know say you go graduate with 3rd Class, you better use your 100L school fees to start POS business.

Except you know that your background is solid, and you can easily start up any trade, project, or business venture, a First Class Is NOT optional; it is highly required. It will open doors for you no matter your course of study. Organizations that sponsor scholarships are not Father Christmas. They look critically at your grades.

I have listed the courses below:

1. Public Administration
2. Mass Communication
3. Microbiology
4. Linguistics
5. Zoology
6. Sociology
7. Parasitology and Entomology
8. Psychology
9. Philosophy
10. History or Religious Studies
11. International Relations
12. Political Science
13. Any Nigerian language
14. Anthropology
15. English

Someone with a First Class in the courses listed above has access to more opportunities than someone who has 2.1 or 2.2 in a professional course like Law or Engineering.

Just face the primary thing wey carry you come school. Nor let anybody whine you say school na scam. Education gives you access to opportunities, and gives you an analytical mind to judge outcomes in a complex society.

Have you ever bothered to ask yourself why every country with an unstable and unreliable g ohovernment has a low investment on education?

Nawao !!
In this nairaland
Person go just open thread dey talk wetin no make sense from nowhere

Lol... Although not too lucrative in Nigeria but zoology is difficult man, ask anyone that offered d course.. Same with parasitology and entomology...... If you see anyone who has a first class in zoology, respect the person o... I have a lot of friends who read the course and are doing well outside the country

Nwaikpe:
Keep deceiving young people on Nairaland.

I have told you for free. A First Class in any of the listed courses is better than a 2.1 or 2.2 in Law or Engineering.

Rapmoney:
Okay. I understand you now.

I don't think you do. You couldn't even engage. lol

It's actually difficult to make a first class in some of the courses you mentioned, and this is Nigeria, An International Relations student with a 2.1 can get a job faster than a First Class graduate of Mathematics.

psychologist:
Nonsense

Op this is 2026

No, we are in 1924. I am lost.

Who's this one that keeps coming up with misinformed topics and the ignorant nairaland mods keep pushing it to frontpage.

tollyboy5:
I don't think you do. You couldn't even engage. lol

Engage what? Must I type a long epistle to state my comprehension? That you understand something doesn't mean you concur.

I really support you , you are 100% right

Namaster:
Saying a First Class in Sociology is SUPERIOR to a 2.1 in Law is DELUSIONAL.

The courses listed by the OP are some of the MOST USELESS courses anybody can study in Nigeria TODAY.
Regardless of what they graduate with.

IF you have kids, mentees or siblings looking for admission; this is a perfect list of courses to AVOID.

Unless their main target is POVERTY and UNEMPLOYMENT.

Also, getting a First Class Degree in English is almost IMPOSSIBLE.

I attended a School that's nearly 40 years old and they'd NEVER had a First Class Graduate in their English Department.

Poor academic lecturers and professors produce lesser first class. They can't transfer knowledge

erad:
Who's this one that keeps coming up with misinformed topics and the ignorant nairaland mods keep pushing it to frontpage.

Are you studying any of the listed courses? Study hard.

I made First Class in Medicine and Surgery though...







Don't doubt me, go and ask Tinupoo!

Remove English and sociology. If you know what you are doing in life, you will go far with those two courses.

Most Nigerians don't read to understand. See how they clearly ignored the issue of humble background I clearly stated.

The time has come where the only thing you need out of school is the ability to read and write. Once you are able to read and write, with the advent of AI and practical apprenticeship and every tech stuffs available, you are good to go. University will become useless soon.

When you get to the outside world first class doesn’t matter. Na Grace Deyore important. A lot of efiko’s back in the days for school dem Dey ask us for small thing now. Let’s ask for Grace mostly.

Education in Nigeria is not functional, even the so called 1st class graduates don't turn out as educated.

Tell me, what's the point?? 😏