The first thing to consider about private unis is that there is obviously no federal or state budget allocations; this means they have to generate funds internally. I will just go straight to the point using CU as my case study;

Source for funds; I know that CU generates everything within the school from student fees. I find it absurd that we can even compare them with federal schools. The first point to note is that the overall school student population is about 7000.

1.Generation of power: Most private school have electricity generated through out the night everyday for halls of residence and for CU includes 24 hours at weekends, of course, for this to be sustainable a lot of power has to be generated for the thousands of laptops plugged, the irons and cooking. Also note that for CU, the departments always have light at any time of the day either the PHCN cooperates or not. There are also internet facilities in all the areas of the school.IT enthusiast will agree that this will be an expensive infrastructure to maintain

2.Construction Projects: The new senate building is valued at 353million naira (http://www.dutumgroup.com/project/senate-building-of-covenant-university/), and in the last two years, CU had about 3 major constructions like such

3.Maintenance and Payment of staffs: All the workers have to be paid. CU is swept daily and every part of the school is included and toilets are also washed on daily basis. For any major event in the school, the hole school will be cleaned before 10am the next morning, you can imagine the manpower. You also can imagine the amount that will be paid to these workers including security men and lecturers. Will all these amount fall from the sky?

Hence, to whom much is given, much is expected. With all these things in place with the fact that the lecturers are mandated to teach and you are examined on what is taught as it is done in every normal setting in the world, there is no reason for hardworking students not to be rewarded. Also, the system is transparent and this makes it easy for you to seek for re-appraisal of your grades.

I would just like to say that the corrosion in the public sector should not be something to celebrate. We all deserve fair operation in the institution. The truth remains that either private unis are hated or loved, they are here to stay and they are getting the job done. So there is really no joy in boasting about how hard it is to get a first class in your uni. Every other part of the world rewards diligence. When it comes down to it,out of 200 first class candidates across 25 universities considered for Presidential Special Scholarship Scheme for Innovation and Development, 9 came from CU which is the highest number from a school and they topped a year before also (http://campusportalng.com/cu/covenant-university-graduates-tops-presidential-scholarship-scheme/16550/#ixzz45STeL3bW).

Call it any name you want, these schools are making progress in their short time of being around. I am sure I missed some other vital points , I just felt issues like this should be addressed.

I added some pictures of Covenant University(CU) below

Based on experience, i realise most of these public uni students beeef priv schs. Most times its out of envy, for the fact that your parents are not privileged to send u to one, should not make u bad-mouth them.
The only difference between the two is, education is carried out in a more condusive and principled environment than the other.

Nice write up..op.

Thank you for this write up. I've been seeing people complaining about the fees paid in private universities. Such people don't consider things like this and just post without thinking. And I have noticed that many people hate private universities, for reasons I do not know,some claiming that their standards are too low compared to public institutions.
The truth is private universities are organized and provide a conducive environment for learning. As such, excellent grades from such universities should not be a surprise.

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dulux07:
Based on experience, i realise most of these public uni students beeef priv schs. Most times its out of envy, for the fact that your parents are not privileged to send u to one, should not make u bad-mouth them.
The only difference between the two is, education is carried out in a more condusive and principled environment than the other.

Nice write up..op.

based on experience, public uni rejects take private uni as consolation.
why would i bad-mouth one who is "priviledged" out of envy for being a priv uni undergraduate when i'm also priviledge to get same on merit in a public uni where most politicians run their second, third, fourth and even fifth degree.
our anger is "we suffer more" and so let them take their "first class" off our faces.

ok

And so?
Does that justify why 400+ students will graduate with a first class out of 1000 graduands?
Private universities are the remote cause of our fall in educational standard.
I stand to be corrected!

Hahahhaha.. electricity money and infrastructure thats the reason for the high first class turnouts... please.
In spite of the huge turn outs of first class students ask yourselves this. Why has none of the private schools made the best universities in World if the quality of education is as you argue it is.
Also remember many of the lecturers were pulled form the public schools which would mean its still the same quality of edication you get from the public schools with less stress of course
Lastly in spite of all the bragging on the quality of education in the private schools Im still yet to hear of any remarkable breakthrough in the field of research, science or technology achieved by any product of these schools.
Just saying

Wat abt the state schools paying s high as private schools.

I rep salem university lokoja

maputohq:

based on experience, public uni rejects take private uni as consolation.

Please tell them.
They should also remember that any notable scholar in Nigeria today, any innovation recognized from Nigeria was done by a product of the public universities.

dulux07:
Based on experience, i realise most of these public uni students beeef priv schs. Most times its out of envy, for the fact that your parents are not privileged to send u to one, should not make u bad-mouth them.
The only difference between the two is, education is carried out in a more condusive and principled environment than the other.

Nice write up..op.

Lol
There are three groups of people that go to Private University...

1. People that couldn't get admission into Public Universities or their desired course

2. People that are wealthy and believe private uni is the most suitable place for them

3.People that are just average/below average in finance, but their parents forced them to attend a private Uni maybe due to bad behavior, or fear that Public Uni will corrupt their Children ......

I attended a Public University, I have never regretted it... I have nothing against those in Private Uni...

Why it seems Private Universities are mocked by Public uni students is that, public uni students believe that private schools are glorified secondary schools nd are not up to standards in terms of Exams, social activities nd other University lifestyles..

My friend once wrote an aptitude test in Madonna University, can you believe the questions he was being asked... - are you a cultist, and what type of Cult are you in, name the cult, can your Father /spouse pay the school fees.. Nd sh?t like that ..
Come OAU, unilag, FUTO, uniben, FUTA etc come see postume questions u go madt, with limited time on top the matter.....

When I was in NYSC camp, this Private University stuff also generated tension, nd Foreign trained graduates..(but how will some1 who went to school in Togo, Cotonou, Ghana, Somalia, Sudan etc be forming foreign trained , Abegiii the are ECOWAS TRAINED ) FOREIGN trained na Canada, USA, UK, South Africa, Egypt, France, Germany......... Not Kuame Nkuruma University (I know it is a great school) ... ...... Wetin I need hear na Massachusetts Institute of Technology , Manitoba uni, Swansea uni, hull city uni.... Lol....

Who private uni don epp??

Walahitalahi OP.
Private schools to me are very much easier to scale thru and pass out with Firstclass. Come and try fed uni and you'd know that these two classes ain't singing and dancing to the same tune.
I Rep UNILORIN

Who are the lecturers that teach in private Universities? Are they not from these same public Universities? Are they not products of public Universities? How come they work better in private Universities? Truth is you can never compare the well laid down institutional frameworks in most private Universities with the jungle system in public Universities. OK unilag was just closed.... Why? Will that closure assist their best minds to do better? When last was Babcock, covenant, etc closed? Don't even want to mention Great ife. Oba Adaniduro University. The first class produced in private Universities are good! At least academically. They may be dumb in others aspects but that is a general trait of most 1st class holders. Also don't tell me u met one olodo from one private University or the other during NYSC or at work, so what? Haven't we seen graduates from public Universities, even UI, that can't string together a simple sentence correctly? Or which institutions produced our half baked primary school teachers? Even lecturers in public Universities now run to private Universities to run their PhD programs! That's to tell you how hopeless the public educational system is.
In terms of research output and innovation, private schools will get there shortly at least no private university in Nigeria is up to 20 years old. How old is UI, Ife and UNN again? Imagine what covenant, Babcock, Bowen, igbinedion will look like in the next 2 decades....

lufemi:



The truth remains that either private unis are hated or loved, they are here to stay and they are getting the job done. So there is really no joy in boasting about how hard it is to get a first class in your uni. Every other part of the world rewards diligence. When it comes down to it,out of 200 first class candidates across 25 universities considered for Presidential Special Scholarship Scheme for Innovation and Development, 9 came from CU which is the highest number from a school

Well, most private Uni students are rejected ones from Admission processes in Fed and some sate unis. That's why we don't take their Firstclass claims serious. Who dem epp

Anybody who complaints about private school's high fees is either biased or too poor to afford the payment. For God's sake, it's private investment, and the owner deserves befitting returns from his investment, hence, their high fees. Also, it's not interfered nor assisted by the govt, so, they have to look for ways to have their needs met, ranging from maintenance of the school and payment of their staffs.


If one
can afford it, it's OK, if one can't, public schools are there, they are also OK. But it's not good to badmouth the private universities because of their high fees, nobody is forced to attend.

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Fact is many of us who attended/attend public institutions have been hardwired to think graduating with a good grade is such a big deal. This is because of the abuse of power by lecturers in public institutions. These lecturers deliberately make a fuss out of easy courses, scare students and set exams in such a way that several would fail. Sometimes they reduce your score or fail you outrightly. Imagine a lecturer telling his students before exams that nobody will get an A in his course. A lecturer of mine would hardly give an A no matter what you write, even when you churn out facts from both textbooks and notes. Makes you wonder, "what fvcking else does this man want from me?" I remember taking CHM 101 in my first year. This was practically basic chemistry. There was nothing in the course I didn't know before, but we had about 3 lecturers handling it and they made such a fuss of this course such that freshers failed en masse at the end of the day.

It is hard for us to accept that private universities like CU only do things the right way. It's more convenient to say they're substandard. It isn't so hard to get a first class or second class upper, provided you're studious. That's why many Nigerians perform excellently in universities abroad. Cut out the excesses of lecturers and public institutions will probably churn out more first class students.

Op, Ok.

dulux07:
Based on experience, i realise most of these public uni students beeef priv schs. Most times its out of envy, for the fact that your parents are not privileged to send u to one, should not make u bad-mouth them.
The only difference between the two is, education is carried out in a more condusive and principled environment than the other.

Nice write up..op.

SMH

On point.

Hmmm

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maputohq:

based on experience, public uni rejects take private uni as consolation.
why would i bad-mouth one who is "priviledged" out of envy for being a priv uni undergraduate when i'm also priviledge to get same on merit in a public uni where most politicians run their second, third, fourth and even fifth degree.
our anger is "we suffer more" and so let them take their "first class" off our faces.

that's a candid submission.
And thanks for being honest about this.

nice write up!

I attended a federal university and i didn't learn jack shitt!. My lodge was robbed twice in 3 years and one of my housemate had his hand chopped off. We were over 300 in a class that shouldn't take more than 80 people.
Lecturers were Gods and we feared them. Merely looking at them "wrongly" could earn you 2 extra years.
One lecturer failed me from first year to third year and only passed me in my final year. The reason for this i can't explain.
The course was dirt cheap but for reasons best known to him, he failed me and some select few from first year to final year.

Its only in public universities that lecturers set tests randomly and use that to grade her students.
Its only in public Universities that you will take an exam in first year and only see the result in third year and you will still fail.
What about cultism and rape? its like a normal thing in most public schools!

Please, you cannot compare the good private schools with the public schools in Nigeria.
Schools like covenant are leading the way while others follow. Forget all the rankings.

If i was an employer, i would give everyone equal opportunity but if i must pick, candidates from REPUTABLE private schools would be my first choice

Well, you've said well OP. But the major grudge is that the playing field isn't level for both.

Imagine a situation where you're given bulky materials to read a week b4 exam in like 3 or 4 courses out of 7 you're doing... .imagine having missing score, error in compiling results, having a lazy course adviser, having sadistic lecturers...how will your hardwork be rewarded??

In as much as what you said is true but the crucible which most first class, 2.1 and even 2.2 graduates of public schools are made to pass makes private schools look like our secondary school.

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OP I'll have you know that going to school is a 2 way project. You go to school and the school go through you. You guys in private uni only go to school. There are many things being in tertiary institution entail, I see no reason why a student will be doctored and monitored and be told what to do, and what not to do. It negates the very thought of freedom.

magicminister:
nice write up!

So you went to Covenant University? No wonder.

joseph1832:
So you went to Covenant University? No wonder.

Nope but if my children do not school in u.s, they will school in the best of the best private schools in Nigeria.
I just completed my previous post!

magicminister:


Nope but if my children do not school in u.s, they will school in the best of the best private schools in Nigeria.
I just completed my previous post!

I'll rather have my kids school in the U.S or Europe than here. As long as the university is in Nigeria, *cough...

Why compromise standard.