UI to admit students who score below 200

Students who achieved less than 200 marks in the recently completed Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination have been offered admission to the University of Ibadan.

At a news conference conducted on Tuesday at the university in Ibadan, Prof. Emmanuel Omobowale, the director of the UI Distance Learning Centre, said this.

Omobowale stated that students with poor UTME scores and those who did not take the UTME in the previous year could be admitted to the university through its Open Distance e-Learning program, providing them with the opportunity to achieve the same degrees as other students.

"Prospective students would need to register with JAMB and take an examination for the school, after which they would be issued the same certificates as the university and mobilized for the National Youth Service Corps like their colleagues who were admitted for the regular programmes of the university," the director stated.

The UIODeL, he said, was created to give possibilities to the thousands of qualified students who are denied entry to universities each year because of a lack of space, and the only criteria they had to meet was to pass relevant O'Level topics.

Omobowale also stressed that “the university could admit 100,000 students and even more through the programme, which he said would not be affected by frequent strikes by the Academic Staff Union of Universities.”

Under the direction of UI Vice Chancellor Prof. Kayode Adebowale, he claimed that the special window of admission into UI, which he called an innovative method of raising the number of students who get admission, will solve the issue of low carrying capacity universities.

He did, however, point out that the entrance standards are the same as those for the traditional form and are stated on the university website.

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