UTME Begins April 11

Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME, begins April eleventh, no fewer than one point-ninety-nine million candidates will be jostling for the available seven hundred and fifty thousand
carrying capacity in Nigerian Tertiary Institutions.

What this portends is that at the end of the admission exercise, only seven hundred and fifty thousand would be admitted leaving one point two hundred and forty million candidates to repeat the recurring decimal next year.

Capacity of institutions refers to the maximum number of students that an institution can absorb and sustain quality education available based on human and material resources.

Stakeholders are calling for upgrade of the tertiary carrying capacity in both federal and state universities to alleviate their suffering.

Founded in 1978, JAMB has never recorded massive candidates’ applications like this year.

The increment in the number of people who registered for UTME, revealed that whereas the national population among the youth grows yearly, the corresponding growth in the carrying capacity or establishment of more institutions of higher learning remains static.

Also, the increase may not be unconnected with the spillover of the over one million candidates who failed to secure admission in 2018.

While some stakeholders believe that the approval of private universities in Nigeria has further worsen the academic problems, many are in the opinion that more private universities approvals have enhanced more admission spaces for the nation’s populated youth.