Steps to Gain Admission Into Nigerian Universities, Polytechnics, and Colleges of Education made Easy.

Admission into Universities, Polytechnics and Colleges of is a process through which students get enrolled into a tertiary Institution. There are no generally accepted procedures to do this, but there is the basic requirement that must be met before for you will be able to gain admission.

The steps to gain admission may differ from one tertiary institution to another, it may equally depend on the choice of the student concerning the Course He or She wants to study.

 
Before you think of gaining admission into any Nigerian University, you must have the minimum requirement from WAEC, NECO, NABTECH etc as the case may be.

Steps To Gain Admission Into Nigerian Higher Institution

The first step to gain admission into Nigerian Institution is to be sure your WAEC, NECO, NABTECH results meet the basic minimum requirements. After WAEC is JAMB UTME, so you passing WAEC, you have to get ready for jamb because it has been the popular pass-way to gain admission in Nigeria and it gets harder by the year.

Before now, gaining admission into a Nigeria Universities was easy; you just need to write SENIOR WAEC. Then just a few people are opportune to write the WAEC, hence few students apply for Admission making it less competitive.

Recently, quite a no of students graduate from Secondary school, giving all these students admissions is not possible, hence the JAMB UTME was introduced. A way to screen out many WAEC candidates.

Having a good Score in JAMB UTME doesn’t mean your admission is secured. The truth is that when you pass Jamb, it is an indication to the university you apply for that you are now a qualified candidate for admission into the university. This only happens if you can score up to or above the threshold or cut off mark of the course you applied for in that said University.

After Jamb what you need is to prepare for the university Post UTME or Screening. This is the last process a student must pass-through. Most Universities award admission to students that met their fixed cut off mark for Post UTME.

Post-UTME has two ways  which are; 

• Writing an aptitude test.

Screening of the student's credentials. This is just checking your WAEC and JAMB results if it meets the minimum requirement.
After writing your Post UTME or screening upload your WAEC result in the JAMB portal so that the university you choose can easily see your WAEC result if is fake or original. Many students don’t get admission sometimes even when their JAMB scores or Post UTME score might be good because their WAEC result was not uploaded.
 

• Open Admission

Also, ''Open admission'' is another opportunity that most Students use as steps to gain admission into University. Open admission is a process whereby some Universities offers admission to students who didn't choose their institution as a choice when registering for JAMB.

Year in year out, some schools will be ready to admit students who didn’t choose them in JAMB. This set of institutions only wants you to write UTME and have a certain cut off mark.

Once the student meet the required or drawn cut off mark for their post-UTMEs/admission screenings, they expect you to partake in their admission process just like those who chose them from the beginning. Provision for open Admission can be achieved by:

Not changing their choice of School – The school on requires them to their Post UTME. These set of schools won’t tell you to change your choice before you can write their post UTME/screening. They only instruct you to do that after you must have been offered admission.

Changing your choice of school  –These set of schools require the students to change their choice of school to theirs before been allowed to write the post-UTME.

Easier Steps To Gain Admission Into The University

Many students go for Professional courses than Career Courses which in the end they are been denied admission because of competition.
There are no easy ways of getting admission into Nigeria Universities. Research has been conducted and opinion of scholars sort from which the following emanated.

   1.) Apply for less competitive Courses,
   2.) Apply to Universities that are easy to gain admission,
   3.) Have two courses in mind such as Professional Courses or Career
    Courses for Supplementary Purposes.     
   4.) Always Know the Calculation of Your Universities aggregate
    Admission Points

                                                                Conclusion

Getting admission into Nigerian Universities, Polytechnics and colleges of education has become highly competitive. Students intending to securing admission should try as much possible to utilize all the necessary avenues that has been enumerated.