Admissions

Getting the Right Information Concerning UNIBEN 2012/2013 Admission

For Undergraduates (Bachelors/UTME Admissions)

Many people come to Uniben and naively ask every Tom, Dick and Harry about their challenges with Admission problems. We find it very funny to see parents roaming around Uniben directed to several wrong offices in their quest to find out the status of their wards concerning the 2012/2013 Admission.

Please note that it is only the University Admission Board (UAB) that has the authentic information concerning the admission of students into undergraduate or UTME programmes.

The Office of the UAB Chairman is located at the Main Auditorium of the University of Benin which is facing the entrance to the University. The UAB Office is at the basement to left besides the entrance to the Main Auditorium. In case you are in doubt, there is a Security post inside the Main Auditorium, simply ask the personnel, they will direct you to the UAB Office.

For Postgraduates (PGD, Masters and Ph.D. Admissions)

For postgraduate admissions or issues, the best place for inquiry is to go to the School of Postgraduate Studies facing the Students Affairs Division behind the Sports Complex of the main campus of the University.

It is highly advisable to go and check from the PG co-ordinator for each department before you apply to any postgraduate course irrespective of what is on the internet.

Firstly, a department may not be admitting students for a particular session into a particular programme. This maybe due to the fact that the department has a backlog of postgraduate students that have not graduated which maybe due to several reasons known to the department. For instance, the Department of Microbiology did not admit students into their postgraduate programmes for the 2011/2012 academic session due to a backlog of students. Imagine if you decide to go to the bank or use online platform to pay the processing fee for a particular programme before you find out the department is not admitting. Your money would have gone down the drain.

Secondly, a department may change the arrangement of a particular programme for a particular year. This is done due to the numbers of applications received and the numbers of staffs on ground (excluding those on leave, sabbaticals, studies, etc). A department may send a circular to the Postgraduate School for change or adjustment of a particular programme but that adjustment may not be reflected in the website or may not be immediately effected by the PG School but it has already been effective in the respective faculty or department. For instance, a department may change a part-time PG programme to a full-time or vice versa. You have to be sure before you apply, because if you are interested in part-time and the programme has been converted to full-time you may have a problem trying to cope with you new realities.

It won’t cost you anything to get the appropriate information from the right sources.

Remember, knowledge is power.

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