jamb reveals the university that have much aspirants as first choice 2017 / 2018

Jamb recently revealed universities with much aspirants as their first choice of this year (2017)
This list includes federal, state and private universities.

The university of Ilorin Kwara state in significant Nigeria, has emerged the 2017 university of first choice  among pupil-candidates as the most castle of getting to know in the country, accompanied with the aid of seventeen (17) others from 148 formally acknowledged Universities in Nigeria drawn from the Federal,State and Private  institutions, the economic  private can authoritatively report.

In a new report acquired and carefully computed and analysed through the economic  Intelligence magazine from the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) on the preferred first university of choice in 2017, the university of Ilorin has the best packages with 104,038 pupil-candidates. The determine represents nearly about 10 percent of the 1,212,818 general applicants searching for admissions into the forty Federal Universities in Nigeria. The Unilorin additionally led final yr with 103,238 pupil-applicants.

the use of the JAMB’s file of most desired universities within the country ., the monetary confidential amassed that candidates searching for  admission into universities considered academic stability, reputation, affordability, to be had centers and fine of teachers as part of their test-list before making alternatives in their applications. Of the forty (40) federal Universities inside the usa, UNILORIN is primary accompanied through Ahmadu Bello university (ABU) Zaria in Kaduna North-West Nigeria with student-candidates of 89,688.


University of Benin, Edo State in South-South Nigeria is third in the ranking with 85,486 applicants; University of Nigeria Nsukka, Enugu in South-East is the fourth with 79,073 applicants, University of Lagos (UNILAG) in South-west Nigeria is the fifth with 78,899 while Bayero University Kano (BUK) in the North-West Nigeria comes sixth with 68,241 students applicants.
Meanwhile, among the federal universities in the country, namely: Federal University Dutsima Katsina in North-West, Federal University Gashua Yobe in North-East and National Open University (NOUN) are ranked as 38th, 39th and 40th positions and having student-applicants of 3807; 1897 and 110 respectively.
State Universities: Of the current 41 official State Universities, Lagos State University (LASU), South-West Nigeria is number one with 36,119 applicants; followed by Kaduna State University North-West with 28,914 applicants; Delta State University Abraka, South-South is third with 28,672 student applicants, Nasarawa State University, North-Central is fourth with 29,142 applicants; Benue State University Makurdi in North-Central and Adekunle Ajasin University Ondo in South-West came fifth and sixth with 27, 611 and 27,579 student-applicants respectively.
In the lower ladders in the ranking of State Universities, the institutions with lower patronage of admission seekers are Ondo State University of Science and Technology, Okitipupa in South-West, Edo University, Iyamho in South-South and Eastern Palm University, Ogboko in Imo State in the South-East are ranked 39th, 40th and 41st and have student-applicants of 399; 165 and 12 respectively. Private Universities: As for private Universities in the country numbering 67, the four leading institutions are all from the South-Western States of Nigeria.
The number one position is grabbed by Covenant University, Canaan Land, Ota with 2,438 applicants, followed by Babcock University, Ilishan-Remo, Ogun State 1,599, Afe Babalola University, Ado-Ekiti, Ekiti State 1,455 and Bowen University, Iwo, Osun State with 485 students applicants. The fifth and sixth positions go to Abuja based Nigerian Turkish Nile University with 478 and Baze University with 476 student applicants.
The Economic Confidential discovered that out of the 67 private Universities in Nigeria, these ones occupy the lower rung in the ladder with 5 applicants each: Chrisland University, Owode Ogun State South-West; Koladaisi University Ibadan, Oyo South-West and Legacy University Okija, Anambra South-East. The least patronage by University seekers in the last position of 67th is Kwararafa University, Wukari, Taraba State with just 4 applicants