This is to inform the public that Ebonyi State University(EBSU) proposed admission guidelines for 2015/2016 admissions has been
prepared and sent to the University Vice Chancellors’s office for
approval. Members of the general public as well as prospective students
are hereby informed.
Below are the guidelines as released on the school official website:
For the 2015/2016 admission exercise the following general guidelines have been approved and shall apply accordingly:
(a) The Joint Admissions and Matriculations Board (JAMB) has
approved that the 2015/2016 admission calendar shall commence from
Monday 17th August, 2015 and end by Friday, 4
th September, 2015.
(b) Credit passes in O/L Mathematics and English shall continue
to form part of the mandatory general entry requirements for the
2015/2016 admission/registration into all EBSU regular undergraduate
programmes.
(c) Admission/Registration of candidates into undergraduate
programmes of Faculty of Law and Medicine/Anatomy shall continue to be
based on possession of all relevant O/L entry requirements at
One sitting.
(d) There shall be no consideration for admission/registration of
all candidates (successful Pre-Degree graduands inclusive) into
undergraduate programmes
without evidence of:
(i) minimum UTME (JAMB) result/score of 180 and
(ii) either EBSU post UTME minimum score of 100 marks or PDS with a minimum score of 180.
(e) The NUC approved admission carrying capacity for EBSU is 5,117.
(f) There shall be no recommendation/admission of candidates into undergraduate programmes on
Awaiting Result
basis. For avoidance of doubt, no candidate who fails to present ready
qualifying statement of result or certificate as evidence of fulfilment
of prescribed entry requirements for admission through UTME or D/E shall
be recommended/selected, admitted or registered provisionally.
(g) In addition to other stipulated criteria for supplementary
admission, no successful Pre-Degree graduate without a minimum UTME
score of 180 shall be considered for admission.
(h) The selection for admission in 2015/2016 session would be
done in such a way that the average of the candidates UTME score with
either the Post UTME or Pre-Degree score, whichever is higher, would be
used.
(i) No candidate with an average score of less than each of the
faculty cut-off scores as in three (3) below shall be considered for
admission.
(j) No Pre-Degree graduate/other candidates who did not choose
EBSU shall be considered for admission during the merit admissions.
(k) Candidates who didn’t choose EBSU but passed UTME at
180 and above may be considered for EBSU supplementary Post UTME if the need arises and JAMB permits.
(l) Direct Entry admissions shall continue to take 10% of EBSU total quota.
(m) Direct entry admission seekers whose O’level results are not screened online may not be considered for admission.
(n) A minimum of OND/OD upper credit shall continue to form basic criteria for Direct entry admission into EBSU programmes.
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