Two New Universities To Be Approved Next Week – NUC

The National Universities Commission (NUC) has said plans are being finalized to announce the establishment of two new universities in the country which will further bring the total number of institutions in the country to 272.

The commission’s acting Executive Secretary, Chris Maiyaki, said this during an interaction with journalists in Abuja on Thursday.

Maiyaki stated that the NUC would continue to approve new universities to cater for the admissions gap in the country.

He noted that while about two million candidates seek admission into universities every year, the total available quota for admission range between 500,000 and 700,000.

Maiyaki’s stance comes amidst the fight of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) and other stakeholders in the tertiary education sub-sector against the proliferation of institutions in the country by the government at the Federal and State levels.

“We have no choice but to as a matter of deliberate policy undertake the massification of universities,” Maiyaki said.

He further said that what separates the developed today from other countries is the level of investments in education.

Maiyaki added that every year, almost two million candidates seek admission into the universities but only between 500,000 and 700,000 students get admitted.