The quota system of admission into the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria is real, and this is simply because ABU is one of the federal universities in Nigeria, located in Kaduna State in the city of Zaria.
If you want to gain admission into the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, you need to understand how the admission quota is being calculated so that you can prepare yourself very well.
In line with the information gotten from the official JAMB website as at the time of publishing this post, the admission quota for the Ahmadu Bello University is divided into three.
Without much ado, in this post, you will see how the admission quota for ABU is calculated and what you should be preparing for in your admission exercise.
ABU admission quota analysis
NOTE: The quota as seen on the JAMB official website are as follows:
- 45% by merit
- 35% by catchment area
- 20% by educationally less developed states (ELDS)
See The Analysis Below.
Assuming twenty five thousand candidates (25,000) choose ABU in UTME, and fifteen thousand (15,000) candidates score above school’s UTME cut off marks, then ABU will conduct post UTME screening for the 15,000 candidates.
For instance, if ABU pegs her post UTME cut off mark at 50, and only has the capacity to admit 6000 candidates.
If 8000 candidates pass the post UTME out of the 15,000 candidates, then the quota will be calculated as follows.
Quota by Merit: ABU’s admission by merit is awarded to candidates with the highest performance in UTME and the school’s post UTME screening (if any) plus any other requirements specified by the school’s board.
So, from the figures above, the merit quota will be:
45 x 6000 / 100
= 2,700 candidates.
These 2,700 will be admitted strictly based on merit.
Quota by catchment area (Indigene): Admission by catchment area is strictly for the indigene of Kaduna state and it makes up 35% of the total number of candidates to be admitted.
Let’s do the calculation.
35 x 6000 / 100
= 2,100
= 2,100 candidates will be considered for admission based on catchment area.
Quota by state category (Educationally less developed state). This quota is reserved to candidates from some selected states in Nigeria, and it makes up 20% of the total candidates to be admitted.
20 x 6000 / 100
= 1,200
1,200 candidates will be considered for admission based on ELDS (Educationally Less Developed States).
States that fall under the “educationally less developed states”.
Twenty-three (23) states of the federation have been identified as Educationally Less Developed States (ELDS). These states are Adamawa, Bauchi, Bayelsa, Benue, Borno, Cross River, Ebonyi, Gombe, Jigawa, Kaduna, Kano, Kastina, Kebbi, Kogi, Kwara, Nasarawa, Niger, Plateau, Rivers, Sokoto, Taraba, Yobe and Zamfara.
Conclusion.
The analysis above is to help you understand how the quotas are shared. The figures are only formulated so that you can understand the calculation. If you observe something different from this analysis, kindly share it with us in the forum by clicking here.
