Akwa Ibom State University, Ikot Akpaden, Nigeria

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About Akwa Ibom State University, Ikot Akpaden

Akwa Ibom State University (AKSU) is a state-owned, conventional, multi-campus university in Akwa Ibom State, south-eastern Nigeria. Its Main Campus is at Ikot Akpaden in Mkpat Enin Local Government Area, beside the junction of the Ikot Akpaden-Eastern Obolo road and the Eket-Ikot Abasi highway on the East-West Highway; its second campus is at Obio Akpa in Oruk Anam Local Government Area, along the Abak-Ikot Okoro road. The university's stated philosophy is to produce graduates who are employable and able to create employment from the natural resources of the state.

Academic work is organised in faculties split across the two campuses. The Main Campus hosts the Faculties of Engineering, Physical Sciences, Education and Biological Sciences. The Obio Akpa Campus hosts the Faculties of Arts, Agriculture, Social Sciences and Management Sciences. Programmes include Accounting, Business Administration, Marketing and Public Administration (Management Sciences); Mass Communication, Economics, Political Science and Sociology and Anthropology (Social Sciences); English, Philosophy, Religious and Cultural Studies, History and International Studies and Performing Arts (Arts); Chemistry, Computer Science, Geology, Mathematics, Physics and Statistics (Physical Sciences); and Botany, Microbiology, Genetics and Biotechnology, Zoology, Marine Biology and Biochemistry (Biological Sciences). Agriculture covers Agricultural Economics and Extension, Animal Science, Crop Science, Soil Science and Fisheries and Aquaculture, and Education offers science-education degrees in Biology, Chemistry, Integrated Science, Physics and Mathematics.

A Faculty of Health Sciences was approved by the National Universities Commission by letter of 23 December 2025, allowing full-time bachelor's degrees from the 2025/2026 session in Nursing Science, Public Health, Community Health Science, Health Information Management, Science Laboratory Technology, Medical Laboratory Science and Environmental Health Science. The School of Postgraduate Studies runs Postgraduate Diploma, master's and PhD programmes, and the university also operates a Business School, centres for continuing education and entrepreneurship, and a JUPEB programme.

The first phase of the Main Campus has academic blocks, laboratories, engineering workshops, a central cafeteria for 500 students, an auditorium of similar capacity, a library with e-book sections, male and female hostels, a medical centre and a sports arena. The Obio Akpa Campus occupies an older site that began in the 1950s as a colonial agricultural experimental station and has demonstration farms for oil palm, rubber, fisheries and small and large ruminants; it is about 15 minutes' drive from Uyo.

Governance follows the usual Nigerian pattern of a Governing Council, a Senate (the highest academic body) and a Congregation, with administrative departments including the Registry, Bursary, Library, Works, Health Services and Students' Affairs Division.

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Undergraduate admission through UTME

Credit passes in five subjects including English Language at SSCE, GCE O'Level or an equivalent examination.
A UTME score of at least 140 (subject to change); for the 2025/2026 session candidates who chose AKSU as first choice and scored 150 and above were eligible to apply.
A Post-UTME screening score of not less than 180 (subject to change). AKSU must be the candidate's first choice to sit the Post-UTME.
A screening score below 140 rules a candidate out of every programme, whatever the UTME score. Final selection uses the average of the UTME and Post-UTME scores; cut-offs vary by programme.

Direct Entry

Five O'Level credits including English Language, plus A-Levels, OND or NCE in a relevant subject area and an acceptable score in the Direct Entry screening exercise. Selection combines the candidate's certificates and screening score.

Subject requirements by faculty

Agriculture: five credits including English Language, Mathematics, Chemistry and Biology or Agricultural Science, with Physics (a pass in some departments) or Geography/Economics depending on the department.
Arts: five credits at not more than two sittings; English requires English Language and Literature in English, Philosophy requires English Language and Mathematics, Religious and Cultural Studies requires Christian Religious Knowledge, History and International Studies requires Geography and History or Government, Performing Arts requires Literature in English.
Biological Sciences: five credits in English Language, Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry and Biology.
Education (science-education programmes): five credits at not more than two sittings including English Language and Mathematics plus the relevant science subjects.
Management Sciences: five credits including English Language, Mathematics and Economics (Accounting accepts Economics or Accounting).
Social Sciences: five credits including English Language and Mathematics, with Literature in English for Mass Communication, Economics for Economics, and Government or History for Political Science and Sociology and Anthropology.

Health Sciences (2025/2026)

Only UTME candidates who chose AKSU first and scored at least 290 are eligible for Nursing Science; the other Health Sciences programmes require at least 265. Screening registration for 2025/2026 cost N2,000 (excluding bank charges) and needed the UTME result slip, birth certificate and certificate of origin, completed online.

Postgraduate

Applicants must meet university matriculation requirements and the departmental requirements. Typical routes are PGD for degree or HND holders; master's for a bachelor's degree with a minimum CGPA of 3.00 (or HND upper credit plus PGD at distinction) in a relevant field; PhD for a master's degree with a minimum CGPA of 3.50 on a 5-point scale. The 2026/2027 application form costs N30,000 (excluding charges), submitted online at aksu.edu.ng/pg with credentials and payment receipt by 30 October 2026. Tuition from the 2024/2025 session is N150,000 (PGD), N200,000 (academic master's) and N250,000 (PhD), payable 50% per semester, with an N30,000 non-refundable acceptance fee after admission.

Undergraduate fees

Total undergraduate fees are N108,000 for Akwa Ibom indigenes and N138,000 for non-indigenes, excluding bank charges.

Main Campus, Ikot Akpaden, Mkpat Enin LGA: Faculties of Engineering, Physical Sciences, Education and Biological Sciences. The campus extends about 4,600 hectares from the East-West Highway to the Atlantic shoreline, with about 180 hectares of tableland; the first phase covers about 7 hectares with academic blocks, laboratories, engineering workshops, a 500-seat cafeteria and auditorium, male and female hostels, a medical centre, a sports arena, about 2 km of tarred roads, standby generators and a water works with boreholes. The Main Campus Library covers about 2,034 square metres.
Obio Akpa Campus, Oruk Anam LGA (near Abak): Faculties of Arts, Agriculture, Social Sciences and Management Sciences, with academic and administrative blocks, laboratories and demonstration farms for oil palm, rubber, fisheries and ruminants. Its library has about 233 square metres and was formerly the library of the College of Agriculture.

The Library is a multi-campus system with Administrative, Resource Development, Processing, Readers' Services, Institutional Repository, Reference, Repographic and E-library units; faculties also have their own resource centres.

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