Admission criteria and graduate quality in Nigeria

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The reason for Nigeria's graduate unemployment rate is that the quality of education offered to graduates in Nigerian universities is questionable and insufficient to fulfill the expectations of contemporary employment. This study investigated the composite contribution of the four admission criteria, as well as the relative contribution of catchment area, merit, quota, and educationally less developed state criteria to the quality of Nigerian graduates. The study adopted a correlational approach with a population of all undergraduates across the public universities in Nigeria. An instrument titled ‘Admission Criteria and Graduate Quality Questionnaire’ was used to elicit response from the respondents using a stratified purposeful and simple random technique to select two universities and 800 participants each from the 400 level students at Zaria and Ile-Ife, Nigeria. The universities are among the first-generation universities located in the northern and southern parts of the country. The study found a significant composite contribution of the four government admission criteria to graduate quality. In addition, merit, quota and, catchment criteria have relatively significant contributions with merit having the biggest contribution whereas the lowest and least relative significant contribution was made by Education Less Disadvantage States. The study excluded other public universities outside the first-generation ones, as well as private universities within a defined time frame and geographic context. Future research could incorporate empirical investigations on the variables of the study in universities outside the first-generation and private institutions.

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