Nigeria's higher education system

Report as at 2021

consists of a university sector and a non-university sector comprising polytechnics, monotechnics, and colleges of education. NUC lists 43 federal universities, 48 state universities and 79 private universities as accredited degree-granting institutions on its website.12 The largest part of students are enrolled with federal universities (68 per cent) and state universities (27 per cent), while private universities accounts only for 5 per cent of total higher education student population

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