Mouau Admission Facts You Need To Know...

Firstly we thank God for the success of the post Utme Exams. The questions that aspirants keep asking and already tired of answering is the question pertaining to the departmental cutoff mark for 2015 PUTME.

I will like to use this medium to inform you all that Michael Okpara University of Agriculture, Umudike have not officially published any stipulated mark to be the cutoff for any department.

I have read several articles which the Authors titled it to be the cutoff for the school.
You are advised to ignore such as those marks where all fabricated.

In this Article I will be addressing some questions pertaining to Mouau Admission Process.

To start with, Let's read this article, posted by the Former webmaster of Mouau, Obioma Kelechi Anyawu on April 11, 2013...

It goes thus........

" Basically, admission at MOUAU is based on a competitive quota system. What does that mean? This simply means that during the admission process, each dept/course is allocated a certain number of student slots within the total admission quota for the entire University and these slots are
competitively allocated.

So assuming the University has about 2,000 slots approved by NUC for a particular session, this number is divided between the Depts/courses.

Soil Science, Botany, Agronomy may be given less than 50 slots each, while the more competitive Agribusiness, Microbiology, Comp Eng, Comp Science, may be given about 150 slots each. And other depts/courses in order of size and competitiveness.

During the selection process, all the students who applied for each of these courses are listed according to the scores they have, in descending order. Then selection is made based on the quota allocated for that dept/course for that year.

Therefore if after sorting the names a candidates name falls as the 88th person in order of score for a particular program that was allocated 50 slots, obviously such a candidate will not be admitted.

Typically, applications received for the programs mentioned earlier ranges around these figures during Post UTME, Soil Science - less than 20, Botany - about 100, Agronomy - less than 10, while Agribusiness - about 1,300, Microbiology - almost 1,000, Comp Eng - about 900, Comp Science- over 1,000, etc.

These are typical figures. Let me add Civil Engr - about 300-400.

With the explanation above and the figures shown here, you will discover that a candidate who was not offered admission in Comp Eng, will find another candidate with the same score, being offered admission to read Civil Engr.

This is because the competition is less heated there. Equally a candidate who was not offered admission to read Biochemistry, will find out that the scores of several of those admitted to read Botany/Zoology are much lower than his/hers.

And when this happens such a candidate will start complaining and claiming that he/she was denied admission as a result of corruption and bribery, obviously not understanding the way the system works.

I can categorically tell you that the merit admissions at MOUAU are processed 100% on merit. After the merit admissions, then comes the supplementary admissions.

But many of our prospective students do not know that supplementary admission is not automatic. You need to indicate interest and apply for it.

If you don't apply for Supplementary Admission at the right time, the result is that a candidate who scored lower than you, but who indicated interest and applied through the proper channels will be admitted and you still find yourself without admission and probably complaining.

This has been a long post, I just hope there are few mistakes and that it is easy to understand, otherwise feel free to ask further questions.

Frequently Asked Questions

1. WHAT DOES SUPPLEMENTARY LIST MEANS.
I will answer this with an article;
"After the regular merit admissions lists have been announced and published, successful aspirants are expected to pay the required acceptance fee within a specified time. At the end of the period, the admissions unit, takes stock of the spaces that have not been filled or taken up by paying the required acceptance fee.

When the time is right, the University then calls for applications from candidates who have not yet been admitted and who wish to be offered admission. The announcement usually comes with guidelines on how aspirants can apply and the particular courses/ departments that are open for applications.

Sometimes the guidelines will include the average scores that may be eligible to apply for each course/department.

From experience, this admission list tends to generate the longest list and largest number of aspirants being granted admission. The time frame given to receive applications is usually a very small window of time, this makes it imperative that aspirants who may wish to apply need to put their documents together in order to reduce their reaction time to the call for supplementary admission applications.
You have all heard of it from the Horse's mouth, its best not to delay when the supplementary forms are released.
Wish you all the best.

2. WHAT ARE MY CHANCES OF GETTING ADMISSION WITH MY AVERAGE ?
The higher your average, the better your chances of getting admission.

3. WHAT LIST WILL BE PUBLISHED
Some list that would be published includes:
Merit admission list, Catchment area, Educational less development state (ELDS), Pre-degree(P.D), Direct entry(D.E) and the Supplementary admission list.

Written by - Obiora Okeke.