Alexbond:
I doubt this, I'm of the opinion that with the current state of Nigerian affairs, Public University funding might continue to deteriorate leading to more decay in public universities infrastructure there by leading to more patronage of private universities. Private universities will be the pride of Nigeria higher education in decades to come. That's my take!

oga70563:
OP you need to be enlightened. Your argument is absolutely wrong. Private University are better funded and checkmated than our public Universities coupled with their serene learning environment.

Private Universities nowadays are better off. Do the maths yourself and don't type this rubbish again

tommyken:
FTC..........you are a bit right,only the best among them will survive before the next decade.its just a case of reputation.
That's the problem with public opinion,they check the superficial first before considering the true standard of a thing.
I school in federal university of Agriculture,makurdi which has a high academic standard with serious lecturers but my friends in unilag, uniport, uniben and unn thinks their school is the best but I just laught at their ignorance.
People judge by appearance and reputation.

HigherEd:


Do you know that the 4icu and unirank rankings are based on web popularity. However most Nigerians think it is based on quality. So how does an Elizade uni with 500 applicant clicking her website compete with Unilorin with over 100,000 applicants clicking her website? Do u know that all NUC rankings in the past 10 years were all false? Do you know that webometrics is heavily biased against small university e.g uni of Ibadan with 190 faculties produces 1000 research papers covenant with 32 faculties produce 500. Webometrics would rate UI above covenant.


I'm so sorry I didn't capture this Abuja issue. The likes of Baze and Nile would survive very well because they are focused on Luxury based education. The super wealthy would generally go there. As per Covenant, Babcock, Abuad, PAU, AUN, BAZE and Nile they are exempted from this write up. I am really talking(warning) about the likes of Novena, western delta uni, Samuel adegboyega uni, Edwin Clarke uni, pamo, evangel, leadcity, bellstech, tansian, Madonna, coal city uni, ritmon ikot uni, easternpalm, Monash, adetiba, spiritian, crown hill etc




Madonna, Igbinedion's enrollment and popularity has reduced drastically over the years. What they initially enjoyed was pioneer status but they failed to keep up and might be completely lost in the next few years.

Proudlyngwa:


Government should hands off tertiary education.

They can subsidise education, regulate it, licence it,, give grants, loans research funding and whatsoever, but if Nigeria wants to move forward, hands off babysitting universities and level the playing field.

CowrieKing:

Any nation that implement this idea will have cutters of wood and fetchers of water as it's citizens.
Education anywhere in the world is subsidized and remains one major leveler between the rich and the poor.
If the poor is made to pay it's actual value , they will never arise out of their poverty and the nation will be plagued with backwardness.

ThisisCowrieking

BethelD1:
https://www.nairaland.com/jman06
You are very wrong bro!
Public universities in Nigeria are really waking up. Come to Uniben and see how new infrastructures are springing up on daily basis. It'll only continue to get better!

I would rather send my children to the US, Canada or UK for their university education than waste money in a Nigerian private university'



Sending your child to a University abroad(Undergraduate) should be exclusively reserved for children/wards of very very rich nigerians .
A middle class man sending his 18 year old to a forieng university where the parents have no access to him /her for sometimes 2-4 years is psychologically challenging for these kids .

These kids are still growing and they need ongoing support and care , there is really no significant advantage in academic terms over the good private universities in Nigeria .

The mid class Nigerian who sends his kid to a naija private university has definitely improved the child's chances in life and created a very good platform for the child to compete very well with even the richest kid of the land .

A middle class kids schooling abroad is quite vulnerable , they tend to struggle to pay school fees , cant get student loans, might have to work odd jobs /illegal jobs . Many times they behave like kids attending a bad government university in naija . Most times are never visited by their naija parents due to the expenses , infact some of the parents expect the kids to send some money home to help with other siblings!
The very rich guys in foreing unis , they dont need to work and their fees are paid upfront . They are visited by their parents -very significant psychological boost .

The Private unis in naija is a good competition for the poorly run federal/state unis . They are also a very good platform for serious minded mid class families to improve the future of their children .

The fact is that the graduates of these schools are now the preferred workers in many off the top firms in Nigeria and west african sub region .

Personally i thinks its is worth investing 700k yearly on a child's education for 3 years , who is most likely to get a good jobs straight away than pretending that spending 400k for a 4 year course in another university where children are psychologically damaged and educationally made substandard is worth it .

If we stop spending 100k every 3-4 months on unnecessary social functions and divert such funds to good education we will not be arguing about the obvious .

Lastly i think the very top end private universities will survive , definitely the ones jumping into the bandwagon are mostly going to dissapear with time .
Private unis are a good addition to our existing tertiary education system to compete and raise the bar higher and eventually the state institutions will catch up . The long term view is that education will eventually have to be paid for by loans and grant like the other countries .

BethelD1:
https://www.nairaland.com/jman06
You are very wrong bro!
Public universities in Nigeria are really waking up. Come to Uniben and see how new infrastructures are springing up on daily basis. It'll only continue to get better!

I would rather send my children to the US, Canada or UK for their university education than waste money in a Nigerian private university'



Sending your child to a University abroad(Undergraduate) should be exclusively reserved for children/wards of very very rich nigerians .
A middle class man sending his 18 year old to a forieng university where the parents have no access to him /her for sometimes 2-4 years is psychologically challenging for these kids .

These kids are still growing and they need ongoing support and care , there is really no significant advantage in academic terms over the good private universities in Nigeria .

The mid class Nigerian who sends his kid to a naija private university has definitely improved the child's chances in life and created a very good platform for the child to compete very well with even the richest kid of the land .

A middle class kids schooling abroad is quite vulnerable , they tend to struggle to pay school fees , cant get student loans, might have to work odd jobs /illegal jobs . Many times they behave like kids attending a bad government university in naija . Most times are never visited by their naija parents due to the expenses , infact some of the parents expect the kids to send some money home to help with other siblings!
The very rich guys in foreing unis , they dont need to work and their fees are paid upfront . They are visited by their parents -very significant psychological boost .

The Private unis in naija is a good competition for the poorly run federal/state unis . They are also a very good platform for serious minded mid class families to improve the future of their children .

The fact is that the graduates of these schools are now the preferred workers in many off the top firms in Nigeria and west african sub region .

Personally i thinks its is worth investing 700k yearly on a child's education for 3 years , who is most likely to get a good jobs straight away than pretending that spending 400k for a 4 year course in another university where children are psychologically damaged and educationally made substandard is worth it .

If we stop spending 100k every 3-4 months on unnecessary social functions and divert such funds to good education we will not be arguing about the obvious .

Lastly i think the very top end private universities will survive , definitely the ones jumping into the bandwagon are mostly going to dissapear with time .
Private unis are a good addition to our existing tertiary education system to compete and raise the bar higher and eventually the state institutions will catch up . The long term view is that education will eventually have to be paid for by loans and grant like the other countries .

BethelD1:
https://www.nairaland.com/jman06
You are very wrong bro!
Public universities in Nigeria are really waking up. Come to Uniben and see how new infrastructures are springing up on daily basis. It'll only continue to get better!

I would rather send my children to the US, Canada or UK for their university education than waste money in a Nigerian private university'



Sending your child to a University abroad(Undergraduate) should be exclusively reserved for children/wards of very very rich nigerians .
A middle class man sending his 18 year old to a forieng university where the parents have no access to him /her for sometimes 2-4 years is psychologically challenging for these kids .

These kids are still growing and they need ongoing support and care , there is really no significant advantage in academic terms over the good private universities in Nigeria .

The mid class Nigerian who sends his kid to a naija private university has definitely improved the child's chances in life and created a very good platform for the child to compete very well with even the richest kid of the land .

A middle class kids schooling abroad is quite vulnerable , they tend to struggle to pay school fees , cant get student loans, might have to work odd jobs /illegal jobs . Many times they behave like kids attending a bad government university in naija . Most times are never visited by their naija parents due to the expenses , infact some of the parents expect the kids to send some money home to help with other siblings!
The very rich guys in foreing unis , they dont need to work and their fees are paid upfront . They are visited by their parents -very significant psychological boost .

The Private unis in naija is a good competition for the poorly run federal/state unis . They are also a very good platform for serious minded mid class families to improve the future of their children .

The fact is that the graduates of these schools are now the preferred workers in many off the top firms in Nigeria and west african sub region .

Personally i thinks its is worth investing 700k yearly on a child's education for 3 years , who is most likely to get a good jobs straight away than pretending that spending 400k for a 4 year course in another university where children are psychologically damaged and educationally made substandard is worth it .

If we stop spending 100k every 3-4 months on unnecessary social functions and divert such funds to good education we will not be arguing about the obvious .

Lastly i think the very top end private universities will survive , definitely the ones jumping into the bandwagon are mostly going to dissapear with time .
Private unis are a good addition to our existing tertiary education system to compete and raise the bar higher and eventually the state institutions will catch up . The long term view is that education will eventually have to be paid for by loans and grant like the other countries .

tommyken:
FTC..........you are a bit right,only the best among them will survive before the next decade.its just a case of reputation.
That's the problem with public opinion,they check the superficial first before considering the true standard of a thing.
I school in federal university of Agriculture,makurdi which has a high academic standard with serious lecturers but my friends in unilag, uniport, uniben and unn thinks their school is the best but I just laught at their ignorance.
People judge by appearance and reputation.

RandyX:
All the students from wealthy homes are abroad.

RandyX:
All the students from wealthy homes are abroad.

HigherEd:


Do you know that the 4icu and unirank rankings are based on web popularity. However most Nigerians think it is based on quality. So how does an Elizade uni with 500 applicant clicking her website compete with Unilorin with over 100,000 applicants clicking her website? Do u know that all NUC rankings in the past 10 years were all false? Do you know that webometrics is heavily biased against small university e.g uni of Ibadan with 190 faculties produces 1000 research papers covenant with 32 faculties produce 500. Webometrics would rate UI above covenant.


I'm so sorry I didn't capture this Abuja issue. The likes of Baze and Nile would survive very well because they are focused on Luxury based education. The super wealthy would generally go there. As per Covenant, Babcock, Abuad, PAU, AUN, BAZE and Nile they are exempted from this write up. I am really talking(warning) about the likes of Novena, western delta uni, Samuel adegboyega uni, Edwin Clarke uni, pamo, evangel, leadcity, bellstech, tansian, Madonna, coal city uni, ritmon ikot uni, easternpalm, Monash, adetiba, spiritian, crown hill etc




Madonna, Igbinedion's enrollment and popularity has reduced drastically over the years. What they initially enjoyed was pioneer status but they failed to keep up and might be completely lost in the next few years.

DonFreshmoney:


Oga some of the private school on ur list will still perform for decades, the likes of Madonna, Bellstech and igbinedion are in the status of Apti, CU, RU, Baze, ABUAD, Novena, BU. Those schools are here to stay

tommyken:
FTC..........you are a bit right,only the best among them will survive before the next decade.its just a case of reputation.
That's the problem with public opinion,they check the superficial first before considering the true standard of a thing.
I school in federal university of Agriculture,makurdi which has a high academic standard with serious lecturers but my friends in unilag, uniport, uniben and unn thinks their school is the best but I just laught at their ignorance.
People judge by appearance and reputation.

writerights:


I think you should do a lot of us the favour of writing the names and not acronyms of these schools. Some of us don't just know what they mean.

myboy2111:


It has always been free tuition .

myboy2111:


It has always been free tuition .

tommyken:
FTC..........you are a bit right,only the best among them will survive before the next decade.its just a case of reputation.
That's the problem with public opinion,they check the superficial first before considering the true standard of a thing.
I school in federal university of Agriculture,makurdi which has a high academic standard with serious lecturers but my friends in unilag, uniport, uniben and unn thinks their school is the best but I just laught at their ignorance.
People judge by appearance and reputation.

writerights:


University of Ibadan offers about 90 courses, how on earth would be it have 190 faculties? This exergeration is overboard.

HigherEd:

You make so much sense sir.