… Records Highest Admission List Since Inception

Although the 44^th matriculation ceremony of the Enugu State University of Science and Technology has come and gone, the echos still vibrate within as it has been revealed that no fewer than 14 000 candiates applied for admission into ESUT for the 2024/2025 academic session.

Among this number, 7174 students where granted admission while over 6 000 had their applications turned down.

The University Registrar, who disclosed this to this paper, attributed the upsurge in the number of candidates seeking for admission into ESUT to many factors.

“The numbers was very high and their was no way we were going to admit all of them. We had over 14 000 admission seekers who applied to student in ESUT. However, our carrying capacity could only contain 7174 students who we accpeted, the rest, over 6, 000 of them, were rejected.

“There are factors responsibility for this upsurge and they are not far fetched. Since this administration came on board in 2022, the mnumber of students admitted into the university have continued to increase. The major reason is the fact that ESUT is running a seamless, uninterupted calendar. If a student in law or Mass Communication gains admission today, he already knows that in the next five of four year, he will leave the school. That is guaranteed in ESUT.

“Secondly, Our school fees is the least among other State owned univerities at least in the East. I can also tell you that the commitment of our staff is also another factor. Our staff don’t joke with their work, they hold lectures as and when do and support the management to achieve its set objectives.

“Another huge factor is introduction of new programmes. The University has continued to introduce new programmes as well as creating new faculties. For instance, the former Faculty Of Applied Natural Science (FANS) has been seperated into two facukties, ESUT College of Medicine have had a new faculty while plan is uuderway to demerge Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities. In the same vein, new programmes were also added such as Medical Radiograpy, Public Health, Biometric Engineering and Human Nutrition And Dietetics.

“The transformative leadership of the Vice Chancellor has also upscalled the ranking of the university out there. He has worked hard round the clock to rebrand the university and the reward is not just the increase in number of admission seekers but also in attracting sponsoships to the uniuversity,” he said.

The 44^th Matricualtion ceremony held on Friday, Februray 21, 2025