{"id":13500,"date":"2025-08-26T10:27:47","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T10:27:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/edumarkng.com\/news\/ui-14000-candidates-jostle-for-2025-2026-admission\/"},"modified":"2025-08-26T10:27:47","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T10:27:47","slug":"ui-14000-candidates-jostle-for-2025-2026-admission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/edumarkng.com\/news\/ui-14000-candidates-jostle-for-2025-2026-admission\/","title":{"rendered":"UI: 14,000 candidates jostle for 2025\/ 2026 admission"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dailypost.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/University-of-Ibadanui.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"UI: 14,000 candidates jostle for 2025\/ 2026 admission\" title=\"UI: 14,000 candidates jostle for 2025\/ 2026 admission\" \/><\/div><p>UI: 14,000 candidates jostle for 2025\/ 2026 admission, <!-- no image -->,  <\/p>\n<p>No fewer than fourteen thousand candidates have applied to study various undergraduate courses at the University of Ibadan, DAILY POST reports.<\/p>\n<p>The fourteen thousand candidates are seeking admission to be enrolled for various degree programmes in the 2025\/2026 academic session.<\/p>\n<p>These revelations were revealed during the commencement of Post-Universal Tertiary Matriculation Examination in the institution.<\/p>\n<p>Our correspondent however gathered that the university can only admit less than five thousand candidates.<\/p>\n<p>DAILY POST reports that the university on Monday commenced the Post-UTME exercise.<\/p>\n<p>The Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Administration of the university, Professor Peter Olapegba, led other principal officers of the institution to monitor the exercise.<\/p>\n<p>It was also learnt that medical officers from the university\u2019s clinic were also on ground to provide the necessary support to the personnel and the candidates.<\/p>\n<p>Our correspondent reports that the university admitted about <a href=\"https:\/\/dailypost.ng\/2025\/04\/17\/university-of-ibadan-clears-4215-for-2024-2025-session\/\">four thousand two hundred and fifteen students<\/a> in the last admission exercise.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dailypost.ng\/2025\/08\/26\/ui-14000-candidates-jostle-for-2025-2026-admission\/\">UI: 14,000 candidates jostle for 2025\/ 2026 admission<\/a><\/p>\n<p>, Education &#8211; Daily Post Nigeria, August 26, 2025, 10:27 am<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UI: 14,000 candidates jostle for 2025\/ 2026 admission, , No fewer than fourteen thousand candidates have applied to study various undergraduate courses at the University of Ibadan, DAILY POST reports. 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