Check out the most expensive University in Nigeria

               

The new Edo State University, Iyamo, happens to be the most expensive public university in Nigeria now.

The new Edo University 

The school which is founded by the governor of the state, Adams Oshiomhole began its first academic session on April 11, 2016, had students who were offered admission after writing the school last Post UTME of the school, were shocked when the school fees were released. A student has to cough out N710,000 to study accounting and Computer Science in the newly established institution. This does not include acceptance fee of N50,000, feeding and buying of books.

The University fees which is not a private owned institution, with the approval of the Edo state House of Assembly, making it the second state university owned by Edo state after the Ambrose Ali University, Ekpoma fee is four times higher than the fee being paid in Osun State University, one of the former most extensive public schools in Nigeria.

Osun State University charges between N130,000 and N160,000, University of Ibadan fee is N14,000 while at the University of Lagos, it is N15,000, among others.

The new University's fee still doubles N350,000 fees of Lagos State University When former Governor of Lagos state, Babatunde Fashola increased it but it was later reversed.

Oshiomhole’s Edo University is also costly compare to many private schools in Nigeria. Such as Crawford University (N400,000-N600,000), Redeemers University (N500,000-N650,000), Lead City University (N550,500), Caleb University (N505,000), Ajayi Crowder University (N500,000), Benson Idahosa (N500,000), Joseph Ayo Babalola University (N436,000), Covenant University (N432,000), Achievers University, Owo (N420, 000), Novena University (N400,000), Adeleke University, Ede (N350,000), Rhema University (N325,000), among others are less expensive than Edo University, which happened to be a government school.