APPLICATION OPENS FOR INTER-UNIVERSITY TRANSFER – 2025/2026 UNIVERSITY OF NIGERIA ACADEMIC SESSION AND GUIDELINES FOR CHANGE OF DEGREE PROGRAMME FOR 2025/2026 ACADEMIC SESSION
2025-2026 CHANGE OF DEGREE FORM
2025-2026–INTER-UNIVERSITY TRANSFER FORM
UNIVERSITY OF NIGERIA, NSUKKA
OFFICE OF THE REGISTRAR
GUIDELINES FOR CHANGE OF DEGREE PROGRAMME FOR 2025/2026 ACADEMIC SESSION
The University of Nigeria, Nsukka hereby invites applications from interested students for the 2025/2026 Change of Degree Programme.
GUIDELINES
- Application for Change of Degree Programme should be received at the end of each session. The processing of the application should be completed not later than one month from the beginning of the new session.
- For a student to change from one Department to another, he/she must make a minimum GPA of 1.00. Each Department will determine the minimum cut off GPA for accepting students into the Department, through Change of Degree Programme.
- The Admissions Office will confirm the students’ eligibility for the new Departments and process the applications of the students listed in the payment schedule. Candidates should therefore submit to the Admissions office, print out of the change of degree application, copy of O/Level Result and Result checker (WAEC/NECO scratch card(s)).
- Vacancies for some programmes is as shown below:
| S/No. | Faculty | Vacancy |
| 1 | Faculty of Agriculture | |
| Agribusiness | 48 | |
| Agricultural Economics | 41 | |
| Agricultural Extension | 43 | |
| Animal Science | 49 | |
| Crop Science | 24 | |
| Food Science & Technology | 28 | |
| Home Science & Management | 23 | |
| Nutrition & Dietetics | 20 | |
| Soil Science | 55 |
| 2 | Faculty of Arts | |
| Archaeology | 65 | |
| English and Literary Studies | 12 | |
| Foreign Languages | 10 | |
| Fine and Industrial Arts | 5 | |
| Linguistics, Igbo and Other Nigerian Languages | 50 | |
| Music | 10 | |
| Mass Communication | 10 | |
| 3 | Faculty of Clinical Sciences | 20 |
| 4 | Faculty of Business Administration | |
| Accountancy | 90 | |
| Banking & finance | 70 | |
| Management | 80 | |
| Marketing | 60 | |
| 5 | Faculty of Education | |
| Arts Education | 40 | |
| Continuing Education and Dev. Studies | 40 | |
| Counselling & Human Dev Studies | 20 | |
| Early Childhood and Primary Education | 10 | |
| Human Kinetics and Health Education | 50 | |
| Library and Information Science | 20 | |
| Science Education | 50 | |
| Social Science Education | 40 | |
| Special Needs Education | 35 | |
| 6 | Faculty of Engineering | |
| Civil Engineering | 7 | |
| 7 | Faculty of Health Sciences & Technology | |
| Med Lab Sc | 100 | |
| Med Rehab | 100 | |
| Med Radiog and Radiol Scs | 100 | |
| Nursing Sciences | 80 | |
| 8 | Faculty of Law | 30 |
| 9 | Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences | 15 |
| 10 | Faculty of Physical Sciences | |
| Computer Science: | 30 | |
| Geology: | 20 | |
| Mathematics: | 20 | |
| Pure/Industrial Chemistry: | 25 | |
| SLT_Chemistry | 20 | |
| SLT_Physics with electronics | 20 | |
| Statistics: | 10 | |
| Combined Physical Sciences: | 45 | |
| 11 | Faculty of Social Sciences | |
| Psychology | 7 | |
| 12 | Faculty of Veterinary Medicine | 28 |
| 13 | Faculty of Vocational Technical Education | |
| Agricultural Education | 20 | |
| Business Education | 10 | |
| Computer and Robotics Education | 10 | |
| Voc & Entrepreneurship Edu. | 10 | |
| Home Econs & Hospitality Edu. | 15 | |
| Industrial Technical Education | 25 |
- Movement of list of Applications for Change of Degree from the Admissions Office to the Faculties and back should be done in batches. Students should not be involved in the movement of the lists.
- At the end of the stipulated period, only those who have completed the process will be registered in their new Departments. There will be no carryover of the process to another session.
- No other form of payment should be made or collected for Change of Degree Programme, except that indicated in the Application procedure.
APPLICATION PROCEDURE
Eligible candidates are requested to visit the University of Nigeria website edu.ngor portal unnportal.edu.ng, log in your registration number to generate and download a unique payment invoice. Take the invoice to any Bank on the e-transact:
- With the Payment Invoice, the candidate is requested to pay N150,000.00 (One Hundred and Fifty Thousand Naira) only application processing fee. Ensure that the Invoice number is keyed in appropriately at the Bank and obtain a confirmation slip containing your Confirmation number and Invoice number.
- To complete the Change of Degree Form online, visit the University of Nigeria website or portal and log in your Registration number, the Confirmation number and Invoice number.
Note: Candidates who fail to register within the stipulated period or complete their forms online will not be processed while any extraneous payment will nullify the application.
Online registration commences on Monday November 17, 2025 and ends on Saturday December 13, 2025.
/ Sgd./
Dr. Mrs. C. N. Nnebedum, FIIA, FCAI, MAIEA, MAUA (UK)
Registrar
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UNIVERSITY OF NIGERIA, NSUKKA
OFFICE OF THE REGISTRAR
APPLICATION FOR INTER-UNIVERSITY TRANSFER – 2025/2026 ACADEMIC SESSION
- GUIDELINES
- Transfer students shall possess the minimum University of Nigeria and Departmental entry requirements prior to entry into the University from where they are seeking transfer.
- Transfer students shall make a minimum cumulative grade point average of 2.95 on a 5.00 point scale to qualify for consideration and should not have spent more than two (2) academic sessions in his or her former University.
- The number of students offered admission by transfer shall not exceed 4% of the departmental admission quota in any one year.
- Application should be accompanied by student’s transcript. University of Nigeria official(s) would be sent to the University from where transfer is being sought for verification of the transcript or on-line verification as the case may be.
- If at any stage irregularity is discovered in the papers presented by the student(s), such student(s) shall be withdrawn from the University.
- Disciplinary action shall be taken against any officer of the University found colluding with or circumventing the process of the transfer.
- A transfer student is required to possess a JAMB score which is not less than the minimum score of UNN students admitted into his department in his admission year.
- He must transfer into the same course as he studied in his university.
- Transfer student must not be admitted beyond second (2nd) year for all programmes in the University.
- A transfer student must be a current student of the University from which he seeks transfer.
- All applications for inter-University transfer for the 2025/2026 academic session should be received on or before December 13, 2025.
- All recommendations for admission by transfer from Faculty shall be submitted to the Admissions Office for collation and presentation to Senate Entrance Board for consideration.
- APPLICATION PROCEDURE
- Visit the University of Nigeria website (www.unn.edu.ng) or portal (unnportal.edu.ng), log in your Telephone Number to generate and download a unique Payment Invoice for Application Processing Fee. Pay the application fee of N300,000.00 (Three Hundred Thousand Naira) only through Remita payment platform at any Commercial Bank, including UNN Microfinance Bank. You are to generate a payment invoice which contains a Remita number; the invoice print out will enable you to make your payment at the bank.
- Visit the University of Nigeria website or portal (unn.edu.ng or unnportal.edu.ng) again and log in your Telephone and Invoice Numbers, and then complete the Inter-University Transfer Form online.
- Print the form and submit to the Registry (Admissions) along with copy of O/Level Results and Result Checker (WAEC/NECO Scratch card(s), and forward the last page of the form to your current University Registrar for completion to confirm release from your current University. The release form should be forwarded to the Registrar, University of Nigeria, Nsukka by your current Registrar. The student’s transcript should also be forwarded from the current University to the Registrar, UNN.
- Candidates should note that any form which is not completed on-line will not be processed.
Online application commences on Monday November 17, 2025 and ends on Saturday December 13, 2025.
/ Sgd./
Dr. Mrs. C. N. Nnebedum, FIIA, FCAI, MAIEA, MAUA (UK)
Registrar
