This article is designed to help students who wish to study Political Science and Defence Studies under the Faculty of Social & Management Sciences at the Nigeria Defence Academy.
Read both O Level lines below before you register for JAMB, because this page states the credit requirement twice and the two statements do not match. The NDA-specific remark is the stricter of the two and it is the one to plan around.
The Nigerian Defence Academy (NDA) Kaduna is one of the first of two Military Universities in Nigeria. Nigerian Army University, established in 2018 in Biu, Borno State, is the other military university that does not offer military training.
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O’Level Subject Combination
The O’level subject combination and requirements needed to study Political Science and Defence Studies are as follows:
Five (5) SSC credit passes including English Language Government or History, and at least a pass in Mathematics.
Special Consideration (Waiver) Remarks
NDA requires ‘O’ Level credit passes in English Language, Mathematics, Government, and any other two (2) of Economics, History, Geography, French, Literature in English, Christian Religious Studies / Islamic Studies, and any Nigerian Language.
Set the two lines side by side and the differences are clear. The general line asks only for a pass in Mathematics and offers Government or History as alternatives. The NDA remark asks for a credit in Mathematics and names Government specifically.
JAMB Subject Combination
In UTME, please note that the English Language is Compulsory for this course. Therefore, the three (3) other JAMB UTME subject combinations needed to study Political Science and Defence Studies under the Faculty of Social & Management Sciences at NDA include;
Three (3) Arts or Social Science subjects.
No individual subject is named at UTME. English Language is compulsory and the other three papers can be any Arts or Social Science subjects, which is far looser than the O Level conditions above.
Direct Entry Requirement
These are the conditions you need to fulfill to gain Direct Entry admission to study Political Science and Defence Studies if you don’t intend to use UTME.
You require; Two (2) ‘A’ Level passes in Government and one other Social Science subject.
Government returns as a named requirement at Direct Entry, with History no longer offered as an alternative. The second pass is open to any Social Science subject.
JAMB Score
All candidates interested in getting admitted into NDA for the 2026/2027 session should know that to be eligible for the screening, you must have scored 180 or above in your JAMB result.
The Stricter of the Two Requirement Lists Wins
Where two requirement lines disagree, plan around the demanding one. The NDA remark asks for an O Level credit in Mathematics rather than a pass, and it names Government rather than offering History as a substitute. A candidate who meets it also meets the general line.
Government is in fact the safest subject to build on here, since it is named in the NDA remark and again at Direct Entry. Beyond that, the UTME form takes any three Arts or Social Science subjects, and NDA asks for 180 or above for the 2026/2027 session.