Adult Education is taught in the Faculty of Education at Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU). This page sets out the O’Level credits, the UTME combination, two Direct Entry options and the JAMB score OAU uses for screening.
The O’Level section on this course is unusually generous. Eleven subjects are listed as acceptable fillers, and a TC II is accepted as an alternative to SSCE credits altogether.
OAU offers undergraduate and postgraduate programmes across the humanities, the arts, the natural sciences, the social sciences, the medical sciences, engineering and technology.
The university runs 13 faculties and two colleges, the Postgraduate College and the College of Health Sciences, administered across more than 60 departments. It was previously associated with Loma Linda University in California.
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O’Level Subject Combination
The O’level subject combination and requirements needed to study Adult Education; You require;
Five (5) ‘O’ Level credit passes, including English Language, Mathematics, and three (3) of Literature in English, History, French, Yoruba, Igbo, Hausa, Christian Religious Studies, Islamic Studies, Geography/Physics, Economics, and Government or TC II with a pass in English Language and four (4) other subjects.
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 Adult Education under the Faculty of Education in the above Universities include;
Government/History, one (1) Social Science subject, and any other subject.
Direct Entry Requirements
These are the conditions you need to fulfil to gain Direct Entry admission to study Adult Education if you don’t intend to use UTME. You require;
- Two (2) ‘A’ Level passes.
- NCE merit in two (2) subjects.
Jamb Score
All candidates interested in getting admitted into OAU for the 2026/2027 session should know that to be eligible for the screening, you must have scored 200 or above in your JAMB result.
The Two O Level Routes Into OAU Adult Education
The first route is the standard one. Five O’Level credit passes including English Language and Mathematics, plus three subjects drawn from a long list that runs from Literature in English and History through the Nigerian languages to Economics and Government.
The second route accepts a TC II instead, with a pass in English Language and four other subjects. That is a lower bar than five credits, and it opens the course to teacher training candidates.
On the UTME side, English Language is compulsory, Government or History takes one slot, a Social Science subject takes another, and the last is open.
Direct Entry is equally relaxed. Two A level passes with no named subjects, or an NCE at merit in two subjects.
The screening threshold at OAU is 200, which is higher than most universities ask. The subject rules here are forgiving, so the JAMB score is where this application is really won.