This article is designed to help students who wish to study Applied Geophysics at the Faculty of Sciences at Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU).
Confirm that Applied Geophysics is still listed at OAU before you register for JAMB. Two waivers sit in this post and each one tightens the general line it follows.
Obafemi Awolowo University offers undergraduate and postgraduate programmes in specialization spanning the humanities, the arts, the natural sciences, the social sciences, the medical sciences, engineering, and technology.
The university has 13 faculties and two colleges, the Postgraduate College and the College of Health Sciences, administered in more than 60 departments. It was previously associated with Loma Linda University in California, USA.
O’Level Subjects Combination
The O’level subject combination and requirements needed to study Applied Geophysics; You require;
Five (5) SSC credit passes, including English Language, Mathematics, Physics, and Chemistry/Biology.
The general line names four subjects and treats Chemistry and Biology as alternatives, which leaves one credit open.
Special Consideration (Waiver) Remarks
- OAU requires five ‘O’ level credit passes in English Language, Chemistry, Biology/Further Mathematics, Mathematics, and Physics
The waiver is stricter. Chemistry becomes compulsory in its own right, and the alternative moves to Biology or Further Mathematics, which fills all five places.
Follow the waiver, since it names the university directly and leaves no open credit at all.
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 Applied Geophysics under the Faculty of Sciences at OAU include;
Physics, Chemistry, Biology, and Mathematics.
The JAMB line lists four subjects beside the compulsory English Language, which is one more than the three papers actually registered. Treat Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics as the core and confirm the fourth with the school.
Direct Entry Requirements
These are the conditions you need to fulfill to gain Direct Entry admission to study Applied Geophysics if you don’t intend to use UTME. You require;
‘A’ level passes in Chemistry and Physics or Mathematics
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Special Consideration (Waiver) Remarks
- OAU requires ‘A’ level passes in Chemistry, Physics, and Mathematics
- OAU accepts HND upper credit in Mining Engineering plus the UTME requirements.
The Direct Entry waiver adds Mathematics to the general pairing, so Chemistry, Physics and Mathematics are all expected at A Level rather than two of them.
It also opens a diploma route, accepting an HND at upper credit in Mining Engineering with the UTME requirements attached.
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.
How the OAU Waivers Tighten Applied Geophysics Entry
Both waivers ask for more than the lines above them. At O Level all five credits become named subjects, and at Direct Entry three A Level passes are expected rather than two.
Chemistry, Physics and Mathematics are the subjects that appear in every version of the requirement. An HND at upper credit in Mining Engineering is the one alternative route, and OAU asks for 200 or above in JAMB for the 2026/2027 session.