This article is designed to help students who wish to study Biochemistry at the Faculty of Sciences at Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU).
Confirm that Biochemistry is still listed at OAU before you register for JAMB. Two waivers sit in this post and both of them loosen the general lines they follow.
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 Subject Combination
The O’level subject combination and requirements needed to study Biochemistry;
You require;
Five SSCE (5) credit passes in English Language, Chemistry, Mathematics, Physics, and Biology.
Read alone, that line names all five credits and leaves no choice at all. The waiver immediately below it changes that.
Special Requirement (Waiver) Remarks
- OAU accepts Physics or Biology.
The waiver reduces the burden by one subject. Where the general line requires both Physics and Biology, OAU accepts either one, which frees a place among the five credits.
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 Biochemistry under the Faculty of Sciences at OAU include;
Biology, Chemistry, and Physics or Mathematics
The general JAMB combination fixes Biology and Chemistry and allows a choice between Physics and Mathematics for the fourth paper.
Special Requirements (Waiver) Remarks
(2) OAU requires Chemistry, Mathematics, and either Biology or Physics.
The OAU waiver rearranges that. Chemistry and Mathematics become the fixed pair, and the choice moves to Biology or Physics, which is the opposite of the general line.
Follow the waiver, since it names the university directly and governs what the department will actually accept.
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Direct Entry Requirement
These are the conditions you need to fulfill to gain Direct Entry admission to study Biochemistry if you don’t intend to use UTME. You require;
Two (2) ‘A’ level passes chosen from Chemistry, Mathematics, Physics, and Biology.
NCE/ND/HND in related programmes plus the UTME requirements.
Direct Entry accepts any two of the four sciences at A Level. The diploma route attaches the UTME requirements, so the credits and the subject combination still apply.
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 Rewrite the Biochemistry Subject Lists
Both general lines are overridden here. At O Level the waiver accepts Physics or Biology rather than both, and in JAMB it makes Chemistry and Mathematics the fixed pair.
Chemistry is the one subject every version of the requirement keeps. Build your result and your registration around the waivers, and note that OAU asks for 200 or above in JAMB for the 2026/2027 session.