This article is designed to help students who wish to study Mechanical Engineering under the Faculty of Engineering, Environment, and Technology at Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU).
Mechanical Engineering is one of the more tightly specified courses at OAU, and there is very little room to improvise with your subjects. Read each section below against your own result before you commit to it on your JAMB form.
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About Obafemi Awolowo University
Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), formerly known as the University of Ife, is a federal government-owned and operated Nigerian university. The university is in the ancient city of Ile-Ife, Osun State, Nigeria.
Obafemi Awolowo University offers undergraduate and postgraduate programs in fields of 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 Mechanical Engineering; You require;
Five (5) SSC credit passes to include Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics, English Language, and any other Science subject.
Notice that all five credits are effectively dictated. Four subjects are named outright, and the fifth must still come from the sciences. There is no free slot here for an arts or commercial subject to make up the number.
Jamb Subject Combination
In UTME, the English Language is compulsory for this course. The three (3) other JAMB UTME subjects needed to study Mechanical Engineering under the Faculty of Engineering, Environment & Technology at OAU are listed below.
Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry
The JAMB combination offers no alternatives at all. Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry are fixed, and with English Language that accounts for all four subjects. Any other selection will not match the department and your application will fail at screening.
Direct Entry Requirement
These are the conditions you need to fulfil to gain Direct Entry admission to study Mechanical Engineering if you don’t intend to use UTME. You require;
- Two (2) ‘A’ level passes from Chemistry, Physics, and Mathematics.
- ND upper credit, NCE technical, and HND in Mech. Engineering.
The Direct Entry list draws on the same three sciences. Two A Level passes must come from Chemistry, Physics and Mathematics, while the second route recognises technical qualifications earned in Mechanical Engineering itself.
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.
A Course With No Spare Subject Slots
Mechanical Engineering at OAU asks the same three sciences of you at every stage. Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry carry the O Level list, make up the entire JAMB combination, and supply the two passes accepted at Direct Entry.
That leaves nothing to negotiate. Build your result around those three subjects, add English Language and one further science, and reach at least 200 in JAMB to be invited to OAU screening.