By our Reporter
The National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN) has abolished application fees for all its academic programmes in a move aimed at making tertiary education more accessible and inclusive.
The university’s Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Uduma Oji Uduma, announced the policy at the end of the institution’s 127th Management Meeting held on Tuesday, November 10, 2026.
Under the new policy, prospective students seeking admission into undergraduate, Postgraduate Diploma and master’s programmes will no longer be required to pay application fees.
Prof. Uduma said the decision reinforced the university’s commitment to inclusiveness and its mandate to remove barriers that prevent Nigerians from accessing tertiary education.
The policy takes immediate effect and will be implemented from the 2027_1 admission exercise.
The development is expected to ease the financial burden on prospective students and widen access to higher education through the university’s open and distance learning system.
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