The information on ground shows that over Fourteen Thousand students chose the University as their preferred choice while the university’s quota is about four Thousand plus.
According to statistics, as at 2011, the university’s quota was just 1,250 One Thousand Two Hundred and Fifty Students which the university was unable to exhaust because of the low interest of students in choosing to study in the university which was seen as a glorified secondary school.
It is also notable to say that the quota of the university started appreciating since the inception of Prof. Hilary Odo Edeoga as the Forth Vice Chancellor of the University on March 1st, 2011. The increase in the admission of students was born out of the zeal of the Vice Chancellor to rebrand the university and move it to international standard. Edeoga achieved this by first creating an enabling studying environment which includes
- Building Ten ultra-modern hostels fully equipped with constant light and water supply within his 1st year in office through Internally Generated Revenue (IGR).
- Took students’ welfare as his utmost priority.
- Acquiring Kia Rio and Hyundai saloon cars 45 in number to reduce the transport fare and ease transportation from the Campus to The Town.
- Introduction of many Courses in the University.
- Tackling infrastructural deficit the university suffered since it was established.
Today, MOUAU is among the Nigerian Universities to reckon with, every parent wants their children to study in MOUAU because of the standard set by Prof Edeoga who is not yet tired with his zeal to give the University a good name.
