2023 ABUAD Prizes, Scholarship, and Awards Categories:

Afe Babalola University, Ado-Ekiti (ABUAD), hereby gives notice that the following scholarships designed to promote access, quality, equity, and relevance in education continue in the 2023/2024 academic session and beyond as instituted since the 2014/2015 academic session. In addition to the this, ABUAD shall provide a sum of one hundred thousand Naira to all students including students from low income households to support their feeding in term of provision for for food. Click here to see the 2023 ABUAD Prizes, Scholarship and Awards Edition

(a)               Prospective Indigent Students

  • An indigent applicant who has at least six (6) A1 - B3 in WAEC or NECO and who qualifies in his chosen course may apply for an ABUAD scholarship.
  • The applicant shall be entitled to a scholarship for free tuition and free accommodation.
  • The applicant shall provide evidence of financial incapacity.
  • The applicant must be industrious and disciplined.
  • The applicant must abstain completely from drugs and alcohol
  • The applicant must not be a cultist and must not belong to any group or club of cultists.

 (b)                Undergraduates in ABUAD

The following scholarships are available for undergraduate students in the university:

  • Students with 5.0 CGPA and above – N500,000 each
  • Students with 4.75 – 4.99 CGPA – N200,000 each
  • Students with 4.75 CGPA – N100,000 each
  • Merit awards – N100,000 each
  • Others include:
    • Most disciplined student 2022
    • Best dressed student 2022
    • Outstanding student leader 2022
    • Sports man of the year 2022
    • Sports woman of the year 2022
    • Most tech savvy of the year 2022
    • Most innovative student of the year 2022
    • Cleanest hostel user (Male and Female) 2022

 (c)    ABUAD Undergraduates who lose parents or guardians while studying in the university

  • Such student shall enjoy full scholarship (as the university has done in the past)

(d)     Prospective students who choose to study Agriculture in ABUAD

  • 75% reduction in tuition fee
  • Work and study opportunity to earn extra money for services rendered on the farm, in the cafeteria, factory, library, and hostel.
  • Provision for financial assistance to graduates to facilitate self-employment

(e)   Parents who have 2 or more students in ABUAD

  • Parents who have more than one child shall be entitled to a 25% discount on tuition fee.

(f)  Staff who have biological children studying in ABUAD

  • Staff who have biological children studying in ABUAD shall be entitled to a 40% discount on tuition fee.

 (g)    ABUAD Lecturers and potential Lecturers

  • Full payment of salary to lecturers with permission to attend post-graduate courses in Nigerian universities.
  • Financial assistance to lecturers who want to study abroad
  • Financial support to lecturers to attend conferences
  • Financial assistance to support and undertake research

(h) Merit Awards

  • For best dressed lecturer, 2022
  • Most disciplined lecturer, 2022
  • Lecturer of the year, 2022
  • Most engaged lecturer, 2022
  • Most punctual lecturer, 2022
  • Most persevering lecturer, 2022
  • Most outstanding non-teaching staff, 2022
  • Most dutiful non-teaching staff, 2022.

We congratulate in advance, the prospective winners of these prizes, awards, and scholarships!

Signed

Lady Christie Oluborode,MNIM

Registrar and Secretary to the Council