Dear ,

OFFER OF PROVISIONAL ADMISSION

Following your performance at the recent screening interview, I have the pleasure to inform you that you have been offered provisional admission to read at level in the Department of , College of at this University. This provisional admission is subject to payment of the requisite non-refundable commitment fee within the time stipulated in this letter.

Please accept my congratulations.

Joseph Ayo Babalola University is a private University, licensed by the Federal Government of Nigeria as a degree awarding institution. The proprietors of the University are concerned with the spiritual, moral and academic development of students of the University, bearing in mind the decadence that now pervades most of the nation’s tertiary institutions. To assist in achieving these objectives, the proprietors have declared the University a fully residential institution and have recruited God-fearing staff who would serve in loco parentis. Please note that the University adopts zero-tolerance for indiscipline and cultism.

In furtherance of the same objective, the University adopts a pay as you eat system within the University’s Cafeteria. Cooking in the hostels and eating of food in unhygienic places are prohibited.

I     FEES
The Schedule of fees is contained on the University website at  www.jabu.edu.ng/fees.html

Note
All fresh students will pay N2, 000.00 for registration materials.

 II          MODE OF PAYMENT
If you accept this offer, you will be required to pay a non-refundable commitment fee of N100, 000.00 on or before Friday, 21st August, 2009. The sum is part of the fees. On resumption, you will be required to pay the balance of your fees before the commencement of registration on 5th October, 2009.

Fees are payable into Joseph Ayo Babalola University WEMA Bank Account No. 1651173504618. Payment slips for such payments must be submitted to the Bursary for reconciliation and preparation of official receipts. Parents are advised to avoid giving school fees to their wards, or paying fees into their ward’s personal account.     

III.        MEALS
A sum of between N60- N70, 000.00 per session is recommended as modest cost of meals per semester. To ensure that money recommended and provided by parents is not wasted on other frivolities, thereby leaving students to starve towards the end of the semester, parents are encouraged to lodge such monies in the Bursary, which will issue periodic meal tickets to students. The tickets will be presented to caterers for cafeteria services. Used tickets will be presented to the Bursary by the caterers for reimbursement.

IV.       BOOKS
To assist parents to equip their children/wards financially to purchase recommended textbooks, the University recommends financial provisions of N35,000.00 for Science based programmes and N30,000.00 for non-science based programmes.

Recommended books will be available for purchase at the University Bookshop at very competitive prices. This arrangement is to protect students from undertaking avoidable risky and dangerous journeys to towns and cities to purchase books.

REGISTRATION

Registration materials include

1. Procedure for Registration

2. Student Handbook

3. Biodata Registration Form

4. Course Registration Form

5. OMR Registration Form to capture relevant information on students for the University’s computerized record.

6. Instruction booklet for completing the OMR Forms

7. Student Identity Card (to be provided after completion of Registration)

8. Library Registration Form.

9. Medical Test Form.

As indicated above, the Registration package, containing the above registration materials, are obtainable from the Registry on presentation of a Bursary receipt as evidence of payment of N2,000.00

ACADEMIC AND RELIGIOUS ACTIVITIES

Joseph Ayo Babalola University is a faith-based University. It gives emphasis to both academic and spiritual development of its students and consequently their attendances in classes and religious worships are made mandatory.

Therefore, in addition to the procurement of textbooks, each student is expected to bring to the registration centre for sighting, a copy each of the Holy Bible and Christ Apostolic Church Gospel Hymn Book. The Sunday School booklet is always available for sale on Campus.

DRESS CODE

The University insists on decent and proper dress code for students.
Male students are expected to dress formally preferably in conventional suit, French suit or minimally in trousers, tucked-in shirt with tie from 8.00am to 5.00pm. Threadbare jeans, boxers and T-shirts are not allowed during the period. Male students are expected to have low hair cut and be clean shaven always.

Female students are expected to wear decent dresses that honour womanhood, with high neck-line, reaching below the knee. Multi-colour hair-do is not allowed.
Decent native attires with head gear, hand bags and cap to match are allowed.

Parents are therefore requested to equip their wards with dresses that meet the University’s dress code. Students who wear offending dresses and hair style will be sanctioned and the offending dresses confiscated. Habitual offender will face rustication or dismissal as the case may be.

RESUMPTION

New students are expected to report for registration on Monday, 5th October, 2009. Only students with evidence of payment of full fees will be registered for classes and checked into halls of residence.

Students are advised to arrive on campus between 8.30 am and 4.00 pm each day to ensure that they have available, Registry, Bursary and Hall of Residence staff, to attend to them and provide necessary welcome to Campus.

REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS

Students are expected to bring along with them the following items:

1. Ten passport photographs.

2. Original and photocopies of credentials claimed for admission.

3. Letter of reference from clergy/legal practitioner/senior Civil Servant.

4. Parent’s /guardian’s letter of undertaking of student’s good behaviour.

CONCLUSION

On behalf of the Vice Chancellor, I congratulate you, once again, on your admission to Joseph Ayo Babalola University. You have made the right choice; we promise you a spiritually and academically rewarding stay on Campus.

Yours faithfully,

 
BARR. WALE ADERIBIGBE
Registrar