In the academic year 2018/2019, Nigerian universities counted 1.8 million undergraduate students and 242 thousand postgraduate students. Among master students, women accounted for 38 percent of the total, while the female percentage among bachelor students was 44 percent.
Nigeria's largest university is the National Open University of Nigeria, which had over half million students as of 2019.
Number of university students in Nigeria in the 2018/2019 academic session, by gender and course of study
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