In 2019, some 73.4 thousand academic employees were working at universities in Nigeria, including professors, readers, and lecturers. The faculties of basic health and health sciences had the highest teacher-student ratio. In this discipline, there were 24 students every teacher. In medicine and veterinary medicine, instead, there were six students per one teacher.
Teacher-student ratio at universities in Nigeria as of 2019, by discipline
(students per teacher)
Characteristic
Number of students per teacher
Basic medical and health sciences
24
Admnistration and management
23
Computing
23
Law
22
Education
22
Engineering and technology
21
Social sciences
21
Agriculture
19
Sciences
19
Environmental sciences
17
Arts
17
Pharmacy
11
Medicine
6
Created with Highcharts 7.2.2Number of students per teacherBasic medical and health sciencesAdmnistration and managementComputingLawEducationEngineering and technologySocial sciencesAgricultureSciencesEnvironmental sciencesArtsPharmacyMedicineVeterinary medicine
0246810121416182022242628
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