What Does It Mean To Defer Your Admission?
Deferment is defined as the postponement of studies to a later time due to reasons that prevent you from continuing study that year.
Before you can defer your admission at the Ekiti State University or any other Nigerian university at all, you need to have accepted your admission from your JAMB portal to notify the school of your interest and acceptance of the admission, and also to prevent them from giving your admission slot to someone else.
After you have accepted your admission, you are expected to pay the acceptance fee.
What Is An Acceptance fee?
An acceptance fee is a fee levied by a financial institution for handling a bill of exchange, a document used to demand payment for products and services.
This acceptance fee payment would prove to the university that you are an interested student and therefore demand to keep your admission.
Of course, when your deferment application is accepted, you are not expected to pay school fees until the deferment period ends.
Note: this is only possible when you must have paid for the acceptance fee to keep the offered admission.
How Long Can You Defer An Admission?
Regardless, the deferment period only lasts for a standard duration of one year, anything longer than that would demand a special procedure and an even more special reason.
Specified Acceptable Reasons For Deferment Of Admission.
As stipulated, these are amongst the valid reason why you may be allowed to defer your admission for a later time:
- (a) Financial constraint
- (b) Ill-health, in which case, he must submit a Medical Report
- (c) Non-release by the employer.
- (d) Family problems
You must also note that the deferment of the admission process is peculiar to every university. You must ensure to find out the exact process to defer your admission, either from your school’s administrative personnel or from the school website.
Conclusion:
If you have more questions on deferment of admission to Ekiti State University, feel free to leave your question in the comment box below, we would either answer directly or make a whole new post on your question.
Good luck!
