NOUN Abolishes Application Fees in Bold Drive for Inclusive, Barrier-Free Tertiary Education

The National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN) has abolished application fees for all its programmes, declaring that applying to the university for study is now free.

The historic declaration was made by the Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Uduma Oji Uduma, at the end of the university’s 127th Management Meeting held on Tuesday, November 10, 2026.

Prof. Uduma said the move reinforces NOUN’s drive for inclusiveness and its mandate to remove all barriers to accessing tertiary education.

Under the new policy, prospective students will no longer pay application fees for Undergraduate, Postgraduate Diploma and Master’s programmes.

The new policy of free admission takes immediate effect and will commence with the 2027_1 admission exercise.