UNIT COST AND STUDENTS’ ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE

Abstract

This study investigated through empirical methods the influence of unit cost of university education on students’ academic performance, the ‘ex post facto’ research design, using seven randomly selected faculties out of eleven faculties in the university.  The statistical tools used include the Person Product Moment Correlation, Analysis of Variance, Linear Regression, Multiple Regressions.  A level of significance of 0.05 was chosen contrary to expectation, findings revealed a non-significant influence of unit cost of university education on students academic performance.  But there were significant differences in students’ academic performance in the sampled faculties, even though there were no significant differences in the unit cost of education in these faculties.  The significant difference in students’ academic performance among faculties can be attributed to their resource situation and socio-economic factors.  Hence, the study recommended public support for university education so as to improve both the learning situation and the students’ academic performance.