Overview

Key facts:

The Special Education programme is offered at the University Of Ibadan.
The current Department of Special Education may be described generally as an academic arena where teaching and research are actively pursued as well as the application of therapeutic strategies in alleviating human suffering.
The major areas of specialization in the Department include Education of the Gifted and Talented, Education for the Mentally Retarded, Education for the Learning Disabled, Education for the Hearing Impaired, Education for the Visually Impaired and Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology Unit.
The Department offers degree programmes for the award of Bachelor of Education Degree in Special Education which could be combine with a teaching subject from Faculties of Arts, Science and Social Sciences. The students have the choice of specializing in any unit areas specified above. At postgraduate level, the students can be specialize in any unit area of their choice but without teaching subjects.

Programme Structure

Besides teaching and research, the Department also provides community services in form of workshops for teachers, teaching and assessing children and adults with learning difficulties and testing persons with speech and hearing problems. The Department currently has twelve Lecturers three of which are in the status of Professor.

Key information

Duration

Full-time
- 24 months

Start dates & application deadlines

Starting 2026-08-21 00:00:00

Application deadline not specified.

Language

English

Delivered

On Campus

Campus Location

Ibadan, Nigeria

Disciplines

Special Education

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Academic requirements

We are not aware of any specific GRE, GMAT or GPA grading score requirements for this programme.

English requirements

We are not aware of any English requirements for this programme.

Other requirements

General requirements

Candidates for admission to higher degree programmes shall normally be graduates of the University of Ibadan or other Universities/Institutions recognised by the Senate. Admission shall be made by the Postgraduate College on the recommendation of the appropriate Faculty Postgraduate Committee.
Candidates without any previous higher degrees in the relevant discipline may be admitted only to either the Degree of Master or the Professional Degree of Master.
Candidates with recognised “Research Higher” Degree in the relevant discipline may be admitted to the M.Phil or Ph.D. degree programmes as appropriate, on the recommendation of the appropriate Faculty Postgraduate Committee.
Where, in respect of an otherwise eligible candidate with a higher degree, a firm recommendation for admission to the Ph.D. degree programme cannot be made, a Faculty may recommend that a candidate be admitted provisionally to the programme pending an assessment report.

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Tuition Fees

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1500 USD / year

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