Can I Change Institution After I'm Already Admitted?

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Yes, you can change institutions after being offered admission, but if you’ve already accepted the offer, you'll need to either reject it officially, use JAMB regularization, or apply for a transfer admission to switch to another institution.

A few candidates will want to change their institutions after already being admitted by some institutions. Here is the picture.

An admitted candidate to a school decides not to go to that institution, for a reason known to him. Then, he wants to change to another institution that he truly and really wants. Now, he wants to know if this is possible for him or not.

A situation like this can be very rare, yet it is possible. You may not even be on this page if you're not a victim or you have someone who is in the situation right now.

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First, let's look at a few situations that might lead to considering changing from a school that had already offered you a course to another you're just hoping for.

1. The school that admitted you were none of your choices. Of course, this is possible. Candidates chose 4 institutions during the UTME registration and even wrote or partook in the post-UTME exercises of those chosen schools. However, a different institution offered him admission. This situation was well addressed in my post, "Given Admission by A School You Didn't Choose? See Why and What To Do".
2. You've got the offer into a school before someone assured you of admission into another. This is pretty common too. A candidate has been offered admission by an institution before a brother, professor or lecturer got back to him or her that he would help into another university.
3. You'd rushed to change the institution to the university or polytechnic that offered you admission before the former school gave you admission too. This is another rear situation but it's possible. I discussed this in, "After Changing Institution, Can The Previous School Offer Admission?"
4. You got admitted and you later changed your mind because of the course, school fee, security, or the location of the school. This is not uncommon as well.

Whatever the situation, what matters here is you had been admitted, yet you want to consider the change of institution and you don't know if it's possible or how to go about this.

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You Can Still Change Institution After Being Offered Admission

Yes, it's possible. But not in all situations.

There are things to know before you start throwing yourself into the air.

1. Change of Institutions on the JAMB Portal

It is possible to change the institution directly on the JAMB portal if you have not accepted admission on JAMB CAPS. In other words, after being offered admission by JAMB, you'll be opened to options to Accept or Reject. If you haven't accepted the offer, you're so lucky and you can just change institutions right away. In other words, it'll be better to choose to Reject if you want to change to another school. 

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If you'd accepted the offer before a change of mind, your situation is a bit complicated. You will need to visit the school that offered you admission (the one you're changing from) and asks for a rejection of the admission letter from the admission office.

After this, you will submit a copy to the JAMB office and the new school that's ready to offer you space. After the official conclusion among the former school, the new school, and JAMB, you'll be allowed to change institutions and be offered admission by the new school.

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2. Change of Institution Using Regularization

If you've already accepted one offer and can't undergo the stress of visiting the concerned schools for the rejection letter, you can just use the JAMB regularization. Though there is a catch! The new school should be ready to offer you admission even though the offer on the JAMB portal is not theirs.

Yes, if the new school has offered admission on its admission portal, accept it and continue with our studies with them. Nothing is wrong with that and it's legally allowed.

As for the JAMB admission and printing of the JAMB admission letter, you'll go to the JAMB office or CBT center to register for the regularization. What this will do for you is correct the admission offer.

Once completed, you'll take the indemnity form to your new school, and they'll approve it and send it to the JAMB office for the board's approval too. After this, you'll be updated to print your JAMB admission letter in the name of the new school you regularized to.

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3. Change of Institution Through Transfer Admission

If the number one option will not work or get too complicated, especially if you've already accepted the offer, you may go for Admission by Transfer.

With this, you may need to spend your first year at the institution you're changing from before you can go for this option. Processing this is only possible for a few universities out there. You can be lucky with UNILORIN, ABU, UNN, UNIOSUN, LAUTECH, etc.

Transfer admission allows an undergraduate student of a university to move from his or her present university to another. For example, a 200-level student of Ladoke Akintola University may seek transfer admission to the University of Ilorin.

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