Can a Part-Time Student Switch to Full-Time

To gain admission to a full-time programme, we all know you need UTME. But with a few attempts and no success in the JAMB exams, you may consider the alternatives to gaining admissions, among which is the part-time programme.

If you take the latter, you may want to know if your school will allow you to switch back to the full-time programme.

In other words, as a part-time student or if offered part-time admission, can you later cross to full-time, on school permission, so you can graduate as a full-time student. Or is there any law or arrangement to allow a part-time student to cross/switch to full-time within the same school?

You may need to ask these questions if you're worried about serving at NYSC in the end. Of course, only graduates on a full-time basis, except in a few cases, will be allowed to serve.

You may also be asking if you're just curious to know if it's possible for a school to let its part-time students cross to full-time later - maybe at 200, 300, or 400 level.

This post will answer your question and set your mind at peace after knowing what is possible and what is not.

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Universities and Colleges of Education Won't Allow Part-Time Students to Cross to Full-time

If you're admitted on a part-time basis by a university or college of education, you must be ready to complete your studies and graduate as a part-time student as both don't offer such opportunities.

Let's say you enter into a university such as FUOYE through its daily part-time or regular part-time course, the university will, till the end of your studies, retain you as a part-time student unless you decide to move completely from the part-time and obtain another UTME to cross to the full-time programme. The same is applicable to being admitted by a college such as Adeyemi College of Education but wanting to cross to its full-time.

If you consider that, you may decide to move or retain the part-time and still run the full-time especially if the courses are different.

In summary,, it's not just possible, as an internal arrangement, for a student to move from a part-time programme to full-time. The two options you're left with are either to complete the part-time programme or just abandon it, obtain another JAMB UTME and process a full-time admission.

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Polytechnics Allow Part-Time Students to Cross to Full Time

Especially if you'd entered a polytechnic for a National Diploma (ND) course on a part-time basis (particularly the daily part-time), the polytechnics will allow you to cross to a full-time course but not until you're seeking admission for the Higher National Diploma (HND).

Let me explain.

It's possible to run your ND course on a part-time basis (be it regular or daily part-time), then, while seeking HND admission, you consider the full-time option instead.

This approach has been well established to allow candidates to eventually go for NYSC. This and related conditions had been covered in my post, "Can I Serve (NYSC) with ND Part-Time Plus HND Full-Time?". Take a moment to check.

On this note, your polytechnic or any other polytechnic considering you for the HND admission will admit you for a full-time course even though your ND is on a part-time basis.

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