Admission Requirements:

The admission requirement for MSc in Microbiology is a first or second class honours degree in Microbiology from Ahmadu Bello University or any other recognized University.All MSc students are required to take postgraduate courses.

All candidates admitted into postgraduate programmes in the Department must have a minimum of credit pass at O' level in Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Mathematics and English language.

Graduation Requirements

(a). Course Work: All M.Sc. and Ph.D. candidates are expected to do course work and must earned a minimum of 24 and 54 credit units respectively before graduation

(b). Research:All M.Sc. and Ph.D. candidates are expected to carry out research work and produce a thesis and dissertation respectively before graduation.

(c). Seminar/Examination: M.Sc. candidates are expected to present at least 3 seminars while Ph.D. candidateswill present 4 seminars. At the end of their research work they will be subjected to internal and external examinations to defend their theses and dissertations respectively.