The American University of Nigeria (AUN) has increased new students scholarship slots to 67, as its scholarship examinations for newly accepted students for the 2016/2017 academic session hold Saturday, July 30, 2016.

Thirty-six scholarships will be awarded to candidates with the highest scores on the 2015 Joint Admissions and Matriculation (JAMB) examination, from all the 36 states, and one scholarship will be awarded to the candidate with the highest scores on JAMB UTME nationally.

Another 30 scholarships will be awarded to five candidates from each of the six geo-political regions of the country under the university’s regional scholarships programme. Winners of the JAMB-based scholarships will be selected based on results of the 2015 UTME, while the regional scholarships winners will be selected primarily based on their performance on the 2015 national scholarship examinations.

All newly accepted students into the university for the Fall 2016 Semester are eligible and invited to sit for the regional scholarships examinations. However, candidates transferring from local and foreign universities as well as direct entry candidates are ineligible to write the scholarship examinations.

The examinations will be held Port Harcourt, Enugu, Ibadan, Abuja, Kaduna and Yola.

All eligible candidates must bring with them their acceptance letter into AUN and either an international passport, national identity card, voters’ registration card, containing their photographs.

Those freshly seeking admission into AUN will need to complete an admission application form at the venue of the examination before being allowed into the testing hall for the examination, which no fee is attached.