JAMB And WAEC Subject Combination for Accountancy / Accounting

What are the JAMB subject combination for Accountancy / Accounting for 2023/2024? If you are really interested in knowing the JAMB as well the O level (WAEC) subject combination required to study Accountancy / Accounting under the faculty of Administration then it may please you to know that we have covered JAMB and WAEC subject combination for Accountancy / Accounting here in this post you are currently reading.

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To make this official, this is a notice to inform all JAMB and WAEC candidates who will be sitting for the upcoming JAMB examination that JAMB subject combination for Accountancy / Accounting has been released by the management of the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB).

Keep in mind that the JAMB subject combinations as well as the o level (WAEC) requirements mentioned on this post are only meant for Accountancy / Accounting under the faculty of Administration.

JAMB Subject Combination For Accountancy / Accounting

The required JAMB subject subject combination for Accountancy / Accounting are:

Mathematics, Economics plus any Social Science subject.

Special Requirements (Waiver) Remarks

(i) OAU requires Principle of Account not Commerce

(ii) BSU requires Economics.

(iii) UNICAL and IGBINEDION accept Commerce in lieu of Economics.

(iv) UNICAL does not accept CRK.

(v) OOU does not insist on Economics.

(vi) UNILAG accepts Economics, Mathematics and any Science, Social Science or Arts subject.

(vii) AUN requires Mathematics, plus any other subjects from the following; Economics, Geography, Government, History, Literature in English, Further Mathematics, Technical Drawing, Visual Arts, Computer Studies, Information Technology, Civics, Environmental Science, Biology, Physics, Chemistry and French.

(viii)EVANGEL accepts Principles of Accounts in lieu of Mathematics.

WAEC (O Level) Subject Requirements For Accountancy / Accounting

The list of compulsory WAEC subjects required for Accountancy / Accounting under the faculty of are as follows:

Five SSCE credit passes including English Language, Mathematics, Economics and any other two relevant subjects.
For NBC holders, the other two relevant subjects could be from any of Accounting, Principles of Accounts, Commerce, office Practice and Secretarial Duties.

Special Requirements (Waiver) Remarks

(i) UNIUYO requires credit in Economics.

(ii) UNIPORT does not accept commercial subjects except Financial Accounting or Business.

(iii) UNILAG requires five ‘O’ level credits to include English language, Mathematics, Economics and any other Science, Social Science or Arts subject.

(iv) UNIPORT does not accept office Practice and Secretarial Studies.

(v) BIU accepts credit/merit in English language and Mathematics at TC II as ‘O’/level equivalent.

(vi) OOU requires ‘O’ level credits in any 3 of Accounting, Business Methods, Commerce, Economics, Statistics, Government and Geography. IRK/CRK, Yoruba and History.

(vii) PLASU and UNICAL accept Commerce in place of Economics.

(viii) AUN requires Five ‘O’ level credit passes including English Language, Mathematics, and any other three subjects from the following; Economics, Geography, Government, History, Literature in English, Further Mathematics, Technical Drawing, Visual Arts, Computer Studies, Information Technology, Civics, Environmental Science, Biology, Physics, Chemistry and French. AUN does not accept credit passes in the following; Agriculture, Food and Nutrition, Home Economics, Home Craft, Home management, Physical Education, Physical and Health Education, Music, Commerce, Accounting, Financial Accounting, Book keeping, Islamic History, Religious Studies, Tajweed, Library Studies, Diction, Kiswahili, Igbo, Hausa, Yoruba, Arabic, Turkish, Study skills.

(ix) UNN requires Five O’ level credit passes to include English Language, Mathematics Economics and any other two relevant subjects. For NBC holders, the other two relevant subjects could be from any of Accounting, Principles of Accounts,Commerce, office Practice and Secretarial Duties.

(x) EVANGEL- Economics is not compulsory but accepts any three relevant subjects.

(xi) UNIJOS in addition to the UTME requirements requires two credit passes in any of Business Studies, Commerce, Government, Principle of Accounts, Geography and Biology.

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