THE IMPACT OF INCREASED TUITION FEES ON STUDENTS' ENROLMENT AMONG STUDENTS IN ADEYEMI FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF EDUCATION, ONDO

ABSTRACT This study examined the impact of increased tuition feel on students’ enrolment among students in Adeyemi Federal University of Education, Ondo. Descriptive survey research design was used to carry owl the research. One hundred (100) respondents were randomly selected selected across ten (10) departments in various z'chools in Adeyemi Federal University of Education, Ondo. Simple random sampling technique was used to select the sample for the study. The data collected from the respondent was analysed using descriptive and inferential statistics. Findings from the study revealed that tuition fees in the college increases yearly and this was unbearable for student of less privilege to pay and this incFease has discourage many freshmen from getting ’admitted into the câllege and resulting in those already in the college to droop out of the school. Alto, it was revealed that, increase in the tuition fee seriously affect the enrolment of students into the institution as a result makes many students to forfeit the admission offered to them by the school, discourage the less priviledge students of going to school, leads to drop out of Some students struggling to send themselves to school, causes anxiety in students and dist'ract them from concentrating on their academics and cause student to miss classes so as to do extra job in order to pay, their school fees. It was therefore recommended that tuiti’on fees s'hould be reduced’to beares‘t minimum so as to give room for students of low socio-economic status to be able to enroll in the institution. Atso, government should in their part make provision for ade'quate infrastructures, facilities needed for smooth operations of school syst'em aS well as make‘effort in providing scholarship to deseFving students.