Student review [#21433] for Cell Biology and Genetics
at University of Lagos - UNILAG

I can’t tell what the rest of the school was like, but my experience during my Cell Biology and Genetics programme revealed the lacklustre state of infrastructure, equipment, and the academic endeavour at the University of Lagos. As a student pursuing a bachelor’s degree in a biological science course, I had expected a hands-on learning experience, but what I got disenchanted me to biology and this saddening period was a low point in my life that grew into long-term depression. When I look back on the time, I appreciate the lecturers who strove to deliver quality education within the privation they had to work and all the great personalities I encountered who helped me through the time and shaped my perspective on life. I would guess that UNILAG has an appreciable level of international recognition due to its alumni who have excelled in international academic spaces and industries. I am a proud Akokite (UNILAG alumnus pseudonym), but I wish the school wasn’t a relic of an ambitious idea of a thriving capsule for the Nigerian intelligentsia when I attended it.