The Correspondence and Open Studies Institute, University of Lagos

The Correspondence and Open Studies Institute (COSIT) is an institute of the University of Lagos, Nigeria, having been established in 1974 as a Correspondence and Open Studies Unit. The University of Lagos (UNILAG) itself was established in 1962. The University as a whole has some 13,000 regular students and well over 650 academic staff. There is, therefore, a substantial and high-quality academic and administrative set-up on which COSIT can depend in several ways. For instance, COSIT students are students of the University of Lagos except that they are non-residential. Their qualifications, moreover, are the same as the regular students since both sets of students-COSIT and regular-take the same or equivalent examinations.