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Abstract
The first Survey School in Nigeria was established in 1908 as a Departmental post-secondary school, to cater for the education of the country’s youth who could not proceed overseas for further training. But it was not until 1962 that the first Department of Surveying in a Nigerian University was established at the University of Nigeria, Enugu Campus. In 1970 the University of Lagos (UNILAG) also began the training of Surveyors by establishing a Sub-Department of Surveying in her Department of Civil Engineering. The sub-department became a full fledged department in 1973. About the same time survey training started in UNILAG, another Department of Surveying was established at the Ahmadu Bello University in Zaria, in the northern part of the country. All these departments were domiciled in the Faculty of Engineering. At present, there are eleven Universities in Nigeria, offering courses in Surveying and Geoinformatics leading to the award of Bachelors and other degrees. One common and major problem faced by all the Universities is in recruiting interested and qualified candidates as students in their respective departments. This problem is aggravated by the large number of Universities struggling to recruit limited number of available qualified candidates. Other factors contributing to this problem include the following: the very low regard and poor publicity for Surveying profession in Nigeria, perception of poor career prospects for graduates in Surveying, poor ficial yield for Surveying professionals, centralized admission process in the University and the stringent uniform requirements for all courses in the Faculty of domicile, and the physically demanding, and sometimes boring nature of some aspects of the training of Surveyors. The Department of Surveying and Geoinformatics, University of Lagos, has taken some steps to solve the problem of recruiting qualified candidates into the department. These include: organizing career talks in Secondary Schools, making admission requirements more relevant, encouraging and engineering positive publicity for the profession, and undertaking a review of the curricula, to make the course more interesting and attractive to young school leavers. The result of the efforts made at University of Lagos has generated a lot of interest in the profession amongst the students. By the 2008/2009, the Department had been able to fill its admission quota with qualified candidates, almost exclusively from those who indicated Surveying and Geoinformatics as their first choice course, in the central admission system.